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Relationship advice
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Relationship advice

By Michael Coughlin | 12 May 2026

Local and regional government has a critical role to play in developing, implementing and scaling relational approaches to public services, says Michael Coughlin.

HOMELESSNESS

Mayors: A secret weapon to tackle homelessness?

By Jack Shaw | 29 April 2026

Jack Shaw says mayoral leadership can add much-needed ballast to a broken, expensive system that ...

DEVOLUTION

Now it's time to seize the initiative

By Simon Kaye | 25 March 2026

Simon Kaye sees an opportunity for a sceptical sector to push hard for further devolution.

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Peering into the future of Total Place

By Ann McGauran | 24 March 2026

National policymakers and local system leaders gathered at a convention to look at how place-base...

REGENERATION

Ensuring people take pride of place

By Andrew Laird | 17 March 2026

To successfully deliver the Pride in Place programme communities need to be prioritised in both g...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Government announces five pooled budgets pilots

By Ann McGauran | 17 March 2026

The Government has today announced details of pilots to test pooled budgets in five areas, ahead ...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Total Place and financial flexibility is back on the agenda

By Anna Randle | 10 March 2026

Ahead of New Local’s convention on place-based budgeting next week, Anna Randle says that if the...

FINANCE

The job of delivering a more sustainable council finance system is far from over

By Paul Honeyben | 26 February 2026

The task of delivering a more sustainable local government finance system is – at best – only ha...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Working together to prevent VAWG

By Cllr Angelo Weekes | 12 February 2026

Islington LBC will be working with central government and partners to design and test new ways to...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Building budgets around places

By Stephen Taylor | 12 February 2026

Stephen Taylor says that if place-based budgeting is done in the right way, people and communitie...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Seeing the bigger picture

By Matthew Taylor | 11 February 2026

Matthew Taylor untangles the threads of the Government’s public service reform agenda.

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