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ELECTIONS
Battle lines drawn for local elections
By Martin Ford | 03 April 2024
Rows over levelling up have dominated the opening clashes as campaigning kicked off for next mont...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Council chiefs receive cyber espionage warnings
By Mark Conrad | 03 April 2024
Council chiefs have been warned their email accounts, phones and computers will ‘almost certainly...
COUNCILLORS
'Business as usual' for Lancashire councillors despite resignations
By Mark Conrad | 02 April 2024
Councillors in Lancashire have insisted it will be ‘business as usual’ despite 20 resignations in...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Left and behind: women at work
By Sarah Longlands | 02 April 2024
Building gender equality and diversity into plans for economic growth has benefits for everyone, ...
ELECTIONS
Pre-elections: steering a path through comms
By Andy Allsopp | 28 March 2024
Andy Allsopp looks at the need for careful judgement from council communicators during the pre-el...
DEVOLUTION
Parties draw battlelines for local elections
By Martin Ford | 28 March 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given a speech in Dudley today following campaign launches by ...
ELECTIONS
Elections on cyber alert
By Mark Conrad | 26 March 2024
Ministers have warned this year’s local and national elections are 'not business as usual’ – as c...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Ready for a bright new dawn?
By Mike Emmerich | 26 March 2024
Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture represented a clear shift away from New Labour towards an active stat...
FINANCE
Retrograde is no way to fund financial recovery
By Rob Whiteman CBE | 26 March 2024
If councils call out the Government for glossing over the facts, they must ensure terms such as b...
SOLACE
Elections show the organisation at its 'one council' best
By Kathy O’Leary | 26 March 2024
Kathy O' Leary says: 'As both pollsters and returning officers would agree, success in elections ...
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