Barry Quirk CBE
Lifelong learning for chief executives
This week Solace and the Local Government Association are launching the prototype of a new professional development offer to support chief executives through the complex challenges they face. Barry Quirk explains.
The problem with Best Value
The Government’s new Best Value draft guidance targets the right issues, but in too many areas it suggests a search for quantifiable answers to qualitative questions, says Barry Quirk.
An advocate for localism
Barry Quirk looks at the life and legacy of Professor John Stewart, whose passionate advocacy of localism, openness, diversity and local government ‘sparkled and crackled throughout his lectures’.
