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TRANSFORMATION

Learning from others

By Emmet Regan | 09 March 2021

In a series of articles over the coming months, Emmet Regan will look at what public leaders can...

FINANCE

A tale of two Budgets?

By Heather Jameson | 09 March 2021

While the Budget delivered an economic quick fix, critics have highlighted its silence on support...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Unfinished business

By Jonathan Carr-West | 09 March 2021

The vision in Budget 2021 focused on a global, green, high tech economy, ‘but there was no sign o...

COUNCIL TAX

Under pressure from many directions

By Michael Burton | 09 March 2021

Last week’s Budget made optimistic assumptions about post-pandemic costs that could mean cuts in ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

The problem with polls

By Peter Stanyon | 09 March 2021

Peter Stanyon outlines the risks and pressures Super Thursday poses to a ‘creaking electoral syst...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Creating a coherent framework for the residual COVID challenges

By John O’Brien | 09 March 2021

Councils' voice in, for example, the discussion about the future organisation of public health ne...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Electoral workers should get the jab

By Ingrid Koehler | 09 March 2021

Vaccination would vastly increase the safety and confidence of poll workers and reduce the likeli...

DIGITAL

Taking the opportunity to digitally 'level up'

09 March 2021

Glen Ocsko says councils should take a digital-first approach to maximise the benefits of the Tow...

FINANCE

Councils left seriously underfunded, NAO finds

By Michael Burton | 08 March 2021

Coronavirus has left local authorities seriously underfunded and facing budget cuts unless the Go...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

North Northamptonshire to 'do the boring well'

By Martin Ford | 08 March 2021

Coronavirus has tempered expectations as North Northamptonshire Council prepares for launch.