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REORGANISATION
LGR: Culture eats strategy for breakfast
By Adele Gritten | 15 May 2025
Organisational culture is crucial to the success of local government reorganisation, writes Adele...
REORGANISATION
War of words over Surrey CC reorganisation plan
By Dan Peters | 14 May 2025
Opposition Surrey CC members have argued a plan for two new unitary authorities in the county was...
REGENERATION
Regeneration: Opportunity knocks
By David Blackman | 14 May 2025
David Blackman talks to leading figures about the prospects for regeneration following the propos...
REORGANISATION
Sector annoyance at Government's revised LGR feedback letters
By Paul Marinko | 14 May 2025
Whitehall’s decision to send revised reorganisation feedback letters has stoked sector frustration.
FINANCE
Reasons to cheer – but the work isn't finished
By Jason Lowther | 13 May 2025
Jason Lowther says the new Government has got off to a promising start on rectifying the many cri...
REORGANISATION
Debt hurdle remains for reorganisation plans
By Martin Ford | 13 May 2025
Multi-billion pound debts remain a point of contention in reorganisation negotiations as the dead...
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...
GOVERNANCE
Filling in the holes in local democracy
By Mel Stevens | 08 May 2025
Mel Stevens considers where the new democratic deficits will lie in the new local government land...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
A shared definition of 'neighbourhoods' is important
By Jessica Studdert | 08 May 2025
Jessica Studdert says that for real impact at a hyperlocal level, neighbourhoods need to be consi...
PODCASTS
Our World is Local: Local government reorganisation with Simon Kaye
07 May 2025
Simon Kaye, policy director at the think tank Reform, explores the competing visions for future c...
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