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POLICY AND POLITICS

Home Office warned over asylum homelessness risk

By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026

The Government risks undermining its own ambition to cut homelessness unless it urgently strength...

REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs lobby Government over severance payment threshold

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2026

Council chiefs have been lobbying the Government to relax the requirements around special severan...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Burnham calls for council powers boost

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2026

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has called for more council enforcement powers to support E...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Cheshire East's Polkinghorne decides to step down

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2026

The chief executive of Cheshire East Council, Rob Polkinghorne, has ‘decided to step down from my...

LEADERSHIP

Solace steps up lobbying over district exclusion from leadership event

By Dan Peters | 08 June 2026

The organisation representing senior officers has stepped up its lobbying after a Cabinet Office ...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Matthews named as CCN chair elect

By Dan Peters | 08 June 2026

The County Councils Network (CCN) has announced Lincolnshire CC leader Cllr Sean Matthews as its ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

MPs scold Home Office over lack of council involvement in asylum

By Dan Peters | 05 June 2026

Local authorities still lack a ‘meaningful say’ in asylum accommodation decisions, a cross-party ...

UNIONS

GMB members vote to reject pay offer

By Dan Peters | 28 May 2026

Members of trade union GMB have voted to reject a 3.3% pay offer from the Local Government Associ...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

EXCLUSIVE: Counties to take concerns to top

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Joe Lepper | 28 May 2026

The County Councils Network (CCN) was this week preparing to take its concerns about local govern...

FINANCE

LGPS employers benefit from contribution rate drop

By Dan Peters | 27 May 2026

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) employers are benefiting from an easing in their contribut...

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