Education

By Dr Marius S Ostrowski | 08 March 2022

Dr Marius Ostrowski says Local Skills Improvement Plans, one of the Government’s key Levelling Up...

Council to bring some services back in-house

By Laura Sharman | 17 February 2022

Staffordshire CC will bring a small number of services back in-house following a review of its 10...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Devolution for all: Gove unveils long-awaited White Paper

By Heather Jameson | 02 February 2022

By 2030, every part of England that wants one will have a devolution deal, the Government’s long-...

HEALTH

Local government: too big and too small?

By Professor Colin Talbot | 26 January 2022

Local government could be strengthened and made more democratically responsive by making it small...

WHITEHALL

Councils warned against 'precautionary' school closures

By Martin Ford | 15 December 2021

The Government has told councils schools should not be closed unless there is a ‘public health em...

BUSINESS

Spielman: No silver bullet for children's social care

By Chris Mahony | 07 December 2021

Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman has warned there is no ‘silver bullet’ to the long-term pr...

EDUCATION

Rethinking support for young people

By Anna Smee | 01 December 2021

The Connected Futures Fund seeks to transform how young people are supported into work in places ...

SOCIAL CARE

Call for fresh powers from ombudsman

By Dan Peters | 30 November 2021

England’s local government ombudsman today demands wide-ranging new powers to investigate complai...

WHITEHALL

National review after concerns at children's homes

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2021

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has commissioned a national review in the wake of Ofsted deregi...

EDUCATION

Labour 'will prioritise early intervention'

By Ann McGauran | 26 November 2021

The next Labour government will prioritise early intervention and provide open access mental heal...

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