WHITEHALL

Slow but steady wins the day

By Bob Neill | 18 November 2014

Incremental change and ‘subsidiarity’ should be the way forward for English devolution, argues Bo...

FINANCE

Public service mutuals: a work in progress

By Kristian Scholfield | 14 November 2014

Francis Maude's dream of one million public sector staff working in John Lewis-style employee-led...

WHITEHALL

Devolve to re-engage voters, MPs urge

By Jonathan Werran | 14 November 2014

Political parties should pledge to end overcentralisation and extend devolution to fight voter ap...

TRANSFORMATION

Vale of Glamorgan seeks Bridgend merger

By Jonathan Werran | 13 November 2014

The Vale of Glamorgan Council is advocating a merger with Bridgend ahead of a 28 November deadlin...

HEALTH

Lust for life

By Alexander Stevenson | 12 November 2014

Consequences of primal human appetites and behaviours drain public service budgets of billions ea...

FINANCE

Austerity post-2016 is set to be rebadged as 'prudence'

By Michael Burton | 12 November 2014

But keeping the electorate in ignorant bliss about the state of the public finances is hardly goi...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Once you drop, you can't stop

12 November 2014

There can’t be many local authorities who want to be on the front page of the Daily Mail, but Bri...

FINANCE

Barnett's impact to shrink as Scotland gains taxation powers

By Dan Peters | 11 November 2014

The importance of the Barnett formula will be ‘proportionately diminished’ when a greater degree ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Metro-centralism peril

By Jonathan Carr-West | 11 November 2014

There’s a risk of replacing excessive centralism with excessive metro-centralism if the devolouti...

FINANCE

Where Lyons purred, councils can roar

By John Healey | 11 November 2014

John Healey looks at the key points of the Lyons review and highlights the challenges local autho...

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