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REORGANISATION
A magic population number for local government is a fallacy
By Colin Copus | 10 February 2025
The Government is progressing with a centralisation agenda dividing local government into deliver...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
A new way forward for UK councils on the climate emergency
By Miles Ashton | 06 February 2025
Within the context of increasing pressure on PWLB funding, councils need mechanisms like Local Cl...
SEND
Saving SEND
By Cllr Arooj Shah | 05 February 2025
The root causes of the crisis in SEND are systemic, and any attempts to improve outcomes will fai...
POLICY
Beginnings and enormous possibilities
By Dr Catherine Howe | 05 February 2025
In her first Soapbox column, Dr Catherine Howe says that when she lifts her head out of the immed...
INNOVATION
Innovation: the key
By Abdool Kara | 05 February 2025
Local government is feeling the squeeze. To transform services, it must unlock innovation, writes...
FINANCE
Struggling to be glass half full
By Adele Taylor | 05 February 2025
Watching budget proposals for the next year and medium-term, Adele Taylor says that even she is s...
PLACE-MAKING
Rediscovering the purpose of economic strategy
By Sarah Longlands | 05 February 2025
Being able to identify and focus in on the key objective – the ‘why’ – of economic policy is unde...
FINANCE
Is this really handing local leaders power over their finances?
By Heather Jameson | 05 February 2025
There was no sense of irony in the finance settlement when the Ministry of Housing, Communities a...
WORKFORCE
Keeping the cogs turning on commerce
By Justin Galliford | 04 February 2025
Local authority trading companies have contributed to the fragmentation of the local government w...
LEADERSHIP
A challenge and a purpose
By Jonathan Stephenson | 04 February 2025
The inaugural London Bridges Walk was more than just a physical challenge. It was a powerful remi...
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