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WHITEHALL

Oflog 'could help strengthen local government accountability'

By Dan Peters | 06 April 2023

The executive Mayor of beleaguered Croydon has suggested the Government’s new local government wa...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Government monitoring Tower Hamlets after chief's sudden departure

By Dan Peters | 03 April 2023

The Government has revealed it is ‘monitoring the situation’ at Tower Hamlets LBC following the s...

FINANCE

Labour pledges to freeze council tax

By Dan Peters | 30 March 2023

Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged to spend £2.7bn freezing council tax for a y...

REORGANISATION

Lincolnshire districts back unitary idea

By Ann McGauran | 28 March 2023

A partnership of three district councils has backed the idea of becoming a unitary to help secure...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils stretched despite fund boost

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2023

Councils have raised the alarm over their capacity to deliver the Household Support Fund (HSF) as...

FINANCE

Bromley to stay in London collective investment vehicle

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2023

Bromley LBC will stay in the London collective investment vehicle (LCIV) pooling Local Government...

FINANCE

Harris under pressure to back slashing of audit requirements

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2023

The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) first director of local audit is facing increasing pressu...

FINANCE

Croydon pushes ahead with drive to hold former leaders to account

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2023

Croydon LBC has announced ‘unprecedented action’ to hold ex-senior leadership to account for ‘mis...

BUSINESS

Dundee workers to strike over outsourcing plan

By Dan Peters | 21 March 2023

More than 300 Dundee City Council workers have voted to strike as they fight plans to outsource s...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Future Forum: Workforce crisis may stop us in our tracks

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2023

The workforce crisis facing local government is the ‘big one that will stop us all in our tracks,...

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