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IMPROVEMENT

Making change successful

25 April 2023

The MJ’s series of article on avoiding organisational failure continues with a look at some of th...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Mapping a plan for better biodiversity

By Kieron Gregson | 25 April 2023

Research by Carter Jonas has found that most local planning authorities have neither adopted a bi...

COMBINED AUTHORITY

The problem with the levelling up cake

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 25 April 2023

Handing out funding from targeted pots and through competitive bidding leads to big disparities i...

FINANCE

Cash is key to invest in prevention

By Sir Stephen Houghton | 25 April 2023

Children’s services need the same attention as adult social care, and the £2.6bn set out in the M...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Follow the road to health

By Richard Humphries | 25 April 2023

As an independent roadmap for reforming adult social care is published by social care leaders’ as...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Partnership delivers forward thinking regeneration

By Sheila Oxtoby | 25 April 2023

A new £21.4m campus - a partnership project between Great Yarmouth BC, Norfolk CC and the New A...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Stand up for your rights

By Michael Burton | 25 April 2023

The downfall of Dominic Raab should give senior council officers reason to revisit their own rule...

SOLACE

Tackling local government's leadership paradoxes

By Graeme McDonald | 25 April 2023

With many councils set for 'another set of politically volatile elections', Graeme McDonald turns...

FINANCE

 A broken record

By Michael Hudson | 25 April 2023

Michael Hudson says that without resolving the outstanding audit issues council s151 officers fac...

MANAGEMENT

It's never just business

By Blair McPherson | 24 April 2023

A politician’s dream is a robust business case that supports their ideological aspirations, says ...

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