Articles by Sam Clayden
District deal's bid to cement authorities' two-tier alliance
By Sam Clayden | 10 January 2017
West Sussex CC and Crawley BC have signed a ‘district deal’ in a bid to strengthen partnership wo...
'Ditch big, top-down solutions,' councils told
By Sam Clayden | 10 January 2017
‘Transformation is dead’ and should be replaced by rapid cycles of discovery and experimentation,...
18 councils targeted to test-run voter identification scheme
By Sam Clayden | 09 January 2017
The Government has committed to trialling controversial measures requiring voters to show identif...
Swale BC considering interim boss
By Sam Clayden | 05 January 2017
Swale BC’s director of corporate services, Mark Radford, has been put forward to fill the council...
LGA: Devolve 'outdated' growth funding system
By Sam Clayden | 03 January 2017
Council leaders have called for growth funding to be devolved amid concerns that the complex web ...
Number of late auditor opinions increases
By Sam Clayden | 20 December 2016
The proportion of council accounts that auditors were unable to issue timely opinions on has incr...
EXCLUSIVE: Health initiatives 'sideswiping' integration efforts
By Sam Clayden | 15 December 2016
The long line of new NHS and government initiatives with ever-changing priorities keeps knocking ...
Councils 'powerless' to stem hospital admissions
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016
Councils do not have the capacity to deal with NHS measures to reduce hospital admissions, the fo...
'Whitehall's failure to end trusts' charity claims wastes cash and harms health'
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016
Ministers’ failure to end a long-running legal dispute between NHS trusts and councils is wasting...
Law relaxed to meet need for more secure children's places
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016
Spiralling demand and dwindling supply has forced the Government to try to relax the law to allow...
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