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Council chief hails policy change

By Dan Peters | 03 August 2020

The chief executive of the council working to contain coronavirus within a vegetable farm in Here...

Government to cover LRF expenditure

By Dan Peters | 03 August 2020

Funding will finally be provided to stretched local resilience forums (LRF) after they pleaded fo...

Councils urge extension for grants support scheme

By Dan Peters | 03 August 2020

Fresh calls have been made for councils to be allowed to dole out to businesses the £1.6bn unspen...

Ministers: Don't rely on more funding

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Ministers have warned councils not to rely on more funding on top of the announcements made so far.

Council services to move to joint venture

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Derbyshire CC’s cleaning, caretaking and building design services will be transferred to joint ve...

CIPFA calls for strengthening of council borrowing rules

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Legislation governing the rules on council borrowing should be strengthened, the Chartered Instit...

Council to take commercialisation to 'next level'

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Senior Ashford BC councillors will accelerate their approach to commercialisation to the ‘next le...

Ministers to receive Somerset unitary business case

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

A business case for a single Somerset unitary has been sent to communities secretary Robert Jenri...

Government in attempted grants cash grab

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020

Fresh calls have been made for councils to be allowed to dole out to businesses the £1.6bn unspen...

'Small minority' of councils have still not had a corporate peer challenge, report finds

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020

The Local Government Association (LGA) should consider what further action it could take to encou...