Homelessness

Like several Prime Ministers before him, Andy Burnham has pledged to build new homes. That will not happen without local authorities and they have been out of the housebuilding game for a long time...

FINANCE

Social care is main driver of councils' emergency funding requests

By Ann McGauran | 27 July 2026

Social care is ‘taking centre stage’ as the main factor driving councils’ requests for exceptiona...

FINANCE

Councils' financial pressures: The story behind rising EFS demand

By Joanne Pitt | 27 July 2026

Analysis by CIPFA of requests by councils for exceptional financial support (EFS) shows some are ...

IMPROVEMENT

Is public service delivery really dead?

By Ben Page | 22 July 2026

Performance alone does not win public trust. While better outcomes matter, public opinion is shap...

HOUSING

London councils launch affordable housing legal challenge

By Dan Peters | 24 June 2026

Three London councils have launched a legal challenge to stop Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan’s cu...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Farage announces social housing foreigner ban

By Joe Lepper | 15 June 2026

Foreign nationals would be banned from social housing under a Reform UK government, party leader ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Home Office warned over asylum homelessness risk

By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026

The Government risks undermining its own ambition to cut homelessness unless it urgently strength...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Manchesterism owes more to joint working than to one man

By Heather Jameson | 21 May 2026

Manchesterism is 'not what Burnham has achieved, it is what the combined partnership working of l...

Death prevention duties

By Gill Taylor | 29 April 2026

Relationships between coroners and Safeguarding Adults Boards are often inconsistent and unclear,...

HOMELESSNESS

Mayors: A secret weapon to tackle homelessness?

By Jack Shaw | 29 April 2026

Jack Shaw says mayoral leadership can add much-needed ballast to a broken, expensive system that ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

MPs call for 'effective sanctions' on B&B use councils

By Joe Lepper | 22 April 2026

Councils that repeatedly fail to end the use of bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation for familie...