ECONOMIC GROWTH

Everyone should have the right to be heard

By Mark Whitehead | 27 July 2015

As calls come for a radical re-think of the government’s current complaints system, Mark Whitehea...

HEALTH

Taming the wild frontier

By Michael Burton | 22 July 2015

Has the new devolution agenda of combined authorities created a Wild West in which risk managemen...

FINANCE

The money makers

By Dan Peters | 22 July 2015

Dan Peters reports on the results of a joint The MJ, LGN and Localis study in which local authori...

FINANCE

How to deliver genuine change

By Laura Sharman | 14 July 2015

Local authorities must change the way they deliver efficiency and transformation programmes. The ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Let children be seen and heard

By Dan Peters | 14 July 2015

For too long society has failed to listen to its youngest members and that must change, the new c...

WHITEHALL

It's all about the money

By Heather Jameson | 14 July 2015

Heather Jameson looks at the small print for the sector as the emergency budget provided a mixed ...

WHITEHALL

Procurement scrutinised

By Dan Corry | 08 July 2015

Payment by results may be contributing to the problems of public services rather than solving the...

FINANCE

A necessary tool for growth

By Lars M Andersson | 08 July 2015

Rapid urbanisation and new infrastructure development is at a critical point. Lars M Andersson ar...

FINANCE

Making the leap into municipal bonds

By Dan Peters | 08 July 2015

Developed through the Local Government Association as a means of reducing councils’ capital finan...

A new job, right out of the blue

By Michael Burton | 01 July 2015

The new Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association, Cllr Gary Porter, had his bags...