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COMMUNICATIONS
A nine-point guide to COVID-19 crisis communications
By Richard Stokoe | 31 March 2020
Communications has often been seen as a luxury, says Richard Stokoe – but this time it is ‘at the...
CLIMATE CHANGE
We need to be ready to cope with the next shock
By Ian Miller | 27 March 2020
When the opportunity to reflect comes, Ian Miller feels the conclusion may be reached that the UK...
SOCIAL CARE
We will do everything we can to save lives
By Martin Swales | 26 March 2020
The national COVID-19 emergency is seeing the very best of our councils and our workforces and we...
SOLACE
The work of local government has become 'even more urgent'
By Ann McGauran | 26 March 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting ‘the very best of councils and our workforces’, accordin...
PAY
Former Solace chief takes crisis pay cut
By Heather Jameson | 25 March 2020
Former Solace president Jo Miller has taken a 10% pay cut as her council launched a range of meas...
ENVIRONMENT
The benefits of digital aid
By Charles Skinner | 25 March 2020
Charles Skinner argues any proven off-the-shelf system that can join up many players during incid...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
We will see the very best of local councils
By Simon Edwards | 23 March 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, counties are ‘doing what they have done in an understated way for s...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Ten days that changed everything
By Ian Fytche | 23 March 2020
Ian Fytche says delaying and suppressing the spread of the virus, protecting vulnerable people an...
SOCIAL CARE
Councils need a breathing space
By Ian Miller | 23 March 2020
Councils’ priorities are now focused on fighting coronavirus, says Ian Miller – and this urgently...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Often the answers lie within the communities we serve
By Ian Thomas | 20 March 2020
These are early days for COVID-19 and there is much more to do, says Ian Thomas as he outlines ho...
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