New SIGOMA chair: ‘We need certainty’ on council funding
Mayor Chris Cooke, new chair of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities (SIGOMA), talks to LocalGov about collaborative governance and funding.
Why councils should not wait for Westminster to fix social care
22/07/2026 More funding from a new PM won't fix adult social care. Councils need to rethink how they commission care, says Alice Semark, Senior Researcher, Re:State. |
Andy Burnham, make devolution mean devolution!
20/07/2026 As Andy Burnham enters No. 10, Colin Copus argues he should pause local government reorganisation and ask whether Whitehall's shake-up is devolution at all. |
Getting LGR Ready: Fleet lessons from Westmorland and Furness
14/07/2026 Austin Shields, Senior Manager – Fleet Services at Westmorland and Furness Council, shares what he learnt from local government reorganisation in his area. |
The National Year of Reading: Creating New Pathways into Reading
10/07/2026 Rebecca Gediking, Library Services Director for GLL, explains how partnerships between libraries and leisure are creating new pathways into reading. |
Stronger local government starts with fair pay
09/07/2026 UNISON's head of local government on why devolution means nothing without fair pay for council and school staff |
Standards Without Teeth: Why local government's code of conduct is failing
06/07/2026 As the LGA conference kicks off, Kath O'Dwyer, Solace, explains why the standards regime is failing and what a fit-for-purpose system should look like. |
Local government can't deliver without investing in skills
06/07/2026 Local authorities can't deliver the ambitious programmes communities need without properly valuing the people who run them, writes Tessa Neal of APM. |
Devolution and putting place first
29/06/2026 The real lesson of Andy Burnham's Makerfield success, argues Dr Jonathan Carr-West, is that place – not personality – is the key to Britain's future. |
Turning the page on prison libraries
25/06/2026 Emma-Louise McLellan looks at the important – and often life-changing – work GLL has helped facilitiate within prison libraries. |
Fiscal Devolution – has stuff just got real?
25/06/2026 As Andy Burnham prepares to enter Downing Street, Localis' Jonathan Werran asks whether his premiership will unlock tax-raising powers for local government. |
Half a century in the chamber
24/06/2026 Cllr Dr James Walsh was elected to Arun District Council in 1975. Here he tells LocalGov what he's learned about trust, transformation and keeping it local. |
Local Government Reorganisation: What councils must get right
19/06/2026 Elliott Fletcher of Managementors warns that LGR will only deliver its promised savings if councils tackle operational change head-on. |
Business Rates: Finding cost savings through the haze
09/06/2026 Chris Grose of Hartnell Taylor Cook explains how public sector bodies can review their business rates liabilities and find savings in challenging times. |
The little button quietly saving UK councils from a thousand complaint emails
28/05/2026 Councils spend thousands handling complaints, calls and enquiries generated by underperforming web pages. The fix costs a fraction of that. |
The Place Director of the Future
26/05/2026 Katie Stewart, the new president of ADEPT and Executive Director Environment at the City of London Corporation, on the evolving demands of place leadership. |
The Fuel Crisis: Why it’s time to accelerate electrification
21/05/2026 Rising fuel prices and grid challenges are piling pressure on council fleet managers — but the case for accelerating electrification has never been stronger. |
Who do you complain to? The new rules on social housing
20/05/2026 The Renters' Rights Act has extended the LGSCO's jurisdiction to cover non-tenant social housing complaints. The Ombudsman explains what councils need to know. |
New Councils, Old Lessons: What the class of 2026 needs to know
15/05/2026 Colin Copus of De Montfort University reflects on the challenges ahead for new members, officers and the councils they must now run together. |
After the Votes: Why HR and OD are crucial to delivering new political mandates
15/05/2026 PPMA President Sandra Farquharson argues that HR and OD professionals have a pivotal role to play in turning new administrations' promises into outcomes. |
Kent CC streamlines asset management with Brightly Software’s Confirm system
14/05/2026 Kent CC carried out work that automated its asset management processes, resulting in significant improvements to operational efficiency and data accuracy. |
