HEALTH

All change: children's services in Birmingham

27 September 2011

Improvements to children’s services rely on managers and staff who know what is happening on the ...

WHITEHALL

Who monitors education now?

By Chris Waterman | 27 September 2011

The Government’s wholesale abolition of independent educational organisations has left the Depart...

ENVIRONMENT

Bringing choice to kerbside recycling

By Simon Parker | 27 September 2011

The future looks bright for environmental services, but only if councils take a more radical appr...

Transparency in procurement

20 September 2011

It is vital that local authorities are consistent and transparent in the procurement process, say...

ENVIRONMENT

HS2 and the planning process

By Dermott Calpin | 20 September 2011

MPs' verdict on HS2 is likely to prove a key test for the Government’s streamlining of the planni...

WHITEHALL

Some unanswered questions

By John Stewart | 20 September 2011

George Jones and John Stewart suggest there will be major conflicts unless the Government clearly...

WHITEHALL

Shaking up parliament's constituencies

20 September 2011

Plans to redraw parliamentary constituencies have taken an unmistakeably centralist approach, say...

FINANCE

The Local Government Challenge

20 September 2011

Winning the Local Government Challenge scholarship is helping Paul Knight learn more about local ...

ENVIRONMENT

Solar power for social housing

By Stephen Cirell | 20 September 2011

Councils can still benefit from solar power, but they need to take speedy action on large scale s...

ENVIRONMENT

Are changes to the CRC lawful?

By Stephen Cirell | 20 September 2011

The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) was introduced into the UK in 2010, but changes announced i...