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POLICY AND POLITICS
Reform council facing challenge of beginning from 'standing start'
By Paul Marinko | 21 January 2026
Durham CC’s adaptation to future challenges could be delayed due to the Reform UK leadership beginning from a ‘standing start’, a corporate peer challenge has concluded.
CRIME
Connecting to create safer places
By John Tizard | 02 December 2025
Police and crime commissioner for Bedfordshire John Tizard says shared problem solving and pooled...
CRIME
Fighting back with AI
By Sharon Lea | 27 November 2025
Investment in AI-powered CCTV and a local law enforcement team is delivering real results in the ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Policing reform shouldn't be piecemeal
By Sir Bob Neill | 26 November 2025
The abolition of police and crime commissioners is a start, but no substitute for the scale of re...
COHESION
Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels
By By Dan Peters | 16 October 2025
Cohesion is ‘core to what we do in local government’, the president of senior officers’ group Sol...
COHESION
Time to ACT on terrorism
By Dr Amy Batley | 01 October 2025
A new counter-terrorism system – ACT for local authorities – puts the emphasis on five areas of...
SAFEGUARDING
Red flags and boiling frogs: a damning picture that the National Youth Strategy must fix
By Leigh Middleton | 22 September 2025
With the Government's National Youth Strategy due to be published, Leigh Middleton warns that wit...
HUMAN RIGHTS
Fears over lack of teeth behind mandatory reporting duty
By Neil Merrick | 14 July 2025
Government plans to make it a mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse need to be backed up wi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: LGA tells councils to hold fire on grooming response
By Dan Peters | 22 May 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged councils not to respond to a request from a priv...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Lambeth defends Dosunmu payoff
By Joe Lepper | 28 April 2025
Lambeth LBC has defended a payoff totalling almost £88,000 to its former chief who admitted faili...
LEGAL
Trial dates fixed for Liverpool City Council corruption case
By Dan Peters | 25 April 2025
Trial dates have been fixed for two senior officers charged as part of an investigation into Live...
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