Communications

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2020

Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s chief executive has expressed doubts about whether his re...

BUSINESS

PR strategist's hall of shame

12 June 2020

Diary is inundated with press releases, speeches and blog posts on a regular basis.

WHITEHALL

Care home plans deadline unrealistic, say councils

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2020

Councils have warned that tomorrow’s deadline for producing care home support plans is ‘unrealist...

LEGAL

Why localism is needed for behaviour change

By Dan Corry | 20 May 2020

Councils can be key – as can local community groups and charities – in setting social norms that ...

WHITEHALL

Councils resist government's changed 'stay alert' message

By Dan Peters | 15 May 2020

Areas with higher coronavirus rates have urged residents to stay at home amid fears the Governmen...

There is an opportunity to dump the centralist approach

By Heather Jameson | 13 May 2020

Tackling the coronavirus crisis has been held back by a ‘central government know best’ approach, ...

COMMUNICATIONS

Twitter or bitter?

By Donna Ball | 11 May 2020

Senior local government officer Donna Ball says that during the pandemic she has had to block agg...

COMMUNICATIONS

Solving the biggest challenge of our times

By Liz Watts | 21 April 2020

Liz Watts explains how she and South Cambridgeshire DC have responded rapidly to the COVID-19 cri...

THIRD SECTOR

We have an opportunity to re-boot and take stock

By Gill Kneller | 15 April 2020

Local authorities have by necessity become far more introspective than ever before as they've bee...

MANAGEMENT

11 steps to ensuring outstanding internal comms

By Richard Stokoe | 14 April 2020

The importance to councils of outstanding internal communications cannot be underestimated during...

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