Localis’ Alex Thomson comments on how the public sector could learn a thing or two from Dodgeball.
We issue a national call for evidence to gather opinions on the current state of relations between utility providers and developers, with the objective of promoting growth.
Council chiefs have this week demanded changes to the business rates retention scheme giving local authorities all the proceeds of economic growth and protection from appeals.
The government has reached City Deal agreements with five city regions, taking the total number of pacts signed in the second phase of the programme to eight.
Care minister Norman Lamb has said he hopes personal health budgets for people who use mental health services to be rolled out across the country.
Politicians bemoan voter apathy, but many of us feel that the political process is both rotten and unrepresentative
I often hear people, myself included, casually tossing out the phrase ‘health and social care integration’ in a tone that implies “why don’t they get on and do it already”.
While local government has handled substantial budget reductions perhaps better than expected so far, the negative financial outlook will remain beyond the lifetime of the current Parliament with the LGA predicting that councils will face a £16.5 bn funding gap by the end of the decade.
London Councils has backed a communities and local government committee report that called on the Government to ‘grab the lifeline’ offered by community budgets.
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