The latest articles written by Ann McGauran

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

The first version of a professional development framework to keep local government chief executiv...

Michael Gove has pledged to stop local authorities from implementing a four-day week and he said ...

Kensington and Chelsea LBC has become the first council to publish service standards co-designed ...

If central Government ‘won't step up’ it should stand aside and allow local and regional leaders ...

Central Government’s ‘man-marking’ of local decisions in the West Midlands is holding back progre...

Britain cannot afford Birmingham to be bust. Ann McGauran reports on what lies ahead and the plan...

A top children’s services director has called for the ‘very highly regarded’ mental health suppor...

Slough Council’s sacked chief executive Josie Wragg reflects on ways to predict organisational in...

Local government could face a tragedy similar to the case of the headteacher who took her own lif...

Paul Najsarek says these may not be easy times for public services, but a focus by councils on co...