Lgiu

By Jonathan Carr-West | 09 May 2022

Dr Jonathan Carr-West says local elections represent a chance for people to express their views a...

WHITEHALL

No major gains expected as local elections loom

By Heather Jameson | 27 April 2022

Labour and the Conservatives are unlikely to make any huge wins at next week’s local elections, i...

EXCLUSIVE: Barriers hold back councils from playing a strategic health leadership role

26 April 2022

A host of barriers are hampering local government's ability to play a strategic leadership and co...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

The great rebuild

By Jonathan Carr-West | 20 April 2022

With local elections just around the corner, Jonathan Carr-West fears we are in a dangerous momen...

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE

Government is failing to set out councils' role in delivering net zero, say MPs

By Ann McGauran | 02 March 2022

MPs have hit out at the Government’s ‘apparent lack of urgency’ in clarifying how it will work wi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A whole lot of papers

By Jonathan Carr-West | 13 December 2021

December has been a tale of two White Papers. The one that is and the one that is yet to be, writ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Halting a rise in hatred

By What can be done to deter abuse and harassment of local politicians and sanction those responsible? Ann McGauran reports | 01 December 2021

What can be done to deter incidents of abuse and harassment of local politicians, and to sanction...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Making the right connections

By Jonathan Carr-West | 09 November 2021

COP26 has raised awareness of the actions climate change requires. Dr Jonathan Carr-West argues ...

WHITEHALL

Gove in major review of new department

By Dan Peters | 25 October 2021

A wide-scale review of every single programme is underway at the new Department for Levelling Up,...

DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

Sector 'right to be concerned' about levelling up

By Martin Ford | 21 October 2021

Local government should be wary of the contents of the levelling up White Paper, a think-tank has...

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