Data

By Mark Rogers | 23 January 2025

Mark Rogers offers a set of six key indicators he believes can help local authority team leaders ...

AI

Councils risk missing out on the transformative potential of AI

By Leo Hanna | 21 January 2025

Central government must recognise the importance of local government in their plans for AI-assist...

DEVOLUTION

Start using place-based data co-produced with citizens

By Saffron Woodcraft | 18 December 2024

If the new devolution agenda is to work, local government will need new data and evidence about l...

Harnessing AI's full potential

By Joanna Bouloux | 17 December 2024

Councils are increasingly using AI, and while there are many risks this should not deter them fro...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Call for change after Sara Sharif murder

By Dan Peters | 12 December 2024

Some 485 children in England died or were seriously harmed by abuse or neglect in a year, a repor...

COMMUNITY SAFETY

Unitaries united against crime

By John Tizard | 11 December 2024

John Tizard says he is determined to work closely with the three unitaries in Bedfordshire, where...

LEISURE

Putting our customers first

By Joseph Rham | 10 December 2024

GLL has achieved some remarkable results through a customer-focused approach based on understandi...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Tackling net zero knowledge gaps

By Ryan O'Neill | 26 November 2024

Ryan O’Neill looks at how to bridge the gap between confidence and capability on the pathway to N...

DATA

Councils 'need to do better' on data breaches

By Martin Ford | 28 October 2024

Information Commissioner John Edwards has told councils they ‘need to do better’ when handling pe...

AI

Opinion: AI is changing the world - the public sector should take advantage

By Seb Barker | 28 October 2024

The sector needs more specialised procurement regimes operating in a nimbler and smarter way so t...

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