PUBLIC HEALTH

Heed us on contact tracing, urges public health chief

By John Cooper | 01 May 2020

Councils’ public health teams and their leaders need to be at the heart of discussions about any ...

PUBLIC HEALTH

The view from the ground on contact tracing

By Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy | 01 May 2020

The crucial issue of contact tracing is a chance to reset the local, regional and national relati...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Government forced to correct 'name and shame' data

By Dan Peters | 28 April 2020

Councils have been left furious after government data on how quickly councils are doling out gran...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Government blocks release of coronavirus modelling

By Dan Peters | 27 April 2020

The Cabinet Office is understood to be blocking the release of key data on expected coronavirus i...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

Supporting the fight against Covid-19 with community hub software

By Peter O'Hara | 20 April 2020

OLM has developed software  - free to councils until the end of September - that acts as an onlin...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

Collective Crisis Intelligence

By Peter Baeck | 20 April 2020

Peter Baeck looks at how local authorities can best harness collective crisis intelligence to gat...

DIGITAL

Using data to respond to COVID-19

By Juan Mateos-Garcia | 08 April 2020

Tom Symons and Juan Mateos-Garcia of Nesta examine how local government can make use of data to s...

SOCIAL CARE

Redesigning collaboration along County Lines

By Ian Blackhurst | 31 March 2020

Ian Blackhurst explains why local authorities, the police and partner agencies need to share info...

DIGITAL

Where are your services on the Smart City journey?

By Michael Burton | 25 March 2020

With technology moving into the next era of 5G and AI, The MJ and BT recently conducted a survey ...

WHITEHALL

Government working to ensure 'networks remain resilient'

By Paul Marinko | 23 March 2020

The Government has said it is ‘in regular contact’ with broadband and mobile operators to make su...