GOVERNANCE
Governance: evolution and experimentation
By Ed Hammond | 06 August 2024
Ed Hammond looks at the new Government’s ‘missions-led’ plans for public services and how this will necessitate a very different, experimental approach to local governance
WHITEHALL
Turn and face the changes
By Mel Stevens | 18 June 2024
As we head for a General Election, it’s a good time to reflect on what a new government will need...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Chief executives' development programme launched
By Dan Peters | 14 June 2024
A first-of-its-kind development programme designed to meet the needs and future challenges of chi...
FINANCE
1984 and all that
By Jonathan Werran | 30 April 2024
Forty years from the passing of the Rates Act, how relevant are the provisions designed to give c...
BUSINESS
Oflog should be handed audit oversight, MPs told
By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024
The Office for Local Government (Oflog) should be handed oversight of England’s broken audit regi...
AUDIT
Moving forward after failure
By Ed Hammond | 06 March 2024
Ed Hammond considers the governance challenges facing members under section 114 and other models ...
IMPROVEMENT
Brum blame culture still 'largely unaddressed'
By Heather Jameson | 04 December 2023
Birmingham City Council’s problems of governance and accountability are still ‘largely unaddresse...
FINANCE
Curating a good council and government system
By Ed Hammond | 21 November 2023
Ed Hammond says Oflog has the potential to make Government's actions and interventions more predi...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Animosity hampering scrutiny, investigation warns
By Mark Whitehead | 30 October 2023
Animosity between councillors and the mayor of an east London council are hampering proper scruti...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
East Devon chief expected to leave
By Dan Peters | 07 September 2023
The chief executive of East Devon DC is expected to leave ‘imminently’ once a settlement agreemen...
WHITEHALL
Sector to step up anti-mayor lobbying
By Dan Peters | 01 August 2023
The sector is to step up its lobbying for the Government to use its King’s Speech to end its fixa...
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