Covid

By Mark Conrad | 31 January 2022

A ‘chronic’ lack of funding for council services amid soaring demand means many communities face ...

BUSINESS

Business grants fraud warning

By Dan Peters | 31 January 2022

Councils across the country have reported receiving scores of fraudulent applications for busines...

CENTRE FOR CITIES

Poorer places are exiting COVID with the same problems they started with

By Andrew Carter | 31 January 2022

Many less affluent places fared better through the pandemic than more prosperous places, but whil...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Minding the skills gap in Waltham Forest

By Martin Esom | 31 January 2022

Waltham Forest’s swift response to the HGV driver shortage is an example of a national problem wi...

PAY

Council staff need support through the cost of living crisis

By Mike Short | 31 January 2022

In the context of the cost of living crisis, the workers who supported communities through the to...

FINANCE

Staff shortages 'clear and present danger'

By Martin Ford | 31 January 2022

The extent of widespread workforce disruption has been discussed by senior members of the Local G...

Get off our back!

26 January 2022

What with this ongoing COVID malarkey, we’ve all got the hump.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Where does place-making fit into post-pandemic life?

By Hannah Doody | 26 January 2022

Merton LBC has completed its widest-ever engagement programme on what a post-pandemic borough in ...

MJ AWARDS

Let's hear it for Rochdale's community heroes

By Nick Kilby | 26 January 2022

The success of Rochdale MBC in empowering people to solve their own communities’ needs soon becam...

WHITEHALL

Towards a more viable localism

By Dr Patrick Diamond | 26 January 2022

Making English localism succeed needs a reform agenda for the whole of Government, says Dr Patric...

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