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PROCUREMENT
Navigating the new procurement landscape
By Jonathan Werran | 16 October 2025
A Localis study puts forward a series of recommendations on how councils can make the most of the...
POLICY
'Community power key to pushing out populism'
By Neil Merrick | 22 July 2025
More participatory democracy and a genuine transfer of power to neighbourhoods and communities is...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Creating work, the local way
By Jonathan Werran | 01 July 2025
A new research programme shows how devolution can improve employment services by moving decision-...
POLICY
Reorganisation 'damage will take years to repair'
By Martin Ford | 25 June 2025
Concerns have been voiced over the role of proposed neighbourhood area committees in newly reorga...
REORGANISATION
Nine out of 10 councillors 'may be lost due to LGR in shire areas'
By Ann McGauran | 25 June 2025
Nine out of 10 councillors may be lost in shire areas in local government reorganisation, academi...
REORGANISATION
The death of local government
By Steve Leach | 25 June 2025
The Government’s commitment to authorities of around half-a-million will further decimate the cou...
REGENERATION
Regeneration: Opportunity knocks
By David Blackman | 14 May 2025
David Blackman talks to leading figures about the prospects for regeneration following the propos...
REORGANISATION
Prioritising financial probity in a time of flux
By Amardeep Gill | 17 April 2025
Audit, government and scrutiny must be reformed and renewed alongside reorganisation or the risk ...
DEVOLUTION
Southern power play
By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2025
Jonathan Werran says the geographic and economic reality of a more prosperous and easily investab...
FINANCE
Finance warning amid growth fears
By Joe Lepper | 13 March 2025
Pressures on local government could become more acute amid fears of ‘lacklustre’ growth, sector e...
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