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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
An alternative commissioning model
By Andrew Rome | 31 January 2018
High cost residential care for children is a major source of financial difficulties for local aut...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Rotherham: a place that needed good news
By Heather Jameson | 29 January 2018
Rotherham MBC has finally achieved a positive Ofsted rating. The council is now trying to turn ar...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Norfolk CC is back on the march
By Sam Clayden | 24 January 2018
After five years as an ‘inadequate’ authority, Norfolk CC’s children’s services have seen a turna...
EUROPEAN UNION
Storm clouds gather over the sector
By Michael Burton | 16 January 2018
A wave of reports last month on the impact of Brexit on local government signals its rise on the ...
HEALTH
The fall of the tri-borough
By Dan Peters | 16 January 2018
Dan Peters looks back at the events leading to the collapse of the tri-borough and asks how the t...
FINANCE
'The finance system is broken beyond the next few years'
By Heather Jameson | 11 January 2018
With the provisional local government finance settlement published so late in the day before Chri...
FINANCE
A leap into the unknown
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017
Sam Clayden guides us through the biggest events of a tumultuous year.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A response to the Industrial Strategy white paper
By Sam Clayden | 05 December 2017
Shaping the Industrial Strategy is among the most pressing challenges facing local authority lead...
FINANCE
Budget that gives no one any certainty
By Dan Corry | 29 November 2017
We don’t have a stable situation and things will have to change, writes Dan Corry, as he dissect...
FINANCE
Budget forecasting for public finances is hit and miss
By Michael Burton | 29 November 2017
One conclusion from covering many Budgets is that forecasting is more an art than a science, writ...
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