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Welfare changes could leave councils footing redundancy bill
DWP tells councils housing benefit staff will not be covered by Tupe regulations
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New wave of city deals expected within weeks
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‘Certainty rate' indecision posing 'time and money' burden for councils
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Whitehall school funding formula sparks concern for council role
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District decisions set to send counties’ welfare bills soaring
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Clark: not the end of the road for city mayors
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Labour retakes crisis-hit Wirral
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Labour surpasses election ambitions
This week's opinion
Holding council performances up to comparative scrutiny
Comparative statistical analysis has been displaced from the Audit Commission to the core of government
Inside Out - Internet Trolls
A few prosecutions for racism is insignificant given the prevalence of nastiness on social media
A new network for change
Research into local and national government has been increasingly drawn to the fact that networks play a large part in political and managerial life
We start by 'thinking the unthinkable'
Experience has taught me that it is crucial to drive change from within by gathering together the enthusiastic and working with them
Being pragmatic about the future
In developing a strategy for health and wellbeing, you have to be very pragmatic about the future
LGC View - The ChangeMakers project
Key to the project are 240 or so local people who are taking a lead in being involved in a network of mutual support and skill-sharing
Local democracy is changing
One benefit of the mayoral result is that it will be possible to see if Liverpool and Bristol perform more effectively
How CCGs will be judged
If we ask how our decisions benefit services at each stage, we will ensure we focus on patients, not organisations
Inside Out - Council Housing
Councils may have no choice but to find people homes across the country but we need to tell the story properly
LGC View - Local elections 2012
If Labour had a good night, the corollary is that the Conservatives had a bad one - but for the Lib Dems it was disastrous
This week's briefings
Fresh focus for financial management
The current ‘comfort ‘of resource forecasting will be swept away with obvious impacts for maintaining robust and effective financial management
'Use scorecards to prove your point'
Let’s take these scorecards as a learning opportunity – one which further galvanises local government to perfect the art of sector led improvement and, consequently, shows Government that, in future, it does not need to do things this way
Research identifies social media value
Over the past three years the Young Foundation has been working with several communities to test how social media can empower local people.
Austerity a springboard for creativity
The process of decommissioning can be constructive, creative, and - most importantly - result in better outcomes
Blame culture threat to real progress
The momentum around sector led improvement is really beginning to gather pace
Open data bridging hard-to-reach gap
Open data is all about building more and better apps to deliver digital public services. So what use is open data for people who aren’t online?
This week's leader
Localism does not mean isolation
The plans to abolish locally set school funding criteria raise fears for small rural schools and illustrate the government’s confused thinking on localism
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This week's analysis
The full force of social productivity
There is little disagreement from either left or right that reductions in public spending will demand a transformation in ways of working
This week's mediawatch
Mediawatch - It’s your job to say it exactly like it is…
Think you’re apolitical in your local government communications job? You’re very much mistaken
This week's expert comment
Independent arbiters can help councils negotiate the 'fair' cost of care
Earlier this month insurance company LV= published research that estimated that the cost of providing long-term care for our ageing population will reach £38bn by 2025
New ways of working: councils rise to the grant reduction challenge
Reduced central government funding presented councils with the challenge to ‘do more with less’. East Midlands Councils, the East Midlands Improvement and Efficiency Partnership and Capita researched how they have delivered these savings
