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Future Forum Midlands: Councils urged to prepare for AI 'wave'
11/09/2025 Councils should be doing more to prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on their organisations, an expert has urged. |
Reform UK council takes flag decisions out of CEO’s hands
10/09/2025 Reform UK-led Warwickshire County Council has removed its chief executive’s flag-flying powers. |
Future Forum Midlands: Councils urged to be transformational under LGR
10/09/2025 Councils facing local government reorganisation (LGR) have been urged to focus on ‘the transformational' to avoid simply creating ‘bureaucratic' change. |
Future Forum: Unitary workers 'grieving' loss of districts
20/03/2025 North Northamptonshire Council chief executive Adele Wylie has urged those involved in reorganisation to act with ‘kindness' and avoid rancour. |
Future Forum Midlands: Clark points to reorganisation for sector
16/09/2024 Former communities secretary Greg Clark has said local government reorganisation should follow the creation of combined authorities. |
Future Forum North: Build individual relationships with mandarins
02/12/2022 Councils need to build individual relationships with Whitehall civil servants if they want to achieve positive outcomes, a former senior mandarin has advised. |
Austerity 'could end at the Spending Review'
11/04/2019 There is a ‘genuine chance’ austerity will end at the Spending Review, according to upbeat director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson. |
