Shadow local government minister Bob Neill said it was a ?timely document that flags up a lot of things that a Conservative government needs to address? but stopped short of a making concrete any pledges.
Councils need to simplify and standardise their underlying processes before they are consolidated into a single shared service, according to a new report
Ipsos MORI’s latest report, entitled Mind the Gap: Frontiers of Performance V, has taken a whole range of different factors that impact on what people think about councils and looked at the Place Surveys that all English Councils undertook in 2008.
Marginalised for years by home ownership and social landlords, co-op housing’s advocates believe its time has come as the main political parties see its potential to promote community responsibility
Cllr David Parsons, the Leader of Leicestershire County Council, explains how residents were involved in helping to make some tough choices on their budget
Some of the highest profile Conservative council leaders, including Hammersmith & Fulham LBCs Stephen Greenhalgh, Westminster City Councils Colin Barrow and Leicestershire CCs David Parsons have been involved in drawing up what they bill as a Magna Carta for localism
Kent CC’s leader is to launch a radical drive to convince the Conservative leadership to devolve power to sub-regions based on traditional county boundaries
The Greater London Authority has committed itself to publishing all centrally held data in its raw format as part of a drive to change the nature of the interaction between citizens and the state.
My discussion document is about radical devolution to local communities and local government at all levels. It shows how real devolution and empowerment can deliver substantial savings and drive up standards of services.
A council that made headlines over its plan to provide a no-frills ?easyJet? service with top-up charges has been forced to abandon some of its proposals because of legal problems