Blueprint document sparks sector concern
POLICY

Blueprint document sparks sector concern

By Lee Peart | 15 May 2025

A blueprint document detailing changes to Integrated Care Board (ICB) functions has sparked concerns across local government.

BUSINESS

Local government leads way on SME procurement spend

By Emily Twinch | 12 May 2025

Councils are bucking the trend with spending on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), figure...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Catching the money falling between the silos

By Donna Hall | 11 May 2025

The goal of radical place leadership is to embed and systematise relational working, and research...

POLITICS

Think-tank calls for return of Brown's Total Place

By Emily Twinch | 09 May 2025

An initiative from Gordon Brown’s premiership to integrate local public services’ budgets should ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

A time for unity, not division

By Matthew Taylor | 07 May 2025

There is still time to press for more collaborative place working across the public sector, write...

PAY

Employers' warning over wage pressures as unions consider offer

By Dan Peters | 28 April 2025

Wage pressures are contributing to the local government funding gap of £1.9bn in 2025-26, council...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Rooting care in place

By Ann McGauran | 26 April 2025

As directors of adult social services gear up for their Spring Seminar, incoming ADASS president ...

SOCIAL CARE

Keeping a neighbourly eye on care

By Ann McGauran | 25 April 2025

The Government is committed to creating a neighbourhood health service, but some local places hav...

REORGANISATION

Navigate the chaos and dance with the processes

By Tracie Langley | 09 April 2025

Tracie Langley says: 'As leaders, the greatest impact we can make is to instil a sense of calm an...

PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM

People, purpose and power for a new era

By Rebecca Murphy | 03 April 2025

New partnership approaches are needed to tackle the challenges at the heart of local government, ...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Taking a test, learn and grow approach in Camden

By Jess McGregor | 03 April 2025

Jess McGregor says that as Camden LBC tests its neighbourhoods approach to empowering people, it ...

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