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POVERTY

Moving closer to provision everywhere that genuinely prevents child poverty

By Jon Rowney | 18 December 2025

Jon Rowney says that while the difference the Budget will make in terms of scrapping the two-chil...

FINANCE

A Budget for the long term

By Jon Rowney | 05 November 2025

Short-term pressures should not obscure the need for radical action to achieve long-term sustaina...

FINANCE

Telling a stronger story about growth

By Jon Rowney | 24 September 2025

As leaders of place, local councils are uniquely positioned to steward economic growth that is in...

FINANCE

The cost of fair funding

By Jon Rowney | 07 August 2025

Housing costs must be included in measures of deprivation as part of the fair funding review, wri...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

The chancellor set the roadmap for how the Government will deliver its missions

By Jon Rowney | 25 June 2025

Alongside the Test, Learn and Grow programme, the new approach to public service reform set out i...

FINANCE

Councils operate in an adult social care system that needs fundamental reform

By Jon Rowney | 18 May 2025

When Dame Louise Casey’s commission on adult social care delivers its recommendations, two condit...

FINANCE

A chance to step back and reflect on funding reform

By Jon Rowney | 04 April 2025

The sector needs a way of raising concerns when funding settlements are out of step with its purp...

The power of prevention

By Jon Rowney | 19 February 2025

Jon Rowney looks at the emergence of a shift to prevention in grant funding.

FINANCE

This Budget was a first step

By Jon Rowney | 07 November 2024

Jon Rowney anticipates a stronger indication of Government’s approach to public sector reform in ...

OFLOG

Rethinking Oflog

By Jon Rowney | 26 September 2024

An opportunity exists to rethink what a sustainable and purpose-led assurance framework for local...

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