Responding to the publication today of Lord Heseltines report No Stone Unturned, Alex Thomson, Chief Executive of Localis, the local government think-tank said rocket boosters were needed for the localism agenda…
Councils need to become drivers of growth, but leaders shouldn’t wait to be told to make their move said Lord Howard, speaking at the Localis-sponsored Sandy Bruce-Lockhart lecture.
Healthcare cash aimed at easing the integration of social care and health services is being used to plug huge holes in social service budgets instead, the Department of Health has admitted.
Localis’ Catalyst Councils report was today referenced in the Financial Times, as part of an article arguing that local government is being innovative in response to the spending challenge.
Councils could be forced to slash childrens centre funding as they struggle to cope with a predicted 27% cut in early intervention budgets, finance directors have warned.
So, the conference season is over and, having been at all three conferences, running more than a dozen fringe events, I have been given a fascinating insight into politics at both the very top and the grass roots.
Local rate retention has not gifted authorities the financial independence they crave, but it is a first step towards autonomy
Residential property owners including social landlords are to be offered 125 million of ‘cashback’ payments as an incentive to take up the government’s green deal scheme.
A new report has suggested that UK charities are being hampered by a number of factors in their effort to engage with the public sector and help provide services to those in need of them.
The chairman of an influential Commons committee has slammed government proposals to remove planning powers from struggling councils and hand them to Whitehall, without the right of appeal.