Local authorities are improving the quality of assessments for vulnerable children, but key probl...
Campaigners and council leaders have warned of the strain the social care system is under in the ...
A ‘growing number’ of councils want to join two types of combined authority, The MJ has learned.
Two areas are still receiving ‘intensive support’ amid concerns that their Better Care Fund (BCF)...
The tectonic plates of responsibility for delivering public services are shifting, writes George ...
As calls come for a radical re-think of the government’s current complaints system, Mark Whitehea...
Three years since the Health and Social Care Act was passed, chairman of the Local Government Ass...
Has the new devolution agenda of combined authorities created a Wild West in which risk managemen...
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) will be asked to find up to a further 4...
New joint targeted inspections for local agencies that ‘fail to work together effectively’ have b...
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