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Senior councillors meet to agree Amey terms

By Martin Ford | 21 May 2019

Birmingham City Council’s cabinet is to decide on terms to end its fraught highways contract with...

Lack of culture change warning after new homelessness law

By Martin Ford | 21 May 2019

Councils have not undergone the ‘culture change’ needed to implement the Homelessness Reduction A...

Government urges pensions managers to adopt new tools

By Martin Ford | 21 May 2019

New tools aiming to help local government pension schemes achieve value for money by standardisin...

Birmingham unveils plans to build thousands of homes in next decade

By Martin Ford | 17 May 2019

Birmingham City Council’s housebuilding company has announced plans to build almost 3,000 new hom...

Education enterprise to be formed by Redbridge

By Martin Ford | 17 May 2019

Redbridge LBC is to form a joint venture with schools in the borough in a bid to generate more in...

'Significant areas of weakness' found in Stockton's SEND provision

By Martin Ford | 17 May 2019

Watchdogs have criticised the pace of improvements in provision for children with special educati...

Homes England strikes multi-million pound deal with Japanese housebuilder

By Martin Ford | 16 May 2019

Japan’s biggest housebuilder has moved into the UK market after striking a £90m deal with Homes E...

Birmingham to scrap controversial care service reorganisation

By Martin Ford | 16 May 2019

A long-running industrial dispute between Birmingham City Council and care workers is expected to...

Shared Prosperity Fund consultation to start 'very shortly'

By Martin Ford | 15 May 2019

Consultation on the post-Brexit replacement for European structural funding must happen before th...

Councils left in dark over youth offending budgets

By Martin Ford | 15 May 2019

Funding uncertainty is undermining councils’ efforts to tackle knife crime and County Lines drug ...