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'Push ahead with devo until you're told to stop'

By Sam Clayden | 14 December 2017

Local leaders should keep pushing the limits of devolution until they are told to stop, the chief...

Ofsted: Lack of secure units denying vulnerable children help

By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017

The lack of secure children’s units is denying care to the most vulnerable young people and could...

North of Tyne: A deal for the people

By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017

After much wrangling, the three councils North of the Tyne have struck a landmark devolution deal...

A leap into the unknown

By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017

Sam Clayden guides us through the biggest events of a tumultuous year.

Child protection inquiry figures double in a decade

By Sam Clayden | 12 December 2017

Councils are undertaking more than double the number of child protection investigations than they...

Disjointed departments derailing inclusion drive

By Sam Clayden | 07 December 2017

Whitehall departments’ differing appetites to devolve will scupper the Industrial Strategy and ef...

Council leaders demand end to pay cap

By Sam Clayden | 07 December 2017

Nearly 100 council leaders have written to the chancellor demanding extra funding for workers and...

Universal Credit reports to be released to committee

By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2017

Pensions secretary David Gauke has reluctantly agreed to release a series of Universal Credit imp...

A response to the Industrial Strategy white paper

By Sam Clayden | 05 December 2017

Shaping the Industrial Strategy is among the most pressing challenges facing local authority lead...

LGA chief says BCF has 'come to end of its life'

By Sam Clayden | 01 December 2017

The Better Care Fund (BCF) in its current form has ‘come to the end of it’s life’, the chief exec...