LGA calls for EHCP scale back amid potential backlash
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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Planning & Regulatory Enforcement Lawyer

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