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FINANCE

Pinpointing the cost drivers

By Tracie Evans | 10 January 2017

Analysing the drivers of cost is one approach to ensuring financial stability in these times of u...

HEALTH

Reimagining health and social care

By Mark Rogers | 10 January 2017

Prevention, innovation and integration have been touted as the route to relieving social care pre...

FINANCE

Keeping housing ratios real

By Cllr David Finch | 10 January 2017

The UK is in the grip of a major housing crisis, but it will take more than bricks and mortar for...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Time to throw off the shackles

By Nathan Elvery | 10 January 2017

Nathan Elvery has worked in every tier of local government. Here he warns the sector it risks bei...

FINANCE

The social care phenomenon requires national solutions

By Jim Graham | 03 January 2017

Jim Graham claims political apathy towards social care over the years has created a country that ...

FINANCE

Regenerating rundown communities

By Colin Crooks | 03 January 2017

The Government's plan to invest in rundown estates provides a prime opportunity for councils to i...

HOUSING

Grappling with the housing groupthink

By Richard Connolly | 16 December 2016

The country needs a seismic change in the way it thinks about housing if it is to address the the...

FINANCE

Government must loosen its control

By Heather Jameson | 15 December 2016

The local government finance settlement was a less an announcement to fix the funding shortfall f...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Mind the skills gap

By Garry Phillips | 14 December 2016

Garry Phillips says it is time to build the partnership between councils, education and local emp...

FINANCE

Goodbye 2016 and hello to another turbulent year

By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2016

Heather Jameson looks back on one difficult year for local government and forward to another.

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