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OFSTED
Ofsted to visit councils and children's social care providers
By Ann McGauran | 17 August 2020
Ofsted will resume its visits to local authorities and children's social care providers from Sept...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Restored visits by Ofsted are 'not about judging'
By Yvette Stanley | 17 August 2020
Rather than creating something new, Ofsted’s visits from September to schools and social care and...
FINANCE
Advisers offer neat solution to the rocky road ahead
By Heather Jameson | 11 August 2020
As a raft of councils could face difficulties from their commercial investment, or just failing f...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Birmingham improvement model could be used elsewhere
By Dan Peters | 11 August 2020
An improvement model that has helped turn around Birmingham City Council could be rolled out to o...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Learning the lessons from interventions
By Paul McDermott | 05 August 2020
Paul McDermott says the MHCLG’s analysis of corporate dysfunction is a must read, as it raises th...
WHITEHALL
CCN steps back from backing 'radical' shake-up
By Dan Peters | 04 August 2020
The County Councils’ Network (CCN) will hold back from calling for historic boundaries to determi...
WHITEHALL
'Small minority' of councils have still not had a corporate peer challenge, report finds
By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020
The Local Government Association (LGA) should consider what further action it could take to encou...
OMBUDSMAN
Ombudsman makes 12% more service improvement recommendations
By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020
Increasing systemic problems identified in residents’ complaints has led to the Local Government ...
WHITEHALL
Williams: I'll accept whatever it takes to get a county unitary
By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020
The leader of Hertfordshire CC has conceded he would accept a directly-elected mayor as the figur...
WHITEHALL
Committee bemoans 18-month delay to report response
By Dan Peters | 24 July 2020
The Committee on Standards in Public Life has scolded ministers for taking 18 months to respond t...
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Director of Customer, Digital and Corporate Strategy
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