Covid

By Dan Corry | 15 April 2020

How to withdraw from the special and unprecedented COVID-19 emergency measures is a really comple...

SOCIAL VALUE

Councils' commissioning must boost communities says report

By Ann McGauran | 15 April 2020

The public sector should adopt Community Value Charters as a standardised way of evaluating socia...

SKILLS

Helping local people gain new jobs and skills during the COVID-19 shutdown

By George Duggins | 15 April 2020

West Midlands Combined Authority has launched a COVID-19 support website to help people who want ...

FINANCE

Looking beyond the lockdown

By Michael Burton | 15 April 2020

We may be in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, but what will happen to public finances when we...

FINANCE

We are going to need the right resources

By Adele Taylor | 15 April 2020

Adele Taylor is proud of local government's response to coronavirus - but the financial plans wil...

Expertise is at the end of a phone

By Matthew Jones | 15 April 2020

Penna's Matthew Jones is inspired by the work of local authorities in this time of crisis.

SOCIAL CARE

The care costs that will endure

By Nick Clarke | 15 April 2020

Nick Clarke says the £1.6bn announced by the Government is unlikely to get close to the cost of C...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

After COVID-19 will local government finally get the resources it needs?

By Ben Page | 15 April 2020

Local government will seem to cope with whatever gets thrown at it - both its great strength, and...

SOCIAL CARE

Leadership in a time of crisis

By Heather Jameson | 15 April 2020

As councils across the country deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Surrey CC chi...

THIRD SECTOR

We have an opportunity to re-boot and take stock

By Gill Kneller | 15 April 2020

Local authorities have by necessity become far more introspective than ever before as they've bee...

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