Bid to win

By Garry Payne | 06 May 2014

Wyre Council has made sourcing external support priority, a strategy that is paying dividends, ex...

Introducing cost-benefit analysis

By Julian Cox | 30 April 2014

Demand for public services far exceeds funding. Adopting a cost-benefit analysis can both clarify...

In praise of clear communications

By Cormac Smith | 29 April 2014

Cormac Smith describes how public relations can be a universal language and one that can help to ...

Outer City Estates: new towns for the 21st century?

By Martin Yarnit | 24 April 2014

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s prospectus for a new wave of strategically sited Garden Cities...

Nothing to prove

By Kersten England | 24 April 2014

Combined authorities shouldn’t have to play the ‘earned autonomy’ game and await Whitehall’s judg...

Councils fire up their synapses

By Jonathan Carr-West | 23 April 2014

Public services must act as conduit across which social action can travel, writes Dr Jonathan Car...

FINANCE

Aiming for the endgame

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2014

The final Queen’s Speech of the current five-year fixed-term Parliament will be delivered on 3 Ju...

FINANCE

Playing the co-operation game

By Jon Ainger | 15 April 2014

Jon Ainger argues that ‘game theory’ evidence of recent local government leadership trends and tr...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Have a go, heroes

By Jackie Sadek | 15 April 2014

Jackie Sadek, newly-appointed policy adviser to cities minister Greg Clark, outlines the next ste...

FINANCE

Campaign for Fiscal Freedom

By MJ reporter | 11 April 2014

The MJ has launched a campaign, calling on the Government to give councils more financial freedoms.