Improvement
The latest news, briefings and opinions on improvement
News
Exclusive: Peer challenge receives DH seal of approval
Model will also be extended to NHS, using extra Department of Health funding
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Improvement board drops adoption focus
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Ministers defend sector-led improvement
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Health quango eyes troubled families role
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Peer review 'soft but credible'
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Department of Health gives self-improvement drive £500k boost
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UPDATED: Gove U-turn spells confusion for sector led improvement
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Ofsted report prompts Sandwell resignations
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EXCLUSIVE: Children's improvement funding cut
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Adoption improvement ‘should be sector led’
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Call to defer new Ofsted checks
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Tower Hamlets appoints interim
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MPs attack sector-led improvement
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Two ordered to improve children's services
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Confident Durham 'must improve skill base'
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Wirral may insource highways work
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Anglesey intervention steps down a notch
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Revealed - full details of troubled families scheme
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Timetable for commissioning group authorisation revealed
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Details of improvement regime emerge
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Single improvement framework to be drawn up
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Gove 'shines light' with adoption scorecards
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Councils urged to keep investing in school improvement
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Exclusive: Council 'brokering' role on school closure contested
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Commissioning board says support bodies 'on the cusp of failing'
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United local view vital for role share
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Council seeks public inquiry into adult services abuses
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Slow progress at intervention councils
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Auditors tell council to drop 'informal' management style
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LGA called in after care scandal
Opinion
Look and learn
From pioneering engagement work overseas to the digital drive in the private sector, there are many examples to inspire local government
Be afraid, be very afraid
The Local Government Association has good reason to be fearful about a more oppressive future
Briefings
Partnerships key to 'place resilience'
Tom Stannard discusses a “third (sector) way” for local government improvement
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Have your say on leadership skills
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Three-point plan to drive local growth
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Engage with sector-led improvement
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Kitchen sinks fit for a greener future
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A new era in commercial thinking
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Fight the old guard centralisers
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Olympic logic offers strategic lessons
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Joint effort to shape sector's future
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Plan B: working beyond the affordable








