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FINANCE

Failure is not an option

By Heather Jameson | 09 May 2013

It would be easy to be cynical about the LGA's submission to the spending review, says Heather Ja...

WHITEHALL

The absence of the left in last week's elections

By Michael Burton | 09 May 2013

Michael Burton says Cameron's middle of the road conservatism has opened him up to an attack from...

FINANCE

The need for a commercialisation strategy

By Paul O'Brien | 09 May 2013

The public want and need local government to provide the range of services that make the quality ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Home Counties living with Home Counties values

By Paul Wheeler | 09 May 2013

Shouldn't councils be cultivating home-grown talent rather than relying on expensive imports? Ask...

FINANCE

Can SIBs save us?

By Dan Corry | 09 May 2013

Dan Corry reports on how some of the incentives from Social Impact Bonds are not brilliantly alig...

FINANCE

A pointed political attack on local government

By Nicola Bulbeck | 09 May 2013

Local government needs and wants a mutually rewarding relationship with its secretary of state, a...

WHITEHALL

Councils clean up the mess

By David Walker | 09 May 2013

Town halls will have to step up if they are to ease the impact welfare policies have on their com...

FINANCE

The challenges facing new councillors

By Alison Scott | 08 May 2013

Its important new councillors are given an early induction in the constraints and opportunities o...

Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous

07 May 2013

Take part in our survey on tenant engagement and welfare reform

07 May 2013