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Opinion split over election date

By Dan Peters | 02 February 2021

Concerned council chief executives have continued to express safety fears about holding elections...

Extremist fears over vaccine myths

By Dan Peters | 02 February 2021

Far-right extremists are feared to be behind the circulation of coronavirus vaccine myths on soci...

Councils submit latest financial data

By Dan Peters | 01 February 2021

Councils have submitted their ninth data return on the pandemic-related pressures facing their fi...

Council business park remains offshore

By Dan Peters | 01 February 2021

Labour-run Warrington Council has still not decided whether to bring an out-of-town business park...

Scottish Budget 'falls short'

By Dan Peters | 29 January 2021

The Scottish Government’s £11.6bn budget ‘falls short of the fair funding local government requir...

Scottish councils' cost call

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2021

Scottish local authorities have called for the costs of COVID-19 to be met by the Government nort...

McArdle drafted in to help Croydon

By Dan Peters | 26 January 2021

The lead commissioner at Northamptonshire CC, Tony McArdle, has been appointed to chair Section 1...

Elderly in new campaign of civil disobedience

By Dan Peters | 26 January 2021

Up to two million older people in the UK denied the social care support they need could refuse to...

Fresh calls for standards code sanctions

By Dan Peters | 26 January 2021

Fresh calls for meaningful sanctions on badly behaving councillors were made this week after the ...

Councils told to return millions in business grants to Whitehall

By Dan Peters | 25 January 2021

Councils are being ordered to return millions of pounds in business grants to Whitehall even with...