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HEALTH

Health and care integration must start with Whitehall departments

By Tracie Evans | 20 April 2017

Tracie Evans argues integrated health and social care outcomes may be difficult to reach unless p...

FINANCE

Call for 'more sustainable' childcare approach

By Mark Conrad | 18 April 2017

Ministers’ proposed childcare reforms risk repeating the mistakes of the social care market, with...

WHITEHALL

Shaping social care markets

By Catherine Taylor | 13 April 2017

Whatever the national funding and policy configuration, commissioners and providers need to reinv...

HUMAN RESOURCES

App for real-life recruitment

By David Johnston | 11 April 2017

Buckinghamshire CC is the first authority in the country to use a computer simulation in the recr...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

EXCLUSIVE: Child and adult care posts 'hardest to fill'

By Sam Clayden | 11 April 2017

Filling children and adult social care positions is causing upper-tier chief executives the bigge...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Tri-borough: the sharing model can still succeed

By Liz Bruce | 11 April 2017

Liz Bruce reflects on her time as a senior manager for the now collapsed tri-borough, but maintai...

HUMAN RESOURCES

A turbulent time for talent

By Sam Clayden | 11 April 2017

Is local government approaching a deficit of leadership? Sam Clayden analyses the results of a ne...

WHITEHALL

Scorn for Bourne's £1bn

By Dan Peters | 11 April 2017

Government figures claiming councils can raise £1bn through the social care precept are massively...

HEALTH

Two's company

By Mike Waites | 05 April 2017

Relationships between councils and the NHS are becoming ever closer but could joint working lead ...

HEALTH

Councils can't be junior partners in STPs

By Helen McKenna | 05 April 2017

Helen McKenna explains the vital role local government must play in health and care transformatio...

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