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How to deal with the uncertainty that local government faces

How to deal with the uncertainty that local government faces

Michael Kitts discusses the changes ahead, and how to build more resilient systems.

by Michael Kitts - July 12, 2022
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Do we need a ‘National Child Protection Service’?

Do we need a ‘National Child Protection…

Image credit: @aboutwithneilmp It was standing room only at a packed Localis fringe event to debate whether the UK needs…

by Jenna Collins - October 4, 2016
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Local leadership please

Local leadership please

If you’ve been glued to the coverage of the EU referendum result in recent days then you, like me, might…

by Jenny McArdle - June 27, 2016
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Budget 2016 response: Devolution under threat

Budget 2016 response: Devolution under threat

The Chancellor’s business rate reduction in today’s Budget is a bitter pill for local government to swallow. Just when it…

by Martin Cresswell - March 16, 2016
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Bad Behavioural Economics

Bad Behavioural Economics

In their 2008 book Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein dedicate a whole chapter, entitled Objections, to various criticisms of behavioural economics….

by Liam Booth-Smith - February 5, 2016
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The Spending Review: Tough choices to make

The Spending Review: Tough choices to make

The social care council tax precept is good politics for George Osborne and bad politics for local government. He’s devolving…

by Martin Cresswell - November 25, 2015
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What binds the EU and Devolution debates?

What binds the EU and Devolution debates?

In his 1941 essay collection, The Lion and Unicorn, George Orwell remarked that “In England patriotism takes different forms in…

by Liam Booth-Smith - November 11, 2015
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Tax credits and the productivity puzzle

Tax credits and the productivity puzzle

Being anti tax-credit cuts puts you in a seriously eclectic camp. We have the Labour Party, the new and fragile…

by Liam Booth-Smith - October 27, 2015
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The Spending Review Cometh

The Spending Review Cometh

Find your nearest stack of recent local government trade magazines and place your hands above them. Can you feel the…

by Liam Booth-Smith - September 28, 2015
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