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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Keeping local government relevant and meaningful
By Kathy O’Leary | 07 May 2024
Following the pandemic and the cost of living crisis, we need to recognise that social capital ma...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: Killian lobbied to halt work with watchdog
By Dan Peters | 07 May 2024
Sector figures have been lobbied to withdraw engagement and co-operation with the local governmen...
SOLACE
Stopping the downward spiral
By Mike Bennett | 30 April 2024
Mike Bennett reviews a new book that captures the degradation of ethics in public life and sets ...
PAY
TPA analysis of senior local government pay is relentlessly unsophisticated
By Graeme McDonald | 22 April 2024
Graeme McDonald says: 'Perhaps the diminishing number of national news outlets covering the TPA’s...
WHITEHALL
Councils hit with new productivity demands
By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024
Ministers have demanded councils improve their productivity in the same week as the Government qu...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA looks to do more to help officers
By Dan Peters | 03 April 2024
The Local Government Association (LGA) is looking to do more to help officers fulfil their roles ...
WHITEHALL
Oflog co-design promises have been broken, say councils
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024
Ministerial promises to ‘co-design’ the Office for Local Government (Oflog) with the sector have ...
SOLACE
Elections show the organisation at its 'one council' best
By Kathy O’Leary | 26 March 2024
Kathy O' Leary says: 'As both pollsters and returning officers would agree, success in elections ...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Future Forum: Councils hit by absence of employee value propositions
21 March 2024
The ability of councils to attract, keep and develop future talent is being hit by the absence of...
SOLACE
Solace at 50
By Heather Jameson | 20 March 2024
As Solace hits its 50th anniversary – alongside the anniversary of the 1974 local government reor...
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