Productivity

04 June 2024

Ministers have demanded councils improve their productivity but Diary wonders whether the Departm...

WHITEHALL

Hoare: We still want productivity plans

By Dan Peters | 30 May 2024

Local government minister Simon Hoare has insisted he still wants councils to draw up unpopular p...

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...

COUNCILLORS

Give us space

20 May 2024

If there is to be a new Total Place, or interest in using combined authorities as mechanisms of c...

WHITEHALL

Time for a cross-government framework for place-based collaboration

By Jessica Studdert | 13 May 2024

Revisiting Total Place principles would offer a strong foundation for a wider shift across the pu...

Wombledon's wry message

30 April 2024

With Westminster awash with allegations of sleaze and bullying, Parliament desperately needs peop...

HUMAN RESOURCES

How we can build an AI foundation

30 April 2024

James Johns analyses the perceived lack of trust in AI technology and says it’s time to take the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Taking the PPMA from strength to strength

26 April 2024

New president Pam Parkes shares her vision for the PPMA, and sets out the seven areas she will fo...

FINANCE

Productivity matters

By Nicole Wood | 23 April 2024

Nicole Wood says the sector 'can and should bring our corporate, digital, people and commercial c...

AUDIT

Minister rules out Oflog role on audit

By Martin Ford | 23 April 2024

A minister has quashed suggestions oversight of audit should be handed to the Office for Local Go...

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