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Michael Burton

Michael Burton

Michael Burton is editorial director of The MJ

Articles by Michael Burton

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A single pot or a patchwork quilt?

By Michael Burton | 19 July 2013

Ministers cannot resist the temptation to keep creating new entities that further sub-divide loca...

FINANCE

How Eleanor went undercover as Evelyn

By Michael Burton | 18 July 2013

Southwark LBC’s chief executive Eleanor Kelly was recently asked by Channel 4 to be one of its su...

Devil is in the detail for health and care merger

By Michael Burton | 11 July 2013

Michael Burton on the political and practical implications of integration.

HEALTH

Care reforms 'could cost councils billions'

By Jamie Hailstone | 11 July 2013

Town hall and third sector groups have raised fresh concerns over government plans to reform soci...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

CIPFA 2013: Debate about the state yet to begin, says Flanders

By Michael Burton | 10 July 2013

Welfare and health will increasingly take a greater share of public spending at expense of public...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Tories fear 'decimation' at polls amid EU elections overspill

By Michael Burton | 05 July 2013

Conservative councillors concerned they will be decimated in 2014 local polls taking place at sa...

HEALTH

LGA Conference 2013: Hunt calls for 'seamless' health and care service

By Michael Burton | 05 July 2013

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for ‘a seamless service’ between health and care and set ...

Time for big ideas on transformation

By Michael Burton | 03 July 2013

The Spending Review last week was anything but a ‘transformational’ budget, says Michael Burton.

FINANCE

Watch out for smoke and mirrors on 'efficiency savings'

By Michael Burton | 27 June 2013

Michael Burton queries credibility of target figure of £5bn Government efficiency savings in 2015...

WHITEHALL

Labour lays out its stall for 2015/16

By Michael Burton | 26 June 2013

It was inevitable that the Spending Review 2015/16 this week would prove to be a political as wel...

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