ECONOMIC GROWTH

Relax planning rules to stimulate growth

By Jason Longhurst | 18 January 2022

Creating Levelling Up Investment Areas would empower Government and councils to transform places ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Place based budgets should be implemented at a town level

By Daniel Harper | 18 January 2022

In his article in a paper offering views ahead of the levelling up White Paper from economic deve...

WHITEHALL

There's a whiff of purpose once more on devolution

By Jessica Studdert | 17 January 2022

Devolution should rock the status quo and create a new culture of governance which pushes everyon...

AUSTERITY

Mind the gap between levelling up 'rhetoric and reality,' think-tank warns

By William Eichler | 17 January 2022

Central Government policies have undermined the levelling up agenda and left the UK more regional...

HEALTH

The stakes are high for the levelling up White Paper

By Erica Roscoe | 17 January 2022

The Levelling Up White Paper must seek to broaden and deepen devolution, and provide a framework ...

DEVOLUTION

Birmingham has a bold vision for levelling up

By Cllr Ian Ward | 13 January 2022

The levelling up White Paper must show how double devolution can deliver opportunities for every ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Creating net-zero public engagement

By Sarah Allan | 13 January 2022

Local Climate Engagement is a project to support local authorities or partnerships to plan, commi...

FINANCE

Will this year see lift-off for local government?

By Heather Jameson | 11 January 2022

If Mr Gove is to deliver the aims of levelling up, to strengthen local leadership, boost civic pr...

COUNCILLORS

Standards: the search for common ground

By John Tizard | 11 January 2022

John Tizard says collaboration within and between sectors will be crucial to ‘building back bette...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

EXCLUSIVE: Councils should consider pressures index similar to NHS

11 January 2022

Local government should look at introducing a pressures index similar to the NHS to measure the r...

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Corporate Director of Children and Family Services

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Forged through an industrial past, Stoke-on-Trent is a city with creativity and kindness at its heart. Apply for this job

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Strategic Director Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities

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