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SOLACE
The only path out of our recruitment and retention crisis is investment in people
By Graeme McDonald | 18 October 2023
Graeme McDonald says the sector's investment in people has a way to travel to get back to the lev...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Growth battlelines
By Heather Jameson | 03 October 2023
Rishi Sunak has launched a towns plan, while a new report says bringing UK cities up to the produ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Growth: the big issue
By Ben Lucas | 03 October 2023
As we enter election season a national growth plan is needed now, delivered with and by places, s...
WELLBEING
Gove pledges to halt council four-day weeks
By Ann McGauran | 02 October 2023
Michael Gove has pledged to stop local authorities from implementing a four-day week and he said ...
RECRUITMENT
The Government's review of public sector productivity comes with risks
By Roger Russell | 26 July 2023
The Government has ordered a review of public sector productivity. Penna's Roger Russell says tha...
HUMAN RESOURCES
How long is a week?
By Aidan Rave | 24 July 2023
Despite the potential for negative headlines, councils cannot afford to ignore the potential bene...
HEALTH
The narrow path
By Charlotte Alldritt | 11 July 2023
At a time when the fiscal climate is so bleak, Labour will need to prioritise and explain how, wh...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Ministerial meddling and the four-day working week
By Professor Jonathan Davies | 11 July 2023
For elite politicians, rational, democratic and forward-looking experiments such as the four-day ...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Council leader seeks meeting with ministers over order to end four-day week
By Ann McGauran | 03 July 2023
The leader of the council ordered by local government minister Lee Rowley to halt its four-day we...
RECRUITMENT
MP hits out at council's proposals to extend four-day week trial
By Ann McGauran | 15 May 2023
A Conservative MP today hit out at proposals by a district council to approve an extension to a f...
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