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Localism: Rhetoric or Reality

January 2013

  • A shelf filled with books

    Content round-up: Localism: rhetoric or reality?

  • Formula One Cars in Spanish Grand Prix

    Councils must convince others they can lead integrated public service reform

  • A football post

    Putting evidence into policy-making is a game of two halves

  • Gulliver's travels

    Partnership crucial to push localism agenda in 2013

December 2012

  • Athletes cross a rope bridge during the Tough Guy event in Perton

    Public service leadership needs true partnership working

    A shared vision for localism must be powerful and credible to transcend narrow institutional boundaries, says Lord Michael Bichard

November 2012

  • Box of vegetables

    The NHS needs radical localism to improve public health

  • Three men standing on see saw outdoors

    Equal partnership: local and central government

  • Panel members at LGLQ event in Manchester

    LGLQ: Whitehall's localism is 'meaningless' for local government

    Sir Howard Bernstein warns audience at Guardian local government leaders event that Whitehall remains closed to working with councils. Kate McCann reports

  • Local houses

    Live Q&As
    Live discussion: local solutions to national problems

    Join us from 12pm to 2pm on Thursday 25 October to discuss who should be shaping local services
  • The new local leadership hub on the Public Leaders Network will discuss local government stars

    Local leadership on the Public Leaders Network

    Welcome to the latest offering from a longstanding partnership with the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives
  • Whitehall sign and civil servant

    Ambitious local government craves autonomy from Whitehall

  • Services for the young and the elderly are compromised by a lack of collaboration between agencies.

    Public Leaders viewpoint
    Government should commit to real devolvement of power and resources

  • The clock face at Manchester Town Hall

    Greater Manchester Combined Authority is a model for regional cities

  • Cornwall, land of the pasty, has achieved a level of growth that has only been bettered by London.

    Whitehall can empower counties like Cornwall

  • The paradox of education reform

  • Video: John O'Brien on localism and innovation

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