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Jonathan Carr-West

Jonathan Carr-West

Dr Jonathan Carr-West is chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)

Articles by Jonathan Carr-West

Getting to grips at local level

By Jonathan Carr-West | 05 May 2015

Dr Jonathan Carr-West sets the scene for this year’s local elections.

The signal and the noise

By Jonathan Carr-West | 10 March 2015

After Rotherham and Oxfordshire’s serious case reviews, we must be cautious about instigating a b...

Election opportunities

By Jonathan Carr-West | 26 January 2015

Like all new governments, the next administration will take some time to find its feet, writes Dr...

Metro-centralism peril

By Jonathan Carr-West | 11 November 2014

There’s a risk of replacing excessive centralism with excessive metro-centralism if the devolouti...

Re-imagining our municipal future

By Jonathan Carr-West | 19 June 2014

Dr Jonathan Carr-West seeks to reclaim ‘municipal’ as a word local government can use with pride ...

Ambiguous outcomes

By Jonathan Carr-West | 29 May 2014

Jonathan Carr-West examines who won, who lost and what the results of last week’s local elections...

Councils fire up their synapses

By Jonathan Carr-West | 23 April 2014

Public services must act as conduit across which social action can travel, writes Dr Jonathan Car...

Councils overlooked in obesity epidemic

By Jonathan Carr-West | 15 January 2014

Strategic role of councils curious by its omission given nation's losing battle against obesity, ...

Connecting with the people

By Jonathan Carr-West | 04 December 2013

The LGiU asked 30 leading industry figures to report on how the concept of ‘Connected Localism’ w...

When the party's over

By Jonathan Carr-West | 08 October 2013

As the party conferences close for another year, Dr Jonathan Carr-West considers the growing dist...