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EDUCATION
Councillors call extraordinary meeting over director secondment
By Martin Ford | 23 March 2021
Councillors in Stockport said they had been ‘treated with contempt’ after a joint director with T...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Pressure mounts over SEND grant deficit
By EXCLUSIVE By Dan Peters | 17 February 2021
Councils are facing renewed pressure from the Department for Education (DfE) to make cuts to brin...
EDUCATION
Cheshire leaders put concerns to Government on jabs, lockdown and schools
By Ann McGauran | 13 January 2021
Council leaders in Cheshire and their partners have written to the Government laying out their co...
EDUCATION
Council defies government by closing nurseries
By Martin Ford | 08 January 2021
A council has closed all of its nurseries to prevent the spread of COVID-19 despite the Governmen...
EDUCATION
Councils resist pressure to reopen schools
By Martin Ford | 04 January 2021
Scores of councils have raised concerns over the return of primary school pupils to classrooms am...
EDUCATION
Listening to and acting on young people's lockdown stories
By Daisy Carter | 23 December 2020
Innovation Unit has drawn up a set of recommendations for any local authority to build an ecosyst...
WHITEHALL
Government issues legal threats to councils and schools
By Martin Ford | 15 December 2020
Councils this week clashed with the Government over whether to shut schools amid a surge in COVID...
SOCIAL CARE
Birmingham loses a political giant
By Brigid Jones | 12 November 2020
Brigid Jones pays tribute to Theresa Stewart – the only woman to have led Britain’s largest local...
SOCIAL CARE
Starmer vows to tackle the 'decade of drift' on sorting social care
By Heather Jameson | 22 September 2020
Government failure to protect care homes during the pandemic is a ‘national scandal’, Labour lead...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Inspiring a new generation
By Nancy Scott | 14 September 2020
Future First works with state schools and colleges to link young people with alumni and employers...
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