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PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Talking Total Place
By Helen Bailey | 30 July 2025
Helen Bailey reflects on the first iteration of Total Place, and says it is in the cracks between government policies and funding streams that the creativity of the approach makes its biggest impact.
GOVERNANCE
Clampdown on committees
By Kathy O'Leary | 09 July 2025
Kathy O’Leary questions the thinking behind the abolition of the committee system
COHESION
After the riots
By Martin Ford | 08 July 2025
A session at last week’s LGA conference in Liverpool heard insights from one place impacted by la...
LGA CONFERENCE
Asylum minister admits information sharing 'no longer fit for purpose'
By Martin Ford | 07 July 2025
A Home Office minister has pledged to be more open with councils after agreeing the department’s ...
LGA CONFERENCE
Proud to serve the sector
By Louise Gittins | 03 July 2025
Writing in LGA Conference week, newly re-elected chair Cllr Louise Gittins reflects on the Govern...
LGA CONFERENCE
Central and local government will transform the country for the better
By Georgia Gould | 03 July 2025
Writing in the week of the LGA Conference, Jim McMahon and Georgia Gould say this government was ...
LGA CONFERENCE
Rayner in bid to purge red tape
By Martin Ford | 03 July 2025
The Government is to review councils’ statutory responsibilities and merge funding pots in a bid ...
LGA CONFERENCE
London funding boost 'politically indefensible'
By Martin Ford | 02 July 2025
Any funding reform that resulted in more money going to London boroughs would be ‘politically ind...
LGA CONFERENCE
Reform doubles down in 'blob' row
By Martin Ford | 02 July 2025
Reform UK has doubled down on its description of council officers as a ‘blob’ at the Local Govern...
MHCLG
Many questions – few answers
By Heather Jameson | 02 July 2025
'As the sector gathers in Liverpool for the Local Government Association annual conference, both ...
TRANSFORMATION
A council on a mission
By Cllr Lisa Evans | 02 July 2025
Mission-based working is transforming Stockton-on-Tees by empowering communities and driving chan...
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