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Journalist and content editor with 20+ years specialising in public policy. Still learning.

Financially struggling councils should ‘reach out for help’, says the interim chief executive of ...

A new online information site for scrutiny teams at Birmingham City Council should lead to a bett...

The ‘devil will be in the details’ of the Government’s proposed reforms to welfare, says the lead...

Ministers should commit to regular local government funding resets ideally every three years to t...

A new report from the National Audit Office on local government financial sustainability doubles ...

Making councils financially sustainable requires a whole government response led by the Ministry ...

District councils have ‘excluded' Leicestershire CC from meetings and discussions about future pl...

A new report from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy sets out a plan to tr...

The Government must give a South Worcestershire unitary council ‘serious consideration’, accordin...

The Government has the chance to turn round a failing SEND system by applying five principles for...