PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Total Place: The next generation
By Heather Jameson | 09 July 2025
The Government is exploring how it can build on the legacy of Total Place by testing the pooling of budgets across local public services, ministers have said.
LGA CONFERENCE
Central and local government will transform the country for the better
By Georgia Gould | 03 July 2025
Writing in the week of the LGA Conference, Jim McMahon and Georgia Gould say this government was ...
COUNCIL TAX
Relieving the pressure on public finances
By Piali Das Gupta | 03 July 2025
Local government must be properly resourced for any new duties it is tasked with, writes Piali Da...
SERVICE DELIVERY
Forging the future
By Martin Ford | 25 June 2025
With the sector in crisis and the need for radical change, fundamental questions are being asked ...
WHITEHALL
Helping folk stay afloat
By Chris Naylor | 25 June 2024
Chris Naylor says his intuitively simple vision is for a neighbourhood-based preventative state –...
WHITEHALL
Service cuts likely, think-tank warns
By Ellie Ames | 21 June 2024
Councils could be forced to cut back service provision if cost and demand pressures continue to g...
FINANCE
Removing the local barriers that stop older people from flourishing
By Natalie Turner | 20 June 2024
In the context of councils’ need to make cost savings, Natalie Turner looks at how local authorit...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A Faer Point
By Martin Tucker | 15 May 2024
There are fewer levers for council leaders to pull in their areas. Visible services are reduced a...
DATA
The time for answers
By Cllr Shaun Davies | 07 May 2024
Last week, The Times used Oflog data to produce league tables, realising local government’s fears...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
Let's have a real conversation about money
By Rachael Shimmin | 07 May 2024
We need a serious, grown-up conversation about what kind of state we want, what kind of state we ...
SERVICE DELIVERY
Jon Snow you know nothing
By Blair McPherson | 12 April 2024
Blair McPherson explains how his bid to explain the daunting complexities of how local government...
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