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EXCLUSIVE: Local government outcomes framework to be expanded

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 11 December 2025

Whitehall plan to broaden outcomes framework revealed.

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...

£3.5bn investment to 'end homelessness for good'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025

A cross-government plan to ‘end homelessness for good’ by preventing it before it occurs has been...

EXCLUSIVE: Ministers threatened with food waste refusal

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025

Council leaders have warned ministers some local authorities will refuse to collect food waste.

Future Forum North: Hold your values steady

By Dan Peters | 05 December 2025

The chair of senior officers’ group Solace has told leaders to hold their values steady amid incr...

Future Forum North: Devolution is here to stay

By Dan Peters | 04 December 2025

Devolution ‘can feel like a marriage with no prospect of divorce’ but is ‘here to stay’, the pres...

EXCLUSIVE: ICB debt hits £570m

By Lee Peart | 04 December 2025

Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) owe English councils hundreds of millions of pounds, creating cash ...

Killian reveals ICB tensions

By Lee Peart | 04 December 2025

Local Government Association (LGA) chief executive Joanna Killian has spoken of ‘tensions’ betwee...

Kent in 'devolution desert' warning

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2025

All 14 of Kent’s council leaders have warned ministers of the risk of the county becoming a ‘devo...

Government moves to strengthen council inquiries

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2025

A Government amendment was yesterday introduced to the Hillsborough law to strengthen local autho...