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Councils 'will be ready' to welcome back shoppers

By Dan Peters | 29 May 2020

Local authorities will be ready to welcome shoppers back to the high street if retail is allowed ...

EXCLUSIVE: Four months before action taken on second business rates error

By Dan Peters | 29 May 2020

Senior Whitehall officials were not told about a second major error in the administration of busi...

Government call for rough sleeping plan

By Dan Peters | 29 May 2020

Council chiefs have been asked to draw up a support plan for rough sleepers who have been put up ...

LGA: Councils need £6bn more

By Dan Peters | 29 May 2020

Councils need as much as £6bn more to cover the additional costs and losses incurred as a direct ...

Local lockdown powers up in the air

By Dan Peters | 27 May 2020

Council powers over calling a local lockdown are still to be thrashed out as the NHS’ test and tr...

EXCLUSIVE: LGA split over worker bonus

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2020

A cross-party agreement that the Local Government Association (LGA) would lobby for a coronavirus...

Fresh funding row brews

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2020

Another row was brewing this week over how much councils have spent on coronavirus and how much t...

Care home plans deadline unrealistic, say councils

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2020

Councils have warned that tomorrow’s deadline for producing care home support plans is ‘unrealist...

Call to 'shore up' worst-hit local economies

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2020

The Government should ‘shore up’ the local economies worst affected by coronavirus before levelli...

Councils call for single supply system for PPE

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2020

Councils have called for a single system for the distribution of personal protective equipment (P...