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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

FINANCE

Welfare is the big elephant in the room

By Michael Burton | 27 June 2012

Michael Burton looks at the challenge behind David Cameron's assault on the welfare regime.

FINANCE

Sunderland scoops top MJ award

By Michael Burton | 27 June 2012

Sunderland City Council received the accolade of being judged the Best Achieving Council in the U...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Don't blame councils for local press decline

By Michael Burton | 20 June 2012

The yardstick of any newspaper should be its readership take-up, met by providing what people wan...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils still making job cuts, official figures show.

By Michael Burton | 20 June 2012

Local government still shedding staff with 33,000 fewer jobs in the first quarter of this year, l...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Unfinished business for Birmingham's new leader

By Michael Burton | 13 June 2012

Labour and its leader Sir Albert Bore are back in power in Birmingham and determined to complete ...

WHITEHALL

Police forces face new era of reform

By Michael Burton | 13 June 2012

Michael Burton asks why are Tory ministers so keen on police reform?

FINANCE

Councils place trust in troubled families idea

By Michael Burton | 13 June 2012

Eric Pickles has announced upper tier councils have accepted the offer to run a 'payment by resul...

FINANCE

The MJ Future Forum: Challenges, threats and opportunities from next year's budget settlement

By Michael Burton | 12 June 2012

Top speakers attended The MJ’s inaugural Future Forum event for council chief executives on May 2...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Behan is new chief of the Care Quality Commission

By Michael Burton | 08 June 2012

Whitehall social care chief David Behan is to become the next chief executive of the troubled Car...

FINANCE

Pension deal will hit small providers

By Michael Burton | 07 June 2012

The local government pension deal is a sensible compromise in which both employees and employers ...

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