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Meeting demand for out-of-hours services

By Paul Marinko | 10 January 2023

How can cash-strapped councils ensure they provide an effective out-of-hours customer service so ...

Government care home plan could create more problems, councils fear

By Paul Marinko | 09 January 2023

Councils fear the Government’s plans to buy up care home places to help with hospital discharges ...

Ireland named interim at Kingston

By Paul Marinko | 15 December 2022

Kingston LBC has named Sarah Ireland as its interim chief executive following the announcement th...

Future Forum North: Build individual relationships with mandarins

By Paul Marinko | 02 December 2022

Councils need to build individual relationships with Whitehall civil servants if they want to ach...

Future Forum North: More devolution will 'help with growth'

By Paul Marinko | 01 December 2022

More devolution will ‘help with growth,’ the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) t...

Future Forum North: Integration not the only panacea

By Paul Marinko | 01 December 2022

‘Integration is not the only panacea’ for solving all the challenges local government is facing, ...

Referendum push for Cornwall mayoral plans

By Paul Marinko | 24 November 2022

Plans for an elected mayor in Cornwall could face a referendum in a bid to force the decision bey...

Gove blocks cash for toddler death housing association

By Paul Marinko | 24 November 2022

Michael Gove has blocked the housing association linked to the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak ...

Autumn statement: Investment zones 'refocus'

By Paul Marinko | 17 November 2022

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has binned ‘existing expressions of interest’ from counci...

'Many chiefs have the wrong view of good' – Whiteman

By Paul Marinko | 16 November 2022

The chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has crit...