The LGA has called for the government to commit to a concrete timescale for reforming and funding social care following the publication of the long-awaited social care white paper.
Localis’ Alex Thomson argues for a shift of funding from acute to preventative care, as a recent LGA report exposes a 16.5bn shortfall in local authority funding by 2020.
Report shows number of public sector mutuals has risen from nine to more than 50, but falls well short of government targets
Chief executives and senior directors will sit on NHS panels advising on whether commissioning groups (CCGs) should be authorised.
Cllr Peter John takes a whistle stop tour of regeneration in Southwark. Grow your own way, a new report from think-tank Localis looks at local approaches to regeneration and includes a case study on Southwark.
Election officers should remain local employees in a decentralised system, council chief executives have said
The University of Northampton launched a new national support service for the British social enterprise sector this week. Inspire2Enterprise service has been rolled out across the country after successfully being piloted in nine counties for the past six months.
Alex Thomson writes about the MJ’s Future Forum, the scale of the challenge faced by the sector over coming years and the quality of public sector leadership.
The Department for Education has published a slimmed-down set of guidance on child protection, which it says will replace central targets with greater local freedom.
Creating a combined authority covering the whole economic area of Greater Manchester will help the city to recover faster from recession. Grow your own way, a new report from think-tank Localis looks at local approaches to regeneration and includes a case study on Greater Manchester.