HEALTH

Care and health issues put to test at 'local government fight club'

By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2013

NLGN event in Manchester saw experts spar verbally over key issues impeding progress to care and ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Troubled families programme hits half-way target

By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2013

Top-tier authorities now working with 62,000 chaotic households in £448m flagship payment-by-resu...

HEALTH

New assistant director joins Norfolk CC

By Jamie Hailstone | 22 November 2013

Norfolk CC announces Kevin Peers as new assistant director to its children’s services leadership ...

HEALTH

Changing behavioural interaction for a brave new future

By Martin Cresswell | 21 November 2013

Planning for a creative shift in demand management will become crucial for councils post-2015 arg...

FINANCE

Councils sign up for LG Futures' data review

By MJ Correspondent | 20 November 2013

Around 60 councils have signed up to a review of the adult social care funding formulae.

HEALTH

Moving to councils a 'positive experience' say public health directors

By Jamie Hailstone | 18 November 2013

Most directors of public health have found the move to local authorities a positive experience, a...

FINANCE

Report: Poor relationship between social services and GPs

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 November 2013

More than half of all GPs rate their relationship with adult social services as either poor or un...

FINANCE

Strategic Director for Economy, Transport and Environment

14 November 2013

HEALTH

Shifting the odds to early intervention

By Charles Ellis | 13 November 2013

A more strategic take on early intervention is vital, Charles Ellis, deputy chief executive of th...

HEALTH

Doing more with less

By Dr Andrew Howe | 06 November 2013

Dr Andrew Howe explains how Harrow LBC used its new-found public health responsibilities as an op...