FINANCE
LGA calls for EHCP scale back amid potential backlash
By Emily Twinch | 10 July 2025
Local authorities have called for the scaling back of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) despite a backlash as the Government looks to reform the regime.
FINANCE
Envoys sent in to indebted council
By William Eichler | 10 July 2025
Concerns about Warrington BC’s levels of debt have prompted the Government to send in four minist...
LEGISLATION
Unite hits out at Labour in fire and rehire move
By Heather Jameson | 09 July 2025
Councils under government intervention could be exempt from a legal ban on so-called fire and reh...
FINANCE
A moment for leadership
By By Iain Murray | 09 July 2025
Director of public financial management at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounta...
FINANCE
Council pressures have 'increased significantly', says OBR
By Dan Peters | 09 July 2025
Councils face ‘growing risks to their financial sustainability’, the UK’s official forecaster has...
FINANCE
Concern over areas 'left behind' by devolution
By Martin Ford | 08 July 2025
Angela Rayner has rebutted concerns from Labour MPs that areas are being left behind in the race ...
FINANCE
Outsourcing spend up by 10%
By Emily Twinch | 08 July 2025
The amount English local authorities shelled out on outside suppliers went up 10% last year compa...
REORGANISATION
Three Essex unitaries 'strikes right balance'
By Dan Peters | 07 July 2025
Three unitary councils ‘strikes the right balance’ for Essex, the leader of the county council, K...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Common sense Reform
By Paul Marinko | 03 July 2025
Reform UK is taking a measured approach to implementing change as the party takes charge of Durha...
COUNCIL TAX
Relieving the pressure on public finances
By Piali Das Gupta | 03 July 2025
Local government must be properly resourced for any new duties it is tasked with, writes Piali Da...
FINANCE
Many questions – few answers
By Heather Jameson | 02 July 2025
'As the sector gathers in Liverpool for the Local Government Association annual conference, both ...
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