LGA CONFERENCE
After the riots
By Martin Ford | 08 July 2025
A session at last week’s LGA conference in Liverpool heard insights from one place impacted by last summer’s rioting, with reflections on the key lessons learned. Martin Ford reports.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Preventing abuse from happening must be our ultimate goal
By Rachael Wardell | 04 July 2025
As leaders of children’s services prepare to gather for their annual conference next week, Rachae...
INNOVATION
A council on a mission
By Cllr Lisa Evans | 02 July 2025
Mission-based working is transforming Stockton-on-Tees by empowering communities and driving chan...
REORGANISATION
Navigating place-based decarbonisation
By Paul Marinko | 02 July 2025
In a rapidly changing world and a sector consumed with financial pressures and local government r...
COHESION
Independent cohesion commission launched
By Martin Ford | 30 June 2025
An independent commission on community and cohesion has been established to look into the ‘root c...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
The power of the dream
By Jon Rouse | 27 June 2025
Jon Rouse says that rather than being a bureaucratic exercise, reorganisation is about complete r...
SCRUTINY
Rebuilding trust is everybody's business
By Sarah Castell | 26 June 2025
Restorative approaches developed after the Grenfell tragedy are relevant everywhere, argue Dawn P...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
A capital alliance going beyond the surface
By Cllr Kieron Williams | 22 June 2025
Reducing the risk of disruption across London from surface water flooding is something which must...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Rallying around risk prevention
By David Arminger | 16 June 2025
A explosion in Worksop triggered a huge response that proved how effectively the sector is able t...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Reorganisation tax warning
By Dan Peters | 05 June 2025
Town and parish councils have warned ministers not to impose restrictions on their ability to rai...
STRONGER THINGS
Stronger Things: 'Don't use reorganisation to scale up the same things'
By Ann McGauran | 04 June 2025
Local government should beware of using reorganisation solely to ‘redesign the same things on a d...
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