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Call to devolve employment support
DEVOLUTION

Call to devolve employment support

By Martin Ford | 17 April 2026

Mayors should be enlisted to provide support for people out of work due to ill health, a new report has urged.

HIGHWAYS

Council threatens legal action over £20m roads funding row

By William Eichler | 13 April 2026

North Yorkshire Council has threatened to take legal action against York and North Yorkshire mayo...

HEALTH

Streeting's health experiment

By Matthew Taylor | 13 April 2026

The health deals recently handed to mayors could resolve flaws that have dogged the NHS since its...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Government must match mayoral responsibility with the resources to make it real

By Andrew Carter | 08 April 2026

A significantly expanded Mayoral Capacity Fund would allow MCAs to recruit the commercial, financ...

HEALTH

Health devolution: opportunity or distraction?

By Katherine Merrifield | 07 April 2026

It remains to be seen if giving the Mayors of Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire greater over...

PEOPLE

Sector mourns loss of 'giant of English devolution'

By Martin Ford | 02 April 2026

Tributes have been paid to the former chief executive of Greater Manchester Combined Authority (G...

REORGANISATION

Councils must be empowered to set all fees and charges

By Ian Miller | 02 April 2026

Ian Miller says it’s time to end the centralism where fees and charges 'are set by Whitehall, don...

DEVOLUTION

For devo, much now rests on how Labour responds to its likely local elections drubbing

By Akash Paun | 31 March 2026

Akash Paun says the risk is that political commitment drains away the more devolution resembles h...

DEVOLUTION

Now it's time to seize the initiative

By Simon Kaye | 25 March 2026

Simon Kaye sees an opportunity for a sceptical sector to push hard for further devolution.

FINANCE

A rocket booster has been fired under the tax devo debate

By David Phillips | 23 March 2026

Letting combined authorities benefit from a share of income tax revenue growth could encourage a ...

FINANCE

Fiscal devolution would give mayors crucial levers over tax and spend

By Andrew Carter | 23 March 2026

Andrew Carter says that to guarantee cities’ autonomy and mark what the Chancellor calls a ‘genui...

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