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FINANCE

Rising to meet the new risks

By Andrew Jepp | 10 April 2015

Councils will be exposed to new risks - reputational, operational and financial – and increasing ...

WHITEHALL

The need for caution

By John Stewart | 09 April 2015

Greater Manchester combined authority’s devolution deal establishes a two-tier system of local go...

HUMAN RESOURCES

The sweetest taboo

By Thomas Drewry | 09 April 2015

Thomas Drewry investigates how salaries in local government compare with other professions and ur...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Do political parties have a future in local government?

By Professor Steve Leach | 09 April 2015

It would be a healthy democratic development if the major parties were prepared to reconsider the...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

The evidence on how to help our children is clear

By Jonathan Breckon | 09 April 2015

Jonathan Breckon calls for a balance to be struck in which those working to protect vulnerable ch...

The art of modern leadership

By Martin Cresswell | 09 April 2015

Modern public leadership will be shaped by those of us who are less interested in how we have per...

BUSINESS

Universal benefit?

By Henry Overman | 09 April 2015

Professor Henry Overman questions whether available evidence backs up the need to make ultrafast ...

BUSINESS

Beefing up social value?

By Dan Gregory | 07 April 2015

There’s some muscular localism at the heart of the suggested revisions to Best Value Statutory Gu...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Breaking the strike law?

By Paul McFarlane | 07 April 2015

If the Conservatives gain an overall majority, the stage is set for a battle royal between Unite ...

FINANCE

The sector 'needs its own OBR'

By Michael Burton | 30 March 2015

Local government needs its own Office for Budget Responsibility to fill the gap left by the Audit...