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CLIMATE CHANGE

Wood-burning stoves and toxic air: what CANZ be done?

By Jason Torrance | 21 March 2023

The starkest message in a recent Defra report was that the biggest source of particulate pollutio...

WHITEHALL

Pension changes could ease recruitment pressure

By Heather Jameson | 21 March 2023

Changes to the pension rules could ease the pressure on senior recruitment in local government, s...

HEALTH

Future Forum: ICSs yet to reach full potential

By Martin Ford | 17 March 2023

Integrated Care Systems (ICS) are not yet reaching their full potential, The MJ's Future Forum ha...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Budget 2023: The promises made now call for action to benefit communities

By Graham Duxbury | 16 March 2023

The chancellor promised to give communities more control over their economic destiny, and this no...

HEALTH

Why our future is small, nimble and digital

By Professor Donna Hall | 14 March 2023

Professor Donna Hall urges councils to be more radical in their thinking by reimagining their fut...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Launching a hyper-radical public sector

By Nick Kilby | 14 March 2023

The local public sector cannot keep going as it is and it is time to think bigger, move faster an...

COMMUNITIES

Public libraries: the local levelling up machines

By Diana Edmonds MBE | 14 March 2023

Public libraries have increased their support for those struggling with the cost of living crisis...

HEALTH

We need to talk about asylum's local impact

By Heather Jameson | 14 March 2023

The impact of the asylum issue is local, says Heather Jameson. 'And no matter what your political...

HEALTH

Key to levelling up health and wealth

By Gwen Nightingale | 07 March 2023

The Health Foundation is funding a £1.6m programme to support combined authorities to make the mo...

WHITEHALL

Expert warning over public health levelling up target

By Ann McGauran | 06 March 2023

The Government’s ambitious public health levelling up mission is impossible to meet by its 2035 d...