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Future Forum Midlands: Test, learn and grow to enter new phase
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Future Forum Midlands: Test, learn and grow to enter new phase

By Martin Ford | 10 September 2025

The Government is preparing to share learning from the test, learn and grow programme, The MJ’s Future Forum Midlands has heard.

TRANSPORT

Labour drops plans to introduce LTN restrictions

By Izzy Lepone | 18 August 2025

The Government has reportedly abandoned plans to impose limitations on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Expecting the unexpected

By Stephen Gaskell | 17 July 2025

Five years on from the easing of Covid restrictions, Stephen Gaskell says the sector proved that ...

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...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Could they be a contender?

By Jack Shaw | 03 July 2025

If Reform-controlled authorities prove dysfunctional or obstructive will that erode trust in both...

FINANCE

Government 'localising blame'

By Martin Ford | 26 June 2025

The Government has been accused of ‘localising blame’ by relying on council tax hikes to prop up ...

HOUSING

Councils face enforcement capacity 'struggle'

By Martin Ford | 18 June 2025

A cornerstone of the Renter’s Rights Bill is under threat due to a lack of council capacity, the ...

FINANCE

Government handling of NICs increase 'unacceptable'

By Martin Ford | 18 June 2025

Ministers made a ‘major misstep’ in failing to assess the impact of the National Insurance Contri...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Councils warned to be 'open to scrutiny' in grooming gangs inquiry

By Martin Ford | 17 June 2025

There has been a ‘collective failure’ to address questions about the ethnicity of perpetrators wh...

REORGANISATION

Reform and reorganisation

By Laura Hughes | 28 May 2025

Laura Hughes asks what Reform UK’s local elections success will mean for local government reorgan...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Legal threats to Reform ambitions

By Martin Ford | 21 May 2025

Reform UK’s ambitions to shake up local government could be stymied by legal hurdles, an expert w...

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