Scrutiny

By Martin Ford | 23 March 2021

Councillors in Stockport said they had been ‘treated with contempt’ after a joint director with T...

FINANCE

What can be learnt from the recent Public Interest Reports?

By Paul Dossett | 12 March 2021

Paul Dossett of Grant Thornton UK considers the key lessons for local government that have emerge...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Councils should not 'overly collude' with 'flagellation' on governance

By Ann McGauran | 09 March 2021

Councils should not ‘overly collude’ with the ‘flagellation that sometimes comes from the centre’...

A toolkit for good governance

By Lord Bob Kerslake | 09 March 2021

Launched this week, a new framework for examining complex local governance challenges focused on ...

SCRUTINY

Groundwork laid for combined authority

By Martin Ford | 04 March 2021

Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council are pressing ahead with laying the politic...

HEALTH

Local scrutiny should stay embedded in the local community

By Ed Hammond | 02 March 2021

Local scrutiny can and must play an ongoing and supportive role relating to the Secretary of Stat...

SCRUTINY

Building citizen centred systems to deliver the best integrated care

By Anja Beriro | 17 February 2021

Local government has the mechanisms and knowledge to ensure place, neighbourhoods and citizens ar...

WHITEHALL

Sector braced for more Whitehall interventions

By Dan Peters | 17 November 2020

Local government is braced for further Whitehall interventions in the wake of ministers launching...

LEGAL

Picking up lessons from poker

By Nick Graham | 12 October 2020

Nick Graham explains why local authority decision-makers should play more poker, and listen to th...

BUSINESS

Spelthorne assets have 'continued to perform well'

By Dan Peters | 09 October 2020

A council criticised for borrowing millions of pounds to strike deals has said its assets have ‘c...

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