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SPENDING REVIEW
Lighting up imagination
By Sarah Longlands | 11 June 2025
The Spending Review should be a springboard for innovation in public service, writes Sarah Longla...
DIGITAL
Council culture: Why digital needs to be at the core
By Cate McLaurin | 09 June 2025
Digital can’t be the responsibility of just one team, and instead of being treated as a technical...
COMMUNICATIONS
Do you need a comms plan, or a plan for your comms team?
By Louise Neilan | 09 June 2025
Encouraging your communications teams to sign up for LGComms Academy 2025 in Bristol will show th...
SEND
Reform of SEND cannot come quickly enough
By Simon Edwards | 05 June 2025
With deficits increasing and liabilities for SEND accruing interest on the existing debt, this is...
IMMIGRATION
The impacts and risks of immigration and skills policies
By Oliver Lodge | 05 June 2025
Closer collaboration across Government departments and local authorities is vital to securing the...
SEND
A story of smarter SEND funding
By Natalie Kenneison | 05 June 2025
Natalie Kenneison says that despite soaring SEND deficits, a quieter story of progress is unfoldi...
PARISH COUNCILS
The cap doesn't fit
By Justin Griggs | 05 June 2025
Capping some or all parish and town councils would seriously threaten their effectiveness and und...
FINANCE
Shovel-ready Spending Review
By Heather Jameson | 05 June 2025
The local government world is divided into two types of people: those who are resigned to their f...
LG CHALLENGE
Making Stroud future fit
By Grace Perks | 04 June 2025
Grace Perks reports from the latest leg of the LG Challenge, where the teams went head-to-head to...
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Frame the problem to design the solution
By Barry Quirk CBE | 03 June 2025
Barry Quirk applauds the Government’s focus on radical innovation, but says defining the issue to...
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