After the riots
LGA CONFERENCE

After the riots

By Martin Ford | 08 July 2025

A session at last week’s LGA conference in Liverpool heard insights from one place impacted by last summer’s rioting, with reflections on the key lessons learned. Martin Ford reports.

COUNCIL TAX

Grant funding's phase-in

By Ann McGauran | 02 July 2025

The fair funding review 2.0 has landed, but will it put the whole of a beleaguered sector onto a ...

LGA CONFERENCE

Still a vital voice for the sector

By Heather Jameson | 02 July 2025

As members met for its annual conference this week, the Local Government Association have a casca...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Re-wiring the state

By Ann McGauran | 27 June 2025

Sheffield’s network of Family Hubs are playing a crucial role in testing key aspects of the Gover...

SERVICE DELIVERY

Forging the future

By Martin Ford | 25 June 2025

With the sector in crisis and the need for radical change, fundamental questions are being asked ...

REORGANISATION

Lessons for uncertainty

By Ann McGauran | 17 June 2025

When it comes to reorganisation, you need to look at it from every angle. Ann McGauran spoke to e...

DEVOLUTION

Cross-border lessons in devo

By Heather Jameson | 11 June 2025

Devolution may be new for some English authorities, but it is a quarter of a century on in Scotla...

LGA

Councils' watershed moment

By Martin Ford | 05 June 2025

Next week’s Spending Review will have huge implications for the future finances of local governme...

REORGANISATION

Three years left to live?

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2025

Reorganisation proposals for Surrey have sparked divisions, even between councils with the same p...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The mayor necessities

By David Blackman | 28 May 2025

David Blackman talks to key sector figures on the important role the private sector can play work...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Defending growth

By Paul Marinko | 22 May 2025

Alongside next month’s Spending Review the Government will announce its Industrial Strategy, but ...

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