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PAY
Town hall rich list branded 'inane and distasteful'
By Heather Jameson | 15 April 2020
Attempts to criticise local government salaries have been branded as ‘both inane and distasteful'...
SOLACE
Getting through the greatest challenge of a generation
By Joanne Roney | 14 April 2020
Dealing with COVID-19 is ‘an incredibly tough challenge’ for council leadership, says Joanne Rone...
SOLACE
Our role will be refocused around resilience
By Graeme McDonald | 06 April 2020
Beyond the initial emergency response, we must ensure communities can emerge and re-establish the...
SOCIAL CARE
We will do everything we can to save lives
By Martin Swales | 26 March 2020
The national COVID-19 emergency is seeing the very best of our councils and our workforces and we...
SOLACE
The work of local government has become 'even more urgent'
By Ann McGauran | 26 March 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting ‘the very best of councils and our workforces’, accordin...
PAY
Former Solace chief takes crisis pay cut
By Heather Jameson | 25 March 2020
Former Solace president Jo Miller has taken a 10% pay cut as her council launched a range of meas...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Jenrick urges councils not to delay on coronavirus spending
By Dan Peters | 17 March 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick this week urged council leaders not to put off decision...
SOCIAL CARE
There is still plenty for this Government to 'get done'
By Martin Reeves | 16 March 2020
The Budget package does not give councils any certainty over funding for the short to medium term...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Be more than just good at your job
12 February 2020
Nicola McCoy Brown says that while she hadn’t reached her third decade of work ‘without knowing t...
FINANCE
Scottish councils' improvements 'stalling'
By Martin Ford | 31 January 2020
Spending on culture and leisure, economic development, and roads all fell by around a quarter las...
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