MANAGEMENT

From good to great

By Julie Towers | 07 October 2020

In the wake of The MJ’s successful virtual achievement awards last week, Penna’s Julie Towers tak...

HEALTH

Data to face the dangers ahead

By Naheed Chaudhry | 07 October 2020

To avoid making the same mistakes in adult social care, we need to use data intelligently to plan...

ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES

Compassion, care and reconstruction

By Benjamin Taylor | 07 October 2020

Now is the time to focus on vision, strategy, and creating a purposeful and inspiring future for ...

DEVOLUTION

Whatever happened to devolution?

By Dr Arianna Giovannini | 07 October 2020

Devolution is an ‘unfinished’, disconnected project that benefits some areas but excludes others,...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Digging deep for change

By Neil McInroy | 07 October 2020

The pandemic has not resulted in the big changes required to protect health and drive widespread ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Pulling children out of poverty

By Jenny Coles | 06 October 2020

Poverty is not inevitable or ‘someone else’s problem’. President of the ADCS Jenny Coles looks at...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

A very blunt instrument

By Carolyne Willow | 06 October 2020

Carolyne Willow says it is to this Government’s shame that it found time to carry out a ‘massive ...

MJ AWARDS

A time to celebrate the success of local government

By Heather Jameson | 06 October 2020

The MJ Achievement Awards may not have been the usual annual gala dinner and a glitzy awards cere...

PUBLIC HEALTH

EXCLUSIVE: Minister moves to head off political rows

By Martin Ford | 06 October 2020

The Government has moved to increase the influence of local political opinions in advance of it c...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Rebooting our sector

By Katherine Fairclough | 06 October 2020

Solace’s week of virtual learning Reflect.Reset.Re-imagine has begun. Here, three Solace spokesp...