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IMPROVEMENT
Councils: Commissioners need to be the very last resort
By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026
'The question is how to get local government back to the days when intervention was the exceptio...
IMPROVEMENT
Windsor and Maidenhead Council: Back from the brink
By Stephen Evans | 08 October 2026
Windsor and Maidenhead Council has changed from a council on the edge to one that is balancing bu...
SOLACE SUMMIT
Rewiring leadership
By Kim Wright | 08 October 2026
Writing ahead of the Solace Summit later this month, Robin Tuddenham and Kim Wright say harnessin...
CARE LEAVERS
Care leavers need to avoid a support 'cliff edge'
By Ann Graham | 08 October 2026
The imperative of children’s services leaders must be to create the conditions for all care leave...
VAWG
Honour-based abuse thrives where it goes unseen
By Cllr Andreas Kirsch | 07 October 2026
Those who fund, run and work alongside VAWG services 'have a shared purpose to bring it into the ...
DEVOLUTION
Devolution's next challenge: Building capable places
By Thomas Johnson | 07 October 2026
Thomas Johnson looks at what Greater Manchester’s experience suggests about the next stage of dev...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Why complaints won't wait for reform
By Amerdeep Clarke | 07 October 2026
Amerdeep Clarke sets out four things councils can fix in adult social care today.
FISCAL DEVOLUTION
Fiscal devo: getting the tax assignment model right for regional growth
By David Phillips | 06 October 2026
David Phillips looks at how the Government can get its tax revenue sharing plans right.
WORKFORCE
LGR pause could leave local authority staff in a state of flux
By Matthew Gregson | 06 October 2026
Matthew Gregson says that amid the uncertainty around reorganisation, council leadership needs to...
ELECTIONS
Electoral dysfunction
By Jonathan Werran | 06 October 2026
Election uncertainty threatens local government reorganisation, devolution plans and councils’ ab...
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