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Three wishes to transform children's care needs
CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Three wishes to transform children's care needs

By John Pearce | 05 March 2026

There are challenges endemic across children’s care nearly four years on from the MacAlister review, says John Pearce. Here, he focuses on three component parts of the system and sets out his prior...

LOCAL ECONOMIES

The first steps to getting young people working

By Ben Lucas | 03 March 2026

Ben Lucas says devolution of youth unemployment services is key to economic growth.

DEVOLUTION

The march of the metro mayors

By Vijay K Luthra | 21 January 2026

Patrick Diamond and Vijay K Luthra look at what England’s metro mayors can really change. And wha...

POLICY AND POLITICS

A bit more 'no, minister' is needed

By Michael Burton | 20 January 2026

A succession of government U-turns over badly-considered policies suggest the Whitehall machine i...

LEADERSHIP

A system for success

By Heather Jameson | 23 December 2025

Luton Council’s bold 2040 vision prioritises jobs, homes and safety. Heather Jameson talks to chi...

HOMELESSNESS

£3.5bn investment to 'end homelessness for good'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025

A cross-government plan to ‘end homelessness for good’ by preventing it before it occurs has been...

ADCS

Where every person can belong

By Rachael Wardell | 10 December 2025

Rachael Wardell says ending the two-child benefit cap is a welcome step. Mental health must now b...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Councils' concerns over access to holiday schemes

By Joe Lepper | 09 December 2025

Councils are concerned that the most vulnerable families are missing out on benefits of their hol...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Go North!

By Zoe Billingham | 04 December 2025

This Budget makes one thing clear: the Government is throwing its weight behind the North. Zoë Bi...

BUDGET 2025

Budget: Two-child benefit cap lifted

By Martin Ford | 26 November 2025

Abolition of the two-child benefit cap in today’s Budget has been welcomed as a ‘first step’ in t...

IMPROVEMENT

Safeguarding failure at Haringey

By William Eichler | 02 October 2025

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has exposed a major safeguarding failure at Haring...

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