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
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A first-of-its-kind development programme designed to meet the needs and future challenges of chi...
Forty years from the passing of the Rates Act, how relevant are the provisions designed to give c...
The Office for Local Government (Oflog) should be handed oversight of England’s broken audit regi...
Ed Hammond considers the governance challenges facing members under section 114 and other models ...
Birmingham City Council’s problems of governance and accountability are still ‘largely unaddresse...
Ed Hammond says Oflog has the potential to make Government's actions and interventions more predi...
Animosity between councillors and the mayor of an east London council are hampering proper scruti...
The chief executive of East Devon DC is expected to leave ‘imminently’ once a settlement agreemen...
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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