How to innovate...

Alex Thomson looks at how local authorities can innovate at a time of austerity.

It is an oft-repeated truism that, in a time of austerity, local authorities must be innovative.

But, in a ‘policy platform', published by Localis this week, a distinguished group of local government experts argue that a golden opportunity – in the form of councils' trading powers – is being, for the most part, overlooked.

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