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PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Five lessons to usher in Total Place 2.0
By Stephen Taylor | 16 December 2025
Stephen Taylor welcomes the launch of place-based budget pilots across five mayoral authorities. Drawing on fresh insights from this year’s Total Place-style projects in three councils, he highligh...
FINANCE
Clear allocation details are essential for councils to understand the waste funding system
By Tracy Bingham | 16 December 2025
Tracy Bingham says councils need certainty and clarity if they are to deliver on the vital waste ...
REGENERATION
Regeneration: Unpicking the new mayoral fund
By David Blackman | 16 December 2025
The Budget may not have pulled any rabbits out of the hat for growth and regeneration, but there ...
FINANCE
Locality arrangements must be right to avoid remoteness between new unitaries and residents
By Kathy O'Leary | 16 December 2025
The recent removal of ‘remoteness’ as a factor in determining council funding through the Fair Fu...
OUTSOURCING
Reform dismisses surge in council contract values
By Martin Ford | 16 December 2025
Reform UK has dismissed an analysis showing the value of contracts signed by councils it controls...
PAY
Pay hike plans cause rift at Reform-led council
By Martin Ford | 16 December 2025
Proposals to make golden handcuffs payments to staff have caused a rift among the Reform UK admin...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: Local government outcomes framework to be expanded
By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 11 December 2025
Whitehall plan to broaden outcomes framework revealed.
FINANCE
Council tax prison call
By Dan Peters | 11 December 2025
England should follow Scotland and Wales in scrapping the sanction of imprisonment for non-paymen...
HOMELESSNESS
£3.5bn investment to 'end homelessness for good'
By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025
A cross-government plan to ‘end homelessness for good’ by preventing it before it occurs has been...
POLICY AND POLITICS
MHCLG blow as councils' housebuilding expansion comes to a halt
By By Neil Merrick | 10 December 2025
A surge in housebuilding by councils is expected to grind to a halt – threatening the Government’...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Ministers threatened with food waste refusal
By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025
Council leaders have warned ministers some local authorities will refuse to collect food waste.
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