Council leaders have published their own plans for a rebalancing of democracy in favour of voters. The Local Government Association published its manifesto for a new politics as hundreds of ...

Children and young people who misuse alcohol are left without the appropriate help at times because of inconsistencies in the services designed to help them, according to a report today. The report ...

In “It’s ours: why we, not government, must own our data”, Liam Maxwell says improving Government use of IT is not just a question of effective project management but also of changing the assumptions ...

The draft Measure would place a duty on all Welsh local councils to introduce a code of conduct for behaviour on buses after consultation with schools, further education institutions, parents and ...

The Cabinet Office has signed up 100,000 Big Society ‘Digital Champions’ to help millions of adults get online by the time the Olympics comes to Britain. The champions are employees and users of ...

The latest cuts in local government budgets announced by the Chancellor have intensified the search for innovative ways to deal with the new situation. One way to address this is to spin-out a ...

Local Government Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles presents the local government angle on the Prime Minister’s vision in the CLG Structural Reform Plan. It marks ‘a radical shift of power from ...

Features: June 27th, 2008 By Graham Willett. Children using technology are exposed to risks in schools, children’s homes, libraries, and youth clubs. It’s the job of councils across the UK to have a ...

Universal Credit is currently being operated in 10 Pathfinder areas. By the end of year it will be rolled out further to cover more of the north-west and expansion will continue for the following two ...

An alternative projection assumes a ‘bad recession’, under which earnings fall in real terms by 1 per cent to 2010 and the fall in employment is twice as high as in the central projection. The central ...

Total place, which looks at how a whole area approach to public services can lead to better quality at less cost, has brought a paradigm shift in thinking about how taxpayers money can best be spent.

The New Local Government Network has identified areas that will be high or low beneficiaries from the Government’s Big Society agenda. The report, ‘Realising Community Wealth’ describes the absence of ...