Articles by Jon Rowney
Rethinking Oflog
By Jon Rowney | 26 September 2024
An opportunity exists to rethink what a sustainable and purpose-led assurance framework for local...
Mission: possible
By Jon Rowney | 12 September 2024
Jon Rowney says the next Comprehensive Spending Review will be one of the few opportunities that ...
To succeed, a missions approach need to be a collective endeavour
By Jon Rowney | 09 August 2024
Missions should be ambitious enough to require organisations to innovate to achieve long-term goa...
Stabilising the current financial landscape is not straightforward
By Jon Rowney | 26 June 2024
A funding system that better reflects the capacity and potential for impact of the sector is need...
Costly housing crisis support crowds out prevention
By Jon Rowney | 15 May 2024
Jon Rowney says financial pressure on councils caused by the lack of affordable homes risks beco...
Net zero: Something more radical is needed
By Jon Rowney | 03 April 2024
We need to harness national, regional and local public sector leadership that engages with citize...
Who can solve the council tax conundrum?
By Jon Rowney | 13 March 2024
In the latest of The MJ’s series outlining a new vision for local government, drawing from the Ly...
It's time to sufficiently acknowledge and fund councils' safety net role
By Jon Rowney | 09 January 2024
Councils have had to rise to the challenge of a national social security system which is fragment...
Working in harmony is crucial to fixing the housing crisis
By Jon Rowney | 08 November 2023
Councils, don’t hold all the power when it comes to solving the housing crisis, says Jon Rowney. ...
Missions budgeting in a challenging funding context
By Jon Rowney | 27 September 2023
Public sector recovery and renewal, with limited fiscal headroom to fund more than stabilisation,...
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