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Future Forum: Councils urged to embrace Total Place

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

Councils should seize the opportunity presented by ministers’ renewed interest in Total Place, ac...

Future Forum: Senior job opportunities on horizon

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

Local government reorganisation offers job market ‘opportunities’ as well as challenges for senio...

Future Forum: Reorganisation threat to transformation

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

Fears that ambitions to include transformation alongside local government reorganisation may not ...

Rising to the cyber defence challenge

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

The landscape of cyber defence for local government has been undergoing an evolution. Martin Ford...

Future Forum: Warning against 'more of the same' post-reorganisation

By Martin Ford | 11 March 2026

Fundamental questions remain to be answered in the local government reorganisation process, The M...

Council backlash over asylum reforms

By Martin Ford | 11 March 2026

The Government was this week accused of shifting the burden of supporting asylum seekers to counc...

Councils urged to tackle family voting

By Martin Ford | 10 March 2026

Councils have been challenged to focus on tackling family voting in May’s local elections.

Lords share doubts over Local Audit Office plans

By Martin Ford | 09 March 2026

Concerns have been raised in the House of Lords over the Government’s plans for a Local Audit Off...

Epping Forest DC challenges High Court on Bell Hotel ruling

By Martin Ford | 06 March 2026

Epping Forest DC has returned to court in an attempt to secure an injunction against the use of t...

Minister orders review at Slough after 'slow progress'

By Martin Ford | 05 March 2026

Ministers have ordered an external review into Slough BC due to the ‘slow pace of progress’ in tu...