Time is running out for budget saving options

By Michael Burton | 03 July 2014

Local authority chief executives and directors are increasingly concerned about how they will man...

Asset management – a strategic interpretation is necessary

By Steve Hanks | 26 June 2014

Steve Hanks outlines new approaches to ownership of physical assets could help local government p...

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Mayors are back on the menu

By Heather Jameson | 26 June 2014

If mayors are what it takes to get the Government to take cities seriously, to devolve powers and...

Towards a common goal

By Kevin Adderley | 25 June 2014

Wirral MBC is using Public Service Transformation Network support to tackle incoherent service pr...

A place of greater safety

By MJ Correspondent | 24 June 2014

Dan Peters speaks with Waltham Forest LBC chief executive Martin Esom on the greater role local a...

Is the Better Care Fund doomed?

By Jeremy Cooper | 24 June 2014

Jeremy Cooper examines the tensions between the NHS and local government bedevilling current atte...

Breaking the chains

By Alice Kavanagh | 24 June 2014

Alice Kavanagh outlines the key role local authorities have played in successfully tackling re-of...

A Lambeth co-production number

By Cllr Jack Hopkins | 24 June 2014

Cllr Jack Hopkins outlines the benefits of putting community engagement at the heart of council d...

Good, better, best!

By Jessica Crowe | 24 June 2014

Jessica Crowe highlights the success of Cheshire West and Chester, whose adoption services scoope...

Look who's talking

By MJ Correspondent | 18 June 2014

Dan Peters reports from this year’s Public Sector Communications Academy in Manchester, where exp...