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NextGov: Resolving the housing crisis

28/06/2024

The Home Builders Federation’s (HBF) policy and external affairs manager, Laura Markus, discusses what the next government should do to tackle the housing crisis.

NextGov: Ending the need for food banks

27/06/2024

Trussell Trust policy manager Beatrice Orchard and research officer Adrianne Clarke set out what the next government can do to end the need for food banks.

NextGov: What rural councils want from the next government

26/06/2024

The chief executive of the Rural Services Network (RSN), Kerry Booth, sets out rural councils' key asks of the next government.

NextGov: Devolutionary road

24/06/2024

Jonathan Werran, the chief executive of think-tank Localis, discusses what the next government should do to extend devolution.

NextGov: Saving the local-national climate covenant

20/06/2024

Christopher Hammond, chief executive of UK100, discusses how the next government should help local authorities along the road to net zero.

NextGov: What the next government should do for public EV charging

20/06/2024

Asif Ghafoor, CEO of Be.EV, looks at what the next government should do to boost the roll-out of EV charge points.

NextGov: Planning under the next government

19/06/2024

Mike Kiely, chair of the Planning Officers Society, calls on the next government to build a more efficient and effective planning system.

NextGov: Scrapping the two-child benefit cap

17/06/2024

Rachel Walters, ECPC, and Amanda Bailey, NECPC, argue the next government should scrap the two-child limit on benefit payments.

UNISON: To whoever forms the next government…

14/06/2024

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, tells LocalGov.co.uk what the sector’s biggest union hopes to see from the next government.

NextGov: Boosting social mobility

13/06/2024

Carl Cullinane, director of Research and Policy at the Sutton Trust, looks at what the next government should do to deliver greater social mobility.

NextGov: Revitalising local democracy

10/06/2024

Dr Jess Garland, director of Research and Policy for the Electoral Reform Society, looks at what the next government should do to revitalise local democracy.

NextGov: What the next government should do for children’s services

05/06/2024

Andy Smith, president of the ADCS, looks at what the priorities for the next government should be when it comes to children’s services.

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Taking the lead

Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa, says its time for local government to take the lead in driving efficiencies and change.
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Catastrophic system failure

Mo Baines, chief executive of APSE, calls for an end to the hollowing out of public service capacity in light of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
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