04/07/2018

Business rates should be scrapped and local authorities should be handed a swathe of new powers to revitalise struggling town centres, a major new review has urged.

31/05/2018

In little over a month, the NHS will turn 70. Not long after that, the Government is expected to publish a green paper on health and social care.

26/02/2018

Academics have demanded a raft of tools to enable local government to hold to account the ‘chaotic network’ of agencies involved in providing public services.

09/02/2018

Amid a crisis in children's services, Sam Clayden looks at the range of tools currently on trial for improving service delivery.

06/02/2018

Shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne has demanded the resignation of his counterpart Sajid Javid after the minister admitted he knew the data behind the provisional finance settlement was wrong.

24/01/2018

A pair of Commons select committees has joined forces to launch an inquiry on the long-term funding and provision of adult social care.

19/01/2018

Norfolk County Council’s beleaguered children’s services no longer require intervention after Ofsted found the council has now improved.

07/12/2017

Nearly 100 council leaders have written to the chancellor demanding extra funding for workers and an end to the public sector pay cap.

22/11/2017

The chancellor has pledged to ‘back’ the Northern Powerhouse, the Midlands Engine and elected mayors as he announced a pack of new devolution deals.

22/11/2017

London local government will be able to keep all its business rates growth as part of a 100% retention pilot.

15/11/2017

National and local leaders have signed a ‘landmark’ devolution deal for health and social care in London.

26/10/2017

Four months after the Grenfell fire tragedy, many survivors remain without a permanent home and the council’s relationship with residents remains severed. Sam Clayden quizzes Kensington & Chelsea RLBC leader Elizabeth Campbell on the borough’s progress.

11/10/2017

A new survey has revealed that 16 councils were fined for delayed transfers of care in 2016/17, a move branded as ‘frankly bizarre’ by the country’s most senior care director.

13/09/2017

Should councils ignore government pressure to trim down their cash reserves? Sam Clayden investigates.

17/08/2017

Sam Clayden explores some of the exciting new job roles being formed in local government.

03/08/2017

Who is behind the new Grenfell Taskforce, and what has it been set up to achieve? Sam Clayden reports.

27/07/2017

Senior sector figures this week called for clarity amid escalating concerns Whitehall is too stretched to tackle critical financial sustainability issues.

25/07/2017

Business secretary Greg Clark has suggested the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is on the brink of striking a second devolution deal with Whitehall.

08/06/2017

The next government needs to provide a ‘strategic direction’ for councils currently operating in a ‘very messy and muddled policy environment,’ a think-tank boss has urged.

12/05/2017

A string of new transport and infrastructure proposals have been unveiled by the new mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in his 100-day manifesto.