Elections

By Martin Ford | 05 July 2023

Elections teams will require more backing from their councils to run future polls.

WHITEHALL

Make it local

By Mark Lloyd | 04 July 2023

Looking ahead to a General Election, Mark Lloyd says the Local Government Association, as the nat...

LEGISLATION

Man on a mission

By Heather Jameson | 04 July 2023

The Local Government Association’s new chair Cllr Shaun Davies says the old ways of doing things ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Optimistic nihilism

By Jonathan Carr-West | 04 July 2023

It feels like local government is close to breaking point, but it doesn’t have to be this way, sa...

FINANCE

Power through partnership

By Tom Riordan | 04 July 2023

More than a decade after the Commission on the Future of Local Government, and as we advance towa...

Warning sounded over General Election

By Martin Ford | 03 July 2023

Elections experts were united in warning of a struggle to run future polls as they faced question...

WHITEHALL

Enough chaos and confusion, now we need solutions

By Heather Jameson | 28 June 2023

No one got everything right during the pandemic, but the early days showed a failure of central G...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Opportunity knocks for the sector

27 June 2023

Ahead of next week’s Local Government Association (LGA) annual conference in Bournemouth, The MJ ...

ELECTIONS

Uncertainty has made me very certain about the value of some things

By Gill Kneller | 26 June 2023

East Hampshire's elections revealed a hung council. Chief executive Gill Kneller says 'what stood...

DEVOLUTION

Revealing excellence

By Heather Jameson | 26 June 2023

The MJ Achievement Awards were an opportunity to put the energy, hard work and creativity of loca...

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