Spending choices

By Dan Corry | 24 October 2013

The party conferences showed the parties gearing up for the next election.

Briefing: National Children and Adults Services Conference 2013

16 October 2013

This year’s National Children and Adults Services Conference in Harrogate made the headlines.

WHITEHALL

Briefing: Reshuffle October 2013

By Jonathan Werran | 16 October 2013

Jonathan Werran analyses what last week’s reshuffle means for the coalition, and how the oppositi...

HEALTH

Briefing: SOLACE 2013

By Michael Burton | 16 October 2013

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham last week told council chief executives that a national care...

MJ Awards: How Merton worked its magic

By Heather Jameson | 16 October 2013

When Merton LBC embarked on a ‘journey to excellence’ it redesigned its operating model to be bus...

MJ Awards: The message in Staffordshire is engagement

16 October 2013

When Staffordshire CC launched its Family First reorganisation it made sure the council's communi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

New ideas can solve an old problem

By Steven Howell | 16 October 2013

Steven Howell assesses a report examining how local authorities can realistically help promote ec...

FINANCE

Spending Showdown correspondence

16 October 2013

Full exchange of letters between DCLG permanent secretary Sir Bob Kerslake and LGA chief executiv...

HEALTH

Getting the best from public health

By Tom Scanlon | 15 October 2013

If public health integration is going to work anywhere, it should be in a unitary authority with ...

Video: Failure is not an option for Birmingham

By Heather Jameson | 09 October 2013

Birmingham City Council chief executive Stephen Hughes has a neat analogy to explain the forthcom...