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After the Covid Inquiry: It's time for serious devolution
COVID INQUIRY

After the Covid Inquiry: It's time for serious devolution

By Vijay K Luthra | 26 November 2025

Devolution is a resilience issue after the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, say Patrick Diamond and Vijay K Luthra.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Navigating the Covid storm

By Barry Quirk | 04 November 2025

A book about how a London borough which found itself with the highest incidence of Covid-19 in th...

DIGITAL

The move to digital networks: preparing local authorities for a connected future

By Professor Sultan Mahmud | 29 October 2025

BT is working with local authorities across the UK to prepare for one of the most significant net...

FINANCE

Transformation is not a one-off project

By Iain Murray | 10 October 2025

Convenient temporary financial fixes may keep authorities afloat, but do not build the foundation...

COHESION

Time to ACT on terrorism

By Dr Amy Batley | 01 October 2025

A new counter-terrorism system – ACT for local authorities – puts the emphasis on five areas of...

LEADERSHIP

Taking a cue from the chief

By Blair McPherson | 22 September 2025

Organisations are like people and the person they are most like is the chief executive, says Blai...

FINANCE

Councils can't wait for reform

By Joanne Pitt | 22 September 2025

Drawing on assurance work by CIPFA, Joanne Pitt sets out the challenges driving the growing relia...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

All of England's LRFs to take part in pandemic exercise

By Martin Ford | 11 August 2025

All of England’s Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) will take part in a simulation exercise designed ...

COVID

Pandemic pandemonium

By Martin Ford | 31 July 2025

Exercises carried out to prepare for another potential pandemic have uncovered a litany of challe...

RESILIENCE

Building resilience from the ground up

By Helen Hinds | 21 July 2025

Skills and training are central to the delivery of the resilience agenda in local government, say...

RESILIENCE

EXCLUSIVE: Resilience warning over shelter and evacuation plans

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2025

Emergency shelter and evacuation plans may be insufficient in a worst-case scenario crisis, Local...

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