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DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

Our communities know district councils are delivering

By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 28 February 2023

Independent analysis commissioned ahead of the District Councils’ Network conference is a vindica...

TRANSPORT

Working as leaders to overcome electric vehicle charging challenges

By Amy Harhoff | 24 February 2023

We must make the case for the need for convenient access to electric charging points as part of a...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Top-down asylum plans are a catastrophe in waiting

By Heather Jameson | 21 February 2023

Barely a week goes by without a council discovering a Home Office plan to relocate asylum seekers...

LONDON COUNCILS

Protecting residents and preventing violence

By Alison Griffin | 21 February 2023

London Councils is working with partners to map the VAWG (violence against women and girls) fundi...

PLANNING

The National Planning Policy Framework could be a move in the right direction

By Gill Kneller | 21 February 2023

East Hampshire faces a double whammy of issues on centrally-imposed housing targets, says Gill Kn...

SOLACE

Peak performance

21 February 2023

The public sector is always up for a challenge – so we have a new one: taking part in the Nationa...

SOLACE

Expanding horizons

By Steve Guest | 21 February 2023

Steve Guest says that when it comes to succession planning many within local government have been...

WHITEHALL

There is real opportunity for big reforms

By Jessica Studdert | 21 February 2023

Jessica Studdert says it can be hard to be optimistic about the national Government machine's abi...

WHITEHALL

The problem with over-reach

By Patrick Diamond | 21 February 2023

Patrick Diamond examines the continuing dysfunctionality at the centre that is holding back Engli...

CLIMATE CHANGE

A call for parity at the UK's edges

By Cllr Linda Taylor | 21 February 2023

Cllr Linda Taylor says the Government’s renewed enthusiasm for levelling up is a reset moment for...

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