A new campaign has been launched to ensure more services are kept in public hands, as Buckinghamshire CC creates the largest local government mutual in England.
Ministers today urged community groups to bid for a 4.2m Government cashpot made available to encourage under-represented groups to enrol on the electoral register.
Localis is pleased to present it’s Conference Prospectus for the 2013 Party Conferences.
In 10 years’ time over half of council budgets will be consumed by adult social care ? so how can councils do things differently?
London mayor Boris Johnson has published a final version of his London rental standard, aimed at raising standards in the citys booming private rented sector.
Localis participated in the Guardian’s latest live discussion on: How can local government encourage staff to come up with bright ideas?
Councils can complain to health secretary Jeremy Hunt if they believe local NHS groups are ignoring the commissioning strategies set by health and wellbeing boards, the Department of Health has said.
The next phase of community budgets is set to be a key general election battleground as the main parties develop their strategies in the next few months for managing public services beyond 2015.
Localis Chief Executive, Alex Thomson, reflects on what the council of 2020 might look like and what the challenges over the next decade might be.
Public servants who form ‘John Lewis’ style mutuals to deliver key services need better access to external finance, a government-backed report has concluded.