Ian Hudspeth

  • What’s next after the collapse of the Oxfordshire Plan 2050?

    19 August 2022

    Ian Hudspeth asks what will happen to strategic planning in Oxfordshire after the loss of at least £750m in infrastructure funding following the demise of the joint spatial plan.

  • Adult social care – one year on

    03 July 2019

    Cllr Ian Hudspeth expands on the LGA’s proposals for the long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care and calls for it to be published before Parliament rises for recess

  • NHS long term plan only offers part of the solution

    14 January 2019

    Chairman of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board Ian Hudspeth says until social care is fully funded and public health budget cuts reversed, pumping funding into the NHS continues to be the same as 'pouring water into a sink with no plug in it'.

  • In high need of a funding solution

    09 May 2018

    Over the last few years, much progress has been made to highlight the growing pressures in both children’s services and schools funding for councils.

  • We are trying to find a solution

    21 September 2016

    Oxfordshire CC leader Cllr Ian Hudspeth on his attempts to find a consensus on local government reorganisation

  • Giving children a chance in straitened times

    04 January 2016

    Despite financial limitations in children’s services, counties are doing commendable work in stretched circumstances. Cllr Ian Hudspeth looks at ways to overcome some of the challenges

  • Devolution is our nation's way out of debt

    22 May 2015

    The leaders of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire CCs on why they welcome central government's devolution drive.