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Research: Youth services on the brink

By Sam Clayden | 07 November 2017

An exclusive survey reveals a bleak outlook for council-delivered youth servivces. Sam Clayden re...

EXCLUSIVE: Survey paints grim picture for youth services

By Sam Clayden | 07 November 2017

Just one in 10 senior children’s services professionals believe local government has a future in ...

Combined authority deputy mayor resigns

By Sam Clayden | 07 November 2017

The deputy mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has resigned after jus...

Austerity 'unlikely to end' despite public's desire for more spending

By Sam Clayden | 03 November 2017

The much-debated ending of austerity is ‘unlikely’, according to the National Audit Office’s (NAO...

Sector figures demand rewrite of 'failing' economic model

By Sam Clayden | 02 November 2017

Senior sector figures have demanded a radical shake-up of the nation's failing economy. 

Whitehall's failure to consult sector has led to 'poor policy'

By Sam Clayden | 02 November 2017

The Government’s failure to co-produce its strategies with local government has led to ‘poor poli...

Traditional chief executive skillset 'not enough'

By Sam Clayden | 31 October 2017

Exclusive: The MJ/SOLACE survey calls for leadership to continue developing to cope with an envir...

A force for change

By Sam Clayden | 31 October 2017

The police are operating within a very similar context of austerity, uncertainty and technologica...

'We need to keep evolving'

By Sam Clayden | 31 October 2017

The sand is shifting beneath the feet of council chief executives. Becky Shaw and Henry Kippin di...

Holding up the mirror

By Sam Clayden | 31 October 2017

Jo Miller speaks to Sam Clayden about the changes throughout her first year as SOLACE president a...