Articles by Mark Conrad
Prevent strategy 'in need of reform'
By Mark Conrad | 09 August 2017
The Home Office’s Prevent strategy, aimed at stopping terrorism, is effective at local level but ...
Leader denies 'witch-hunt' to slash senior management roles
By Mark Conrad | 02 August 2017
Lancashire CC’s leader has denied claims his plan to slash senior management posts was linked to ...
Legal action over data leak
By Mark Conrad | 02 August 2017
Newcastle City Council is facing legal action over a data leak that exposed the personal details ...
Union slams suspension of backdated social care 'sleep-in' staff payments
By Mark Conrad | 02 August 2017
Whitehall action to prop-up social care providers has been criticised by local government’s large...
Lambeth accused of U-turn over compensation for abuse survivors
By Mark Conrad | 02 August 2017
The chairman of an influential child abuse survivors group has accused Lambeth LBC of a U-turn ov...
Town hall terror warning
By Mark Conrad | 02 August 2017
Inconsistency in how safeguarding concerns relating to extremism are recorded is hampering counci...
Scale of overtime revealed by union
By Mark Conrad | 01 August 2017
A third of social workers regularly work unpaid overtime in order to keep local authority service...
Restructure plans on hold – but 'not dead'
By Mark Conrad | 26 July 2017
Lancashire CC’s leader could reprise controversial plans to overhaul his senior management team –...
Call to scrap Barnett formula after Brexit
By Mark Conrad | 26 July 2017
The controversial Barnett formula should be scrapped following Brexit and replaced with a needs-b...
Minister in talks to place more 'Dubs children' in care of UK authorities
By Mark Conrad | 26 July 2017
Immigration minister Brandon Lewis travelled to Greece and Italy this week to discuss placing mor...
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