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By Jessica Studdert | 17 January 2022

Devolution should rock the status quo and create a new culture of governance which pushes everyon...

HOMELESSNESS

Ring-fenced funds are not well suited to the roaring demand challenges of the twenties

By Jessica Studdert | 16 November 2021

By doing away with ring-fences all together, local partners would be freed up to collaborate and ...

FINANCE

Councils need power and financial freedom to tackle housing, says think-tank

By Heather Jameson | 16 November 2021

Councils and communities need more powers and financial freedoms to drive new development and res...

BUSINESS

Minister tells councils price of devolution

By Dan Peters | 08 November 2021

Levelling up minister Neil O’Brien has told councils they will have to improve their ‘governance,...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Call for ground-up approach to carbon reduction

By Martin Ford | 19 October 2021

The Government must ‘match the ambition of communities’ on reducing carbon emissions, a think-tan...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

St Albans festival pulls out all the stops

By Thomas Wrench | 06 October 2021

National Graduate Development Programme trainee Thomas Wrench says councils’ investment in activ...

SOCIAL CARE

Councils must recognise the threat to locally delivered social care

By Jessica Studdert | 05 October 2021

The local government sector, and the bodies which represent it, need to switch from a stance that...

HEALTH

'Health is made at home, hospitals are for repairs'

By Lord Nigel Crisp | 05 May 2021

Lord Nigel Crisp says coalitions of local interest have a vital role when it comes to improving l...

COMMUNITIES

Gazing up at the future of community power

By Ann McGauran | 27 April 2021

Following on from a three-day event in March, New Local's Building Stronger Things looked at how ...

HEALTH

Sector urged not to give up on health devolution

By Dan Peters | 13 April 2021

The sector should not give up on securing future health devolution deals despite the Government’s...

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