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Spending Review: UKSPF to reach £1.5bn a year

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2020

The value of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will reach around £1.5bn a year on average, ch...

Spending Review: £2.9bn 'restart programme' to help unemployed

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a three-year £2.9bn ‘restart programme’ to help more than on...

Councils key to tackling 'anti-vax mob'

By Ann McGauran | 24 November 2020

Councils must act quickly to knock down the ‘anti-vax mob’ as the Government puts the sector at t...

Councils still hungry for cash despite winter grant scheme

By Dan Peters | 24 November 2020

Councils that want to use the new £170m COVID winter grant scheme to stop children going hungry d...

EXCLUSIVE: Stretched councils rumbled over identical financial returns

By Dan Peters | 23 November 2020

Councils have been reminded to regularly update their monthly financial returns to Whitehall afte...

Auditors probe gagging orders

By Dan Peters | 23 November 2020

Auditors have delayed signing off Thanet DC’s 2019/20 accounts while they investigate the council...

Gateshead to regain control of housing stock

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2020

Senior Gateshead MBC councillors have agreed to bring back housing stock under the council’s cont...

Leisure centre collapse warning

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2020

Under-pressure leisure centres will go under without further rescue funding on top of the £100m a...

Crisis-hit Croydon approves action plan

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2020

Croydon LBC has approved an action plan to put ‘strong financial management and governance right ...

Proportional votes to come to Wales

By Dan Peters | 19 November 2020

Proportional voting will be introduced to Welsh council elections for the first time as the franc...