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DEVOLUTION
There's no time to lose
By Stephen Baker | 22 September 2025
As councils in the Devolution Priority Programme submit their full reorganisation proposals, Step...
LEADERSHIP
Taking a cue from the chief
By Blair McPherson | 22 September 2025
Organisations are like people and the person they are most like is the chief executive, says Blai...
SAFEGUARDING
Red flags and boiling frogs: a damning picture that the National Youth Strategy must fix
By Leigh Middleton | 22 September 2025
With the Government's National Youth Strategy due to be published, Leigh Middleton warns that wit...
FINANCE
Councils can't wait for reform
By Joanne Pitt | 22 September 2025
Drawing on assurance work by CIPFA, Joanne Pitt sets out the challenges driving the growing relia...
TRANSFORMATION
The relationship between the centre and local councils has to be earned.
By Mo Baines | 19 September 2025
A panel session at APSE's recent annual conference highlighted that the sector faces constraints...
REORGANISATION
The four-unitary model in Hants and the Isle of Wight creates a stable platform
By Gill Kneller | 19 September 2025
A four-unitary model in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight balances ambition with realism, innovatio...
WORKFORCE
Safety shouldn't be too much for women to ask for
By Heather Jameson | 18 September 2025
Councils cannot ignore what persists within their own workplace cultures, writes Heather Jameson.
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
How community power can renew the social contract in local government
By Jessica Studdert | 18 September 2025
Cynicism threatens democracy, but local government can lead renewal, says Jessica Studdert.
HEALTH
The neighbourhood challenge
By Matthew Taylor | 17 September 2025
Matthew Taylor looks at the critical factors dictating the success or failure of neighbourhood he...
RECRUITMENT
From compliance to compassion
By Philip Emms | 17 September 2025
Philip Emms says the sector needs to seize the moment the current regulatory spotlight is providi...
- Chiefs take charge
- Unai Emery's brilliance provides a great blueprint for local government finance leaders
- Government's fiscal devolution roadmap sparks fears over Treasury control
- Progress on neighbourhood health, but much more to do
- What England can learn from Japan's approach to local government finance
- Chiefs take charge
- Unai Emery's brilliance provides a great blueprint for local government finance leaders
- Government's fiscal devolution roadmap sparks fears over Treasury control
- Progress on neighbourhood health, but much more to do
- What England can learn from Japan's approach to local government finance
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