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Budget: Reeves commits to homelessness review

By Dan Peters | 27 November 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to a review of homelessness service funding.

Devo Bill 'snatches' power upwards

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025

Power is being ‘snatched upwards and away from local voices’ by the English Devolution and Commun...

Budget: Council tax surcharge to 'support funding for local government services'

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025

Revenue from the high value council tax surcharge will be used to ‘support funding for local gove...

Major cyber attack hits London councils

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025

Multiple London councils are believed to have been targeted in a major cyber attack, leaving resi...

Reed vows to stop those trying to pull country apart

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2025

Communities secretary Steve Reed has vowed to stop ‘people at the extremes of politics who are tr...

Review to assess fee devolution

By Dan Peters | 21 November 2025

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced a review of counc...

McGovern reminds councils over reorganisation publicity

By Dan Peters | 21 November 2025

Council at risk of MHCLG intervention backs urgent reforms

By William Eichler | 21 November 2025

Isle of Wight Council has backed urgent reforms after an independent report warned it risked Gove...

Council calls for elections delay

By Izzy Lepone | 20 November 2025

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council has asked the Government to postpone next year’s local gove...

EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs' pay slump

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2025

Chief executives’ advertised salaries drop below four-year inflation rate, The MJ’s data analysis...