HEALTH

Localised business rates could fund care shake-up

By Dominic Browne | 19 October 2011

Andrew Dilnot, chair of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support claims full localisation of...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Unemployment a complex problem

By Stephen Bubb | 19 October 2011

Sir Stephen Bubb looks at the latest figures from the Department for Education, which details how...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Making Big Society work in Surrey

By Alex Thomson | 18 October 2011

Surrey has a vibrant and active third sector or 'civil society' which is helping deliver Big Soci...

FINANCE

The power to charge for services

By Paul O'Brien | 18 October 2011

Paul O'Brien says that in these cash-strapped times councils should not forget their ability to b...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

How localism works in Sweden

By Robin Hambleton | 18 October 2011

Robin Hambleton argues Sweden's powerful local authorities act as a barrier against national inte...

FINANCE

New ways of modernising libraries

By Eric Bohl | 18 October 2011

Eric Bohl says libraries don't feel the need to feel they are living on borrowed time with a whol...

FINANCE

Public behaviour and efficiency

By Kieran Stigant | 18 October 2011

Warren Hatter and Kieran Stigant look at how West Sussex CC is learning how to encourage changes ...

What next for council budgets?

By Laura Sharman | 14 October 2011

Laura Sharman reports on the highlights of a debate organised by The MJ and Pitney Bowes Business...

FINANCE

Money Matters

By Alison Scott | 12 October 2011

The unusually mild autumn may make Christmas and the annual budget-setting process seem way off, ...

FINANCE

How to use tax increment finance

By Mark Simpson | 12 October 2011

Christopher Brigstocke and Mark Simpson believe councils need to get maximum value on Tax Increme...