Title

Season to celebrate

05 February 2010

Local authority care home operator, Four Seasons, has revealed 84% of its homes in England have b...

BUSINESS

Councils sign five-year contract with Viridor

05 February 2010

A group of councils in Cambridgeshire has signed a recycling contract with Viridor.

BUSINESS

Drive launched to rescue steel plant facing closure

05 February 2010

A last-ditch bid has been launched to save a steel plant from closure.Senior councillors from acr...

WHITEHALL

Necessity is the mother of invention

04 February 2010

Councils need a pioneering spirit to deal with the public sector downturn, says Aiden Rave.

WHITEHALL

Has equality moved on in a century?

04 February 2010

Anne Baldwin looks back to the time when women were first allowed to stand in London local electi...

HEALTH

How we work together

04 February 2010

The council and the PCT in Croydon have enjoyed co-terminosity for many years. Hannah Miller of C...

WHITEHALL

Soapbox

04 February 2010

Jim Hancock considers how sharing services is working on the ground in the North West

WHITEHALL

Read me like a book

04 February 2010

A new initiative involves real people acting as ‘books’ in their local libraries, with the public...

WHITEHALL

Plugged In

04 February 2010

Abdool Kara tries to get to the bottom of 'localism' and better services

WHITEHALL

An eager legal eagle

04 February 2010

By creating a new style of legal services department in Kent, Geoff Wild has managed to provide a...