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Separate voices are vital for services
LGiU policy manager John Fowler asks what’s the point of the ADCS?
Grassroots government in action
Susanna Rustin discusses parish councils and how effective grassroots government can really be
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Time for radical service redesign
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Partnerships key to 'place resilience'
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Devolution: An economic imperative
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It takes much more than a free T-shirt
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Stop the pilots and start the action
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Thatcher’s key lesson for leadership
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Transparency is many things at once
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Backing communities to drive reform
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Purple is the colour of empowerment
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Determine the goal and shape the plan
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Have your say on leadership skills
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Risk rising as Whitehall shunts costs
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This mindset is not fit for purpose
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Can you invest with a social purpose?
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We do our best work in partnership
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Do we need a legislative straitjacket?
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Social media at the heart of localism
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Spending review: invest in our success
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Three-point plan to drive local growth
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Getting councils building again
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New homes bonus must be made fairer
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Be proud about asking tricky questions
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Planning to close the economic gap
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Dilnot is a building block, let’s move on
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From the sandpit to social change…
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Council housing: a driver for growth
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Engage with sector-led improvement
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Health, wealth and social tenancies
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Competitive wound licking wastes time
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A joint vision of a world-class future
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Housing set to top political agenda
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Participation itself is part of our remit
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Defining the ‘co-operative council’
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Care vision thwarted by blame culture
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Key shifts in our concept of leadership
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The fiscal decision we can’t defer
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Consensus to drive children’s agenda
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The case for a food security strategy
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We know community budgets can work
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Dilnot or not – we need better funding
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Rhetoric no measure of real reform
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Education funding still not equitable
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Local housing need at odds with national planning policy
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Desperately seeking straight answers
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Triple challenge to drive care strategy
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Governance to drive city deal success
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Do we stay calm and carry on? No…
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Imaginative shift to access investment
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Article 8 doesn't mean you can't take possession
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Resilience a building block for change
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Care challenges defy boundaries
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This crisis demands a new mandate
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The council is a catalyst for growth
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We are now free to call our own tune
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Residents determine recycling results
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It’s time to round up the usual suspects
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A strong identity is driving growth
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We need to build design capacity
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A local champion for every child
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Right genre, wrong reference
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Boards are briefed but the task is tough
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Governance is the key to growth
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Myths and realities when it comes to EU procurement rules
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Devolution key to reform challenge
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On the parish council learning curve
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Rethink the voluntary care sector
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The case for a national care service
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The train, the midwife and the moral
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Health: ripe for whole place plans
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Keep momentum in social work reform
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Energy scheme promises many benefits
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Trust community budgets to succeed
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Open data: in need of senior support
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What’s wrong with our civil service?
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Reforms to tackle adopter recruitment
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Traditional strategies may be obsolete
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The moral of the mansion tax saga
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Care quality assessment under review
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Council offer key in spending round
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Council role in future teacher supply
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Smart research to target resources
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Government, scouts and smokescreens
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Peer review more important than ever
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How can Health and Wellbing Boards and Academic Health Science Networks collaborate?
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Unjustifiable cuts in grant control
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There’s a vacuum at the very top
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The city is thriving in a harsh climate
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Demand management to drive change
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FoI: from the topline to the subtext
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Localism means leading on council tax
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Kitchen sinks fit for a greener future
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A new dynamic for local areas
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Settlement logic proving elusive
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Strong leadership shuns populist tack
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Loss of control for homes will hurt
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School system must lead on localism
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Be brave enough to embrace disruption
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Cuts call for total transformation
