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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils tapping into the social research base

By Abdool Kara | 04 April 2013

Abdool Kara on how he's joined the SOLACE foundation as a trustee, supporting the workstream on e...

HEALTH

Bringing public health into local government

By Lawrence Conway | 04 April 2013

Bringing public health into local government is a step in the right direction. But it is only a s...

Real Recycling is Locally led

04 April 2013

Core Cities leaving LGA's orbit?

By Judith Barnes | 04 April 2013

Judith Barnes asks whether the Core Cities' desire to go it alone marks an economic parting of th...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councillors of the future, step forward

By John Tizard | 04 April 2013

Candidates with the right range of skills and experience are needed now more than ever, writes Jo...

WHITEHALL

Establishing a radical programme for change

By Paul Wheeler | 04 April 2013

Local government must stop being a mini-Whitehall and instead become a forward-looking, dynamic f...

FINANCE

Justify your spending

By Dan Corry | 04 April 2013

As the cuts continue, public services are under the microscope and have to explain to the public ...

Eyes wide shut

02 April 2013

FINANCE

A graph of hope for the embattled Treasury

By Michael Burton | 28 March 2013

The only way we can develop graphs of hope is if the Government abandons its silo approach to pro...

FINANCE

The issue of youth unemployment

By Paul O'Brien | 28 March 2013

We are in danger of consigning a generation of our young people to a long-term position on the 's...