Solace

By Dan Peters | 07 October 2015

Local government will have to take on £11bn of additional responsibilities from Whitehall in retu...

WHITEHALL

Calls to record child spending costs 'ignored'

07 October 2015

Urgent calls from the sector for Whitehall to improve the comparison and recording of children’s ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Rates revolution

By Heather Jameson | 06 October 2015

Plans to return 100% of business rates to local government are ‘little more than a back of the en...

FINANCE

Keeping it real

By Mark Rogers | 06 October 2015

SOLACE president Mark Rogers explains to delegates at its annual summit why local government must...

FINANCE

Lost in translation?

By Graeme McDonald | 06 October 2015

SOLACE director Graeme McDonald points out how the USA views its councils, the similarities and t...

BUSINESS

Social innovation as a strategic tool for local government leaders

By John Rene Keller Lauritzen | 30 September 2015

John René Keller Lauritzen argues that councils must be both brave and open, and the only way to ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Reclaiming public leadership

By Melanie Dawes | 30 September 2015

Well-managed decentralisation will offer local areas an opportunity to strengthen their growth, w...

BUSINESS

Birth of a new state

30 September 2015

The MJ hears from some of the SOLACE summit’s keynote speakers on public leadership - both here ...

Ethics: the personal and the public

By Barry Quirk | 30 September 2015

Barry Quirk says the new code of ethics set out by SOLACE needs to be accepted by all in local go...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

SOLACE code needs to have 'more bite'

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

A committee will be formed to develop the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives’ (SOLACE) c...

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