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BUDGET 2025
Making a start on SEND costs
By Michael Burton | 02 December 2025
With social care funding still unresolved, the Budget at least took a decisive first step toward tackling the spiralling costs of SEND, writes Michael Burton.
REORGANISATION
LGR in Greater Essex: An economic imperative and a political choice
By Cllr Daniel Cowan | 02 December 2025
As the Government announces a consultation on the future of local government in Essex, Daniel Cow...
LEADERSHIP
Local partnerships under fire
By Blair McPherson | 02 December 2025
What happened when a health partner agency went public to criticise the local council? Blair McPh...
SOCIAL CARE
The cost of improvement in children's social care
By William Burns | 02 December 2025
William Burns says that improvement to children’s social care is both complex, costly and long te...
KEY CITIES
Councils are at breaking point and social care should be made a priority
By Cllr Mike Stonard | 24 November 2025
Ahead of the Autumn Budget, Key Cities portfolio holder for health and social care Cllr Mike Ston...
SOCIAL CARE
Beating the Budget: System-led sustainability for social care
By Amy Long | 24 November 2025
Amy Long looks at finding the levers that adults and children’s services can use to build future-...
HEALTH
Rise up to reimagine health
By Matthew Taylor | 18 November 2025
With so much funding locked into NHS provision, only bold reform in how care is delivered will un...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation: The next chapter in Surrey
By Ann McGauran | 13 November 2025
As Surrey prepares for unitarisation county council leader Tim Oliver tells Ann McGauran politics...
REORGANISATION
Rival bids see Norfolk clash over public sector reform
By Joe Lepper | 13 November 2025
Public sector reform has emerged as a key battleground among rival local reorganisation bids in t...
PROCUREMENT
Care businesses in three regions 'extract' more than £250m in profits
By Ann McGauran | 12 November 2025
Private companies providing care services have taken more than £250m in profits in just three reg...
PROCUREMENT
Social care reform: Stopping profit extraction in services
By Rosie Maguire | 12 November 2025
Introducing a major report on UK social care, Rosie Maguire highlights how fairer commissioning a...
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