Title
HEALTH AND CARE INTEGRATION
Care partnership set to disband
By Martin Ford | 24 March 2026
Councils in Wales have called time on a partnership pooling health and care budgets.
FINANCE
Call for Welsh tax divergence from England
By Martin Ford | 20 March 2026
Wales should diverge from England on local taxation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has r...
SOCIAL CARE
How do we make a success of a National Care Service?
By William Burns | 11 March 2026
England, Scotland and Wales are at different stages of their journey towards a National Care Serv...
WALES
Proposals for Welsh council tax referendums
By Dan Peters | 05 March 2026
Conservatives and Reform UK have proposed a requirement for local authorities to hold a referendu...
PAY
EXCLUSIVE: Pay spine review kicks off
By Dan Peters | 26 February 2026
Work has started on a review of the national pay scale used to determine salaries for most counci...
FINANCE
Lessons in tourism levies
By Martin Ford | 05 February 2026
Powers to implement visitor levies will soon be available in all corners of the country. Martin F...
WALES
Welsh Government funding boost for councils
By Joe Lepper | 22 January 2026
The Welsh Government has confirmed it will make £112.8m in additional funding available to local ...
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...
FINANCE
Prevention, people and the future of public services in Wales
By Joanne Pitt | 05 December 2025
The idea of prevention being both necessary and achievable became a thread that ran through the ...
WALES
Welsh settlement 'does not come close' to matching pressures
By William Eichler | 25 November 2025
Local authority leaders across Wales have warned the provisional 2026-27 local government settlem...
WALES
Welsh councils 'very close' to issuing s114 notices
By Paul Marinko | 11 November 2025
Wales’ outgoing auditor general has reportedly said some of the country’s councils are ‘very clos...
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