Transformation

By Robbie Bates | 11 March 2020

In order to deliver sustainable and impactful change we need to take a whole place-based approach...

THIRD SECTOR

Organising for change

By Dominic Campbell | 26 February 2020

Dominic Campbell looks ahead to the NLGN’s upcoming flagship event, assessing how the sector can ...

FINANCE

Council bid to breach accounting rules

By Martin Ford | 17 February 2020

A request to the Government for a capitalisation direction has been made by Peterborough City Cou...

HEALTH

More power for the people

15 January 2020

Margaret Bolton argues that it’s time to establish a Community Wealth Fund to devolve decision-ma...

WHITEHALL

More weirdos wanted!

By Donna Hall | 15 January 2020

You don’t have to be brilliant at digital, algorithms or a weirdo to see that naked self-preserva...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Boston urged to 'shout loudly'

By Martin Ford | 02 January 2020

The council has been told it should be proud of its achievements following a corporate peer chall...

FINANCE

Two out of three councils eat into reserves

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2019

Two-thirds of councils have reduced their general fund reserves over the last three years, a new ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

New management roles to reflect changed emphasis

By Paul Marinko | 09 December 2019

Durham Council is to create two new roles in its senior management team, partly to reflect the gr...

Once upon a place...

By Susan Parsonage | 27 November 2019

Susan Parsonage says the stories local leaders tell have tremendous power to remind us of our com...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Lessons learned from two years of the State of Transformation

By Benjamin Taylor | 13 November 2019

Benjamin Taylor reviews the landscape of local government transformation over two years of case s...

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