Opinion - Page 186

By Neil Lupin | 19 January 2022

Neil Lupin takes a look at what this year brings for the sector, and assesses the immediate futur...

ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDRENS SERVICES

Our golden chance to improve the lives of children

By Charlotte Ramsden | 19 January 2022

The levelling up agenda provides us with the chance to tackle the rising number of children livin...

WHITEHALL

Will Gove strengthen the DLUHC's role in Whitehall?

By Robert Pollock | 19 January 2022

Levelling up runs through each department’s outcome delivery plans. If Michael Gove is successful...

REORGANISATION

Let's hear it for our unsung heroes

By Rachael Mills | 19 January 2022

The people working within local government are very special indeed, according to Rachael Mills. S...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Relax planning rules to stimulate growth

By Jason Longhurst | 18 January 2022

Creating Levelling Up Investment Areas would empower Government and councils to transform places ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Democracy needs to have value

By Paul Shevlin | 18 January 2022

Many of those who are elected to public office seem to be increasingly remote from the people the...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

A late-notice, short-term and partial settlement poses problems

By Abdool Kara | 18 January 2022

There may be a clue about why the sector only has a one-year settlement in the lack of announceme...

PAY

Dromey's legacy in council history

By Michael Burton | 18 January 2022

The recent untimely death of Jack Dromey reminds Michael Burton of the former union leader’s key ...

FINANCE

Local government's finance community are left scratching their heads

By Tony Kirkham | 18 January 2022

Tony Kirkham hopes the Government looks at alternative ways of managing future transitions and fi...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Erosion of honesty is a destroyer of democracy

By Heather Jameson | 18 January 2022

Heather Jameson says Sheffield City Council was repeatedly asked about the chief executive’s atte...

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