Solace

By Dan Peters | 07 May 2024

Sector figures have been lobbied to withdraw engagement and co-operation with the local governmen...

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...

FINANCE

Good councils make effective use of consultants

By Graeme McDonald | 13 March 2024

'While it’s easy to dismiss reports criticising spend on consultants it is worth reflecting on wh...

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