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EMERGENCY PLANNING
Finding 'ordinary' ways to build up local resilience
By Jim Savege | 16 February 2026
By mobilising community groups, councils are building proactive ways of responding to emergencie...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Building budgets around places
By Stephen Taylor | 12 February 2026
Stephen Taylor says that if place-based budgeting is done in the right way, people and communitie...
DATA & DIGITAL
Collective working can resolve our communities' biggest issues
By Tony Clements | 11 February 2026
Tony Clements says that in order to meet the needs of citizens, councils need new methods, new wa...
FINANCE
Coventry axes annual festival to save cash
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2026
Coventry City Council has taken the ‘difficult decision’ not to run its three-day annual music an...
LEADERSHIP
We must hold onto place-based leadership
By Maxine O'Mahony | 30 January 2026
Maxine O’Mahony says: 'We must preserve place-based leadership, visible presence, trusted relatio...
COHESION
Rising community tensions say council chiefs
By Paul Marinko | 28 January 2026
A new survey of senior council officers has found nearly three quarters (74%) feel community tens...
COHESION
Rebuilding the scaffolding to repair communities
By Paul Marinko | 28 January 2026
Community tensions have been rising in the last year, a new survey by Starfish Search has found. ...
FUEL POVERTY
Why we mustn't lose sight of people while we fix buildings
By Graham Duxbury | 26 January 2026
Graham Duxbury welcomes the Government’s Warm Homes Plan and says that localised support such as ...
GOVERNANCE
The stakes for democracy are high and the challenges of local governance remain
By Kersten England | 26 January 2026
Kersten England predicts continued social and political turbulence through 2026 and says collabor...
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
Genuinely local government could be lost to regionalism in the name of 'devolution'
By Cllr Richard Wright | 26 January 2026
'Around the world we see horrifying examples of central government overreach. Such awful things m...
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Up to £112k
You’ll provide overall strategic direction and professional leadership to our Legal and Democratic Services team Apply for this job
Director of Digital & IT (CDIO)
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You will establish a clear and ambitious digital strategy, bringing together technology, data, information governance and service transformation Apply for this job
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