Dr Andy Johnston, Head of the Centre for Local Sustainability at the Local Government Information Unit, says either stricter insurance requirements are needed or Councils could issue disaster bonds.
Last week’s terrible floods in Cumbria...
PublicFinance has this story about H&F leader Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh:
""My mates are all in the shadow Cabinet, waiting to get those boxes, being terribly excited. I went to university with them, they haven’t run a piss-up in a brewery,’ he said....
Although the Liberal Democrats lost one seat to Labour they gained seats from us in St Austell & Newquay, Stratford-on-Avon and High Peak. I don't know the local circumstances in these setbacks but we always have to remember that such is our current...
Conservative MP Mark Field on Westminster Council's Family Recovery Programme
We live in a fractured society. Amongst other developments the rise of the internet, multiple media outlets and global travel, on a scale unimaginable a couple of decades...
The Conservative MP Tim Yeo gave an interesting speechin the House of Commons on Wednesday denouncing the social work practices of Suffolk County Council. Often social workers are criticised for being too slow to remove children from their birth...
