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Expecting the unexpected
POLICY AND POLITICS

Expecting the unexpected

By Stephen Gaskell | 17 July 2025

Five years on from the easing of Covid restrictions, Stephen Gaskell says the sector proved that without local government, the crisis would have hit places much harder and with unimaginable consequ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Workforce development is an urgent priority

By By Graeme McDonald | 09 July 2025

Managing director of senior officers' organisation Solace, Graeme McDonald, says 94% of councils ...

INNOVATION

Experts call for slice of AI cash

By Dan Peters | 02 July 2025

Councils should get a share of the £2bn announced for artificial intelligence (AI) in the Spendin...

PLACE-MAKING

Place is dead, long live Place!

By Stephen Moir | 30 June 2025

It’s time to embrace the opportunity of reform to really put place to the forefront of all that w...

LGA CONFERENCE

How to make leadership radical, capable and agile

By Kim Wright | 27 June 2025

With the LGA Conference on 1-3 July imminent, Kim Wright – who will speak at the event – says inv...

LEADERSHIP

'It's time to act'

By Dan Peters | 26 June 2025

More than seven out of 10 women feel there is not enough of a gender balance at the most senior o...

LGA CONFERENCE

How to make leadership radical, capable and agile

By Kim Wright | 25 June 2025

With the LGA Conference on 1-3 July imminent, Kim Wright – who will speak at the event – says inv...

LEADERSHIP

In tandem at the top

By Ann McGauran | 17 June 2025

Stepping into high profile professional leadership roles in the sector is benefitting their own c...

POLITICS

Hollinrake warning over DOGE request

By Dan Peters | 13 June 2025

Requests for data by Reform UK’s DOGE unit are a ‘cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’, sha...

AI

AI use increases but barriers remain

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) use among councils is increasing, but one in 10 are still not using ...

LGA

Councils' watershed moment

By Martin Ford | 05 June 2025

Next week’s Spending Review will have huge implications for the future finances of local governme...

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