Elections

By Henry Kippin | 22 April 2024

If the UK wants to emerge from its ‘odd decade’ into a better place, it must use devolution to bo...

WHITEHALL

Ministers in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

By Heather Jameson | 16 April 2024

The letter on councils’ productivity, sent by local government minister Simon Hoare this week, bo...

4 wheel drive woman on... voting

16 April 2024

Gosh, aren’t elections complicated? I thought you just had to pop up to the polling station and s...

BUSINESS

Oflog should be handed audit oversight, MPs told

By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024

The Office for Local Government (Oflog) should be handed oversight of England’s broken audit regi...

ELECTIONS

Today's choices, tomorrow's impact

By Simon Kaye | 15 April 2024

May’s elections will be extremely consequential for the local government sector, and the impact o...

WHITEHALL

Clark: Tories and Labour unwilling to address SEND crisis

By Paul Marinko | 15 April 2024

Labour and the Conservatives have been accused of an ‘unwillingness’ to confront the crisis in sp...

LEGAL

Rayner to be investigated by police after electoral law accusations

By Dan Peters | 15 April 2024

Police have launched an investigation into whether Labour’s shadow local government secretary Ang...

WHITEHALL

Five million could be disenfranchised by voter ID, polling finds

By Dan Peters | 11 April 2024

Five million voters could be disenfranchised by the Government’s new voter ID rules at the Genera...

PLANNING

Making strategic spatial planning successful

11 April 2024

In Localis’s new essay collection, Catriona Riddell looks at developing agreement on housing supp...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Labour's local vision for growth

By Adam Fineberg | 08 April 2024

Adam Fineberg says Labour’s new localist Industrial Strategy is a manifesto aimed at reaping the ...

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Director of Housing Luton Council

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Brighter Futures for Children is looking for a visionary leader to drive transformation and improvement in children's services at a pivotal time. Apply for this job

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