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SOCIAL CARE

A nugget of digital gold

By Dean Wanless | 25 May 2016

As the Digital Authority Forum gets underway, Dean Wanless explains how interesting work on digit...

FINANCE

HR can be your star player

By Barry Pirie | 25 May 2016

Barry Pirie says results from the first annual poll of PPMA members shows HR is in rude health, w...

FINANCE

Shard work pays off

By Andrew Muter | 25 May 2016

Andrew Muter explains how a recent council 'clean out' revealed the extent to which local governm...

FINANCE

Commercialism by any other name

By Adele Taylor | 25 May 2016

Whether or not progress is badged as commercialism, Adele Taylor says councils must focus on effi...

DCLG

Make your voice heard

By Simon Jones | 24 May 2016

With local journalism in dire straits, further government sanctions on council newspapers will th...

FINANCE

Cash still king for local growth?

By Dominic Leigh | 23 May 2016

A Localis report today warned local economies and communities could suffer without the availabili...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Local democracy makers

By Dr Philip Lloyd-Williams | 23 May 2016

As council constitutions are redrawn following the local elections, officers are swiftly put into...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Let's stop this back door manoeuvre towards academisation

By Heather Jameson | 17 May 2016

After local government's lobbying success on academies, Heather Jameson explains why councils and...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Councils cannot improve public health alone

By Michael Burton | 17 May 2016

Michael Burton asks whether a local or national strategy should tackle the issue of improving pub...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Back to school

By Claire Fox | 17 May 2016

After the High Court’s ruling on unauthorised school abscences, Claire Fox warns against the risi...

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