Lgiu

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 John Cooper | 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...

DEVOLUTION

Let's ground levelling up

By Jonathan Carr-West | 05 October 2021

The LGiU has set out the six core principles that must inform the approach to levelling up from n...

Councils must be at heart of levelling up, report argues

By Laura Sharman | 04 October 2021

Councils must be at the heart of the Government’s levelling up agenda, a new report has argued to...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

It's not all about the money

By Jonathan Carr-West | 26 July 2021

It is dangerous if we let the discussion about the reform of social care become exclusively about...

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