Scrutiny

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 July 2016

Five district councils in Kent are to discuss merging into a single authority this month.

FINANCE

PAC concerned about devolution oversight

By Sam Clayden | 01 July 2016

MPs have raised fresh concerns about the oversight and implementation of devolution deals as loca...

FINANCE

How to create the winning team

By Claire Mansfield | 29 June 2016

The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has produced research on the relationship between council...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Groundbreaking work on child safeguarding

By Sue Williams | 29 June 2016

Sue Williams explains how Hertfordshire CC used support from the Government’s Innovation Fund to ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Open scrutiny on government interventions

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2016

Dan Peters examines government intervention in children’s services and asks whether greater trans...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Officers could be identified under future Ofsted rules

By Sam Clayden | 28 June 2016

Poor performing local authority chief executives and their management teams could be named and sh...

Council 'failed' to safeguard taxi passengers

By Laura Sharman | 23 June 2016

South Ribble Council had failed to make the safety of taxi passengers a priority when issuing lic...

EDUCATION

Locking out council expertise from schools?

By John O’Brien | 21 June 2016

John O'Brien says local government must ensure improvement in education, no matter who is respons...

FINANCE

Details of £300m grant 'not in the public interest'

By Dan Peters | 21 June 2016

The Government has refused to publish key details about how its £300m transitional grant was allo...

FINANCE

The dog that did not bark

By Graham Chapman | 21 June 2016

After his FOI request on government funding to councils was blocked, Graham Chapman says serious ...

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