PUBLIC HEALTH

Public health leads 'playing "whack-a-mole" blindfolded'

By Dr Lisa McNally | 06 July 2020

Dr Lisa McNally says the absence of workplace information from data on COVID-19 testing leaves co...

WHITEHALL

Councils in local virus data call

By Dan Peters | 03 July 2020

Councils have called for the Government to go further after it finally started to publish more co...

WHITEHALL

Jenrick: We'll back local government

By Dan Peters | 02 July 2020

Robert Jenrick has promised that Whitehall will back local government in the same way councils ‘s...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Opening up access to UPRNs and USRNs

By Nick Chapallaz | 02 July 2020

Nick Chapallaz, Managing Director at GeoPlace, discusses how open access to UPRNs and USRNs is se...

PLANNING

Supporting more democratic, responsive urban planning and design

By Sophie Reynolds | 02 July 2020

In one of a series of essays on how the wisdom of citizens could support councils in managing cit...

HEALTH

In the dark over local lockdowns

By Dan Peters | 08 June 2020

Local areas remain in the dark about whether they will be handed any additional powers to impose ...

COUNCIL TAX

Let's look out for our residents

By Deven Ghelani | 02 June 2020

As the lockdown reduces it has never been more important for councils to proactively identify and...

SOCIAL CARE

Slipping through the cracks

By Wajid Shafiq | 01 June 2020

CIPFA and Xantura have set up a data partnership to support the local authority fight against COV...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Government U-turn on shielding data request

By Dan Peters | 29 May 2020

The Government has rowed back from demanding councils provide a wide range of data on their shiel...

PUBLIC HEALTH

COVID-19: Is Government really led by the science?

By Jason Lowther | 21 May 2020

Jason Lowther argues that building in practical knowledge from councils and emergency planners co...