Sir Bob Kerslake, Permanent Secretary for the Department for Communities and Local Government, guest blogs on the recommendations of his independent review of Birmingham City Council and how they apply to other councils too...
Guest blogger Rob Wilson, Minister for Civil Society, discusses expanding social action and encouraging social investment to transform public service delivery...
Fire and rescue services are operating in a very different world from the one they served as little as 10 years ago. In the last decade the number of call outs and incidents has nearly halved; deaths from fires in …
Local Government Minister Kris Hopkins blogs about his visit to Oxford Grove Children’s Centre, a pilot project aimed at increasing the number of children ready to start school aged 5.
Stephen Williams, Communities and Local Government Minister, discusses the new £2 million Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods fund to help communities provide better local services.
Stephen Curtis, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing, identifies personal stories as the answer to better information sharing…
For our first blog post, Local Government Minister Kris Hopkins shares examples of councils and local services working together...