Innovation

Latest Innovation

Innovation: the key

By Abdool Kara | 05 February 2025

Local government is feeling the squeeze. To transform services, it must unlock innovation, writes Abdool Kara

INTERVENTION

Liverpool strides to walk alone

By Heather Jameson | 18 December 2024

The leader and chief executive of Liverpool City Council talk to Heather Jameson about the author...

REGENERATION

Regeneration rooted in heart and heritage

By Donna Nolan | 18 December 2024

Donna Nolan reveals how Watford is leading the way in sustainable local regeneration with its lan...

PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM

Test and learn sites could catalyse deeper place-based reform

By Jessica Studdert | 17 December 2024

The four new test and learn sites in Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester and Essex make it clear the...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Growing challenges

By Greg Clark | 09 October 2024

Greg Clark sets out the obstacles the Government’s forthcoming Industrial Strategy must address t...

FINANCE

To succeed, a missions approach need to be a collective endeavour

By Jon Rowney | 09 August 2024

Missions should be ambitious enough to require organisations to innovate to achieve long-term goa...

WHITEHALL

Helping folk stay afloat

By Chris Naylor | 25 June 2024

Chris Naylor says his intuitively simple vision is for a neighbourhood-based preventative state –...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Chief executives' development programme launched

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2024

A first-of-its-kind development programme designed to meet the needs and future challenges of chi...

DIGITAL

The place of possibilities

By Sarah Norman | 11 June 2024

As the sector’s brightest and best gear up for The MJ Awards 2024, Sarah Norman reflects on Barns...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Mission: Possible

By Andrew Greenway | 05 June 2024

Work is underway to develop a practical solution, in collaboration with local authorities, for de...

INNOVATION

Reform required to unleash preventative approach, says report

By Martin Ford | 21 May 2024

Central government reforms are needed to help innovation in preventative services at a local leve...

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