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WHITEHALL
Labour: £500m academies black hole
By William Eichler | 18 March 2016
The chancellor’s plan to transform every school into an academy faces a £560m funding shortage, a...
WHITEHALL
More than a marriage of convenience
17 March 2016
To adapt a phrase, the NHS is from Mars, local government is from Venus. But deputy director of t...
WHITEHALL
Engagement and accountability key
By Mark Sandford | 17 March 2016
Senior research analyst at the House of Commons Library, Mark Sandford, looks at the unexpected i...
FINANCE
Council leaders must seek a model that works
By Paul Watson | 16 March 2016
Cllr Paul Watson, chair of the Key Cities group, says council leaders should look carefully at th...
HEALTH
'Plan ahead for integrated place-based care'
By Jamie Hailstone | 15 March 2016
A local government think-tank has called on councils and health trusts to plan ahead to help deve...
HEALTH
Bed-blockers are up by one-third
By Jamie Hailstone | 15 March 2016
The number of hospital bed days lost because social care services are not available has risen by ...
DCLG
Silver bullet for digital strategies
By Dean Wanless | 15 March 2016
Establishing a single standard for data management has numerous benefits. Dean Wanless sets out t...
WHITEHALL
Key Cities head praises Oxford restructure plan
By Dan Peters | 15 March 2016
The chair of the Key Cities group has urged councils to look at the example of Oxfordshire distri...
HEALTH
Future of devolution difficult to predict
By Andrew Walker | 15 March 2016
Andrew Walker, policy researcher for the Local Government Information Unit think-tank, looks at t...
FINANCE
Digital technologies could help councils save £14.7bn a year
By Laura Sharman | 15 March 2016
Councils could save £14.7bn a year if they made use of new digital technologies such as apps and ...
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