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Abdool Kara

Abdool Kara

Abdool Kara is executive leader for local services at the National Audit Office and former chief execuitve of Swale BC

Articles by Abdool Kara

A new standards regime will be a good thing overall

By Abdool Kara | 13 March 2025

It looks likely that the Government will take forward the work of the Committee for Standards in ...

Innovation: the key

By Abdool Kara | 05 February 2025

Local government is feeling the squeeze. To transform services, it must unlock innovation, writes...

The makings of a fascinating year

By By Abdool Kara | 17 January 2025

Abdool Kara looks to the year ahead as 2024 closed with a flurry of government actions for the se...

A lot more to come from the NAO in 2025

By Abdool Kara | 11 December 2024

Abdool Kara says the National Audit Office continued to perform its public duty of supporting acc...

Who would bet against the number of councils dropping further?

By Abdool Kara | 24 October 2024

Unless there is unexpected largesse in the chancellor’s autumn statement, who will bet against th...

Integrated Care Systems should be a Petri dish of preventative experimentation

By By Abdool Kara | 17 September 2024

Of course, we need to prevent accidents and injuries, writes Abdool Kara, 'but might there be a r...

Squaring the housing need circle

By Abdool Kara | 23 August 2024

Councils not planning to meet today’s housing need, let alone that of generations to come, are no...

Gauging the benefit of productivity plans

By Abdool Kara | 30 April 2024

At the least the new Government requirement for productivity plans will give a platform for autho...

Making economic development a statutory duty for councils would be a rare win-win

By Abdool Kara | 06 March 2024

The sector wants to make economic development services a statutory duty for councils. Abdool Kara...

Don't hold your breath for immediate funding salvation

By Abdool Kara | 08 January 2024

Like Liam Byrne’s 2010 note to his successor suggesting there was no money left, an incoming gove...