Partnerships

By Lawrence Conway | 28 March 2023

From April 1 Cumbria will be reorganised into two unitary authorities. In his final column for Th...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Shining a light on governance

21 March 2023

What causes governance to falter? The latest in The MJ’s series of articles on avoiding organisat...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Joined-up vision and ambition in Lincs

By Ann McGauran | 21 March 2023

A trailblazing partnership of councils in Lincolnshire provides critical mass for levelling up th...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Budget 2023: The austerity elephant

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 17 March 2023

Forced cutbacks and savings from councils over the next few years risk outweighing the new regene...

INFRASTRUCTURE

A safe end to a week-long drama in Great Yarmouth

By Sheila Oxtoby | 14 March 2023

The operation in Great Yarmouth to make a bomb safe was, to put it mildly, complex, says Sheila O...

BUSINESS

A simple plan for partnerships

By Heather Jameson | 14 March 2023

Plans are under way to focus the work of Local Partnerships on three key themes. Adele Gritten an...

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...

FINANCE

Pay 'putting off potential new finance recruits'

By Mark Conrad | 13 March 2023

Lower levels of pay in the public sector are discouraging finance professionals from entering loc...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Sheffield to reassess partnerships after peer review

By Mark Conrad | 13 March 2023

Sheffield City Council will reassess its local partnership arrangements following a Local Governm...

This moment is bittersweet

By Paul Shevlin | 07 March 2023

In his last District View column for The MJ, Paul Shevlin reflects on what working in local autho...

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