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

Unitaries are much less likely than Metropolitan councils and London boroughs to consider taking ...

Social care is being addressed as a priority in Number 10. President of the Association of Direct...

A council plans to put an extra £12m in the hands of its 30,000 care workers by adding two per ce...

Director of the New Local Government Network, Adam Lent, talks to Ann McGauran about the impact m...

A single, unitary authority for Somerset would deliver a predicted saving of £35-£47m, according ...

The first formal review of the 15 funds in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Scotland h...

Kirklees MBC is favouring the option of returning thousands of council homes to the management of...

The chancellor’s claim that homelessness has reduced by almost half since 2008 ‘absolutely beggar...

It’s been a year notable for things that never were – the Spending Review, social care Green Pape...

Local government will put forward its vision of a reformed social care funding system to the next...