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THIRD SECTOR

Local authorities can help make mutual aid a positive legacy of COVID-19

By John Copps | 12 May 2020

John Copps argues that local authorities should encourage and promote the sustainability of mutua...

BUSINESS

Warning over coronavirus and commercial investment cocktail

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

Worried finance chiefs have warned some councils that invested in commercial property have been p...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Transformation delivers flexibility in a crisis

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Craig Cusack and  Rob Powell talk to Ann McGauran about how Warwickshire CC’s transformation prog...

WHITEHALL

Shielding improvements on agenda for LGA and Whitehall

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

The Local Government Association is working with Whitehall to improve the support system for the ...

WHITEHALL

Unite expected to urge pay offer rejection

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

Trade union Unite is expected to recommend that its members reject the employers ‘final’ 2.75% pa...

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY

Questioning the quantum

By Rob Whiteman | 11 May 2020

The ‘business as usual’ funding envelope is not enough in a time of emergency. Rob Whiteman advoc...

COMMUNICATIONS

Twitter or bitter?

By Donna Ball | 11 May 2020

Senior local government officer Donna Ball says that during the pandemic she has had to block agg...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

COVID-19 - Community ownership should play a key role in local recovery

By Andrew Laird | 11 May 2020

As we look to emerge from this crisis, supporting communities to take over ownership of local ass...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Councils call for access to data for effective contact tracing

By Laura Sharman | 11 May 2020

Crucial data must be shared with councils in order for effective contact tracing to take place, t...

SOCIAL CARE

ONS - COVID-19 death rates significantly higher for social care workers

By Ann McGauran | 11 May 2020

Men and women working in social care both have significantly raised rates of death involving COVI...