LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Community power – a step forwards?

By Heather Jameson | 09 September 2020

A recent virtual round table debate hosted by The MJ discussed the recent trend towards councils ...

PUBLIC HEALTH

New gatherings limit welcomed by director

By John Cooper | 09 September 2020

The Government’s decision to tighten English laws to ban nearly all gatherings of more than six p...

FINANCE

Is there the political will to push through reorganisation?

By Heather Jameson | 09 September 2020

Simon Clarke's unexpected resignation as local government minister begs the question of what happ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

How to drive a green recovery

By Ahmed Goga | 08 September 2020

Ahmed Goga  explains the levers that local and central government policymakers can deploy to driv...

PUBLIC HEALTH

We must rapidly improve Test and Trace

By Dominic Harrison | 08 September 2020

If we want to prevent more avoidable mortality in a second pandemic wave this winter ‘we are goin...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Booting up for a new career in coding

By Andy Street | 08 September 2020

Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street explains how coding bootcamps are helping learners from th...

WHITEHALL

Stretched testing capacity to be scaled up

By Dan Peters | 08 September 2020

Brand new large-scale technology to increase the number of coronavirus tests that can be processe...

FINANCE

Dream team

By Cllr Paul Stewart | 08 September 2020

The introduction of a Community Wealth Fund would support the most ‘left behind’ wards in Sunderl...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The restructure we require is not to be found in our town halls

By Sarah Longlands | 08 September 2020

The devolution White Paper will reveal Boris Johnson's 'northern growth body'. But this will have...

DIGITAL

COVID and Brexit call for radical transformation

By Gill Kneller | 08 September 2020

Havant BC and East Hampshire DC already have a shared chief executive and senior management team ...