NLGN is proud to welcome Sir Chris Ham to our Board. Sir Chris is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist. He was chief executive of the King’s Fund from 2010 to 2018, and was professor of health policy and management at University of Birmingham’s health services management centre from 1992 […]

29/6/20 – 03/7/20 Local authorities are indispensable in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local people safe and informed. In this time of great uncertainty, councils have taken new, radical and innovative […]

Rory Palmer was deputy city mayor of Leicester between 2011 and 2017. Following the announcement that Leicester will face a localised lockdown, Palmer tracks the Government’s inflexible and heavily centralised approach and its failure to engage local leaders or share information that could save lives. These are failures, he says, that must not be repeated […]

For its first 18 pages, Michael Gove’s agenda-setting speech on government reform is a powerful analysis of the profound challenges facing the UK and its political class. Unfortunately, the speech is 69 pages long. Which means the majority of the speech proposes solutions that simply are not up to the gargantuan challenges Gove identifies. The […]

22/6/20 – 26/6/20 Local authorities are indispensable in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local people safe and informed. In this time of great uncertainty, councils have taken new, radical and innovative […]

In our Decades in Days series, we talk to the people leading change in local government. They tell us about their work, their place, and the effect of COVID-19 on both. We find out how they are dealing with the incredible demands of a pandemic, and how this moment might be used to shift and […]

There have been smiles and tears, exhilaration and complete exhaustion. The past months seem like a year and the normality of the time before the pandemic seems a lifetime ago. Yet in such a short time we have achieved so much. More than 600 of our staff have been redeployed to frontline services to support […]

COVID-19 was a threat to the whole nation. Now it’s increasingly a threat to those who suffer the greatest inequalities. Alex Fox, CEO of Shared Lives Plus, argues that we need to see a rapid shift from the ‘command and control’ leadership style which arguably saved the NHS a few weeks ago, to a much […]