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Hiba Mahamadi

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PAC: Government should intervene over local plans

By Hiba Mahamadi | 26 June 2019

The Government should use its ‘powers to intervene’ to ensure councils without local plans make t...

Councils to get £300,000 for obesity pilots

By Hiba Mahamadi | 25 June 2019

The Government has decided to award five local authorities £300,000 each to trial programmes to t...

Chief executives least likely to be privately educated

By Hiba Mahamadi | 24 June 2019

Council chief executives are among the least likely to have been privately educated compared to t...

'Stuck in the past'

By Hiba Mahamadi | 13 June 2019

Campaigners have claimed parts of local government are ‘still stuck firmly in the past’ after a c...

Voter ID confidence drops

By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 June 2019

The proportion of people who think voter ID helps to prevent electoral fraud has dropped from 52%...

Court ruling defends council but warns others

By Hiba Mahamadi | 10 June 2019

A crucial Supreme Court judgment has dismissed a family’s claim against a council for housing the...

Scottish pension fund highlights 'significant achievements'

By Hiba Mahamadi | 10 June 2019

A Scottish pension fund administered by Aberdeen City Council has posted a profit in excess of £3...

£250bn and more devolution needed to tackle oncoming crisis

By Hiba Mahamadi | 28 May 2019

The Government needs to invest £250bn and commit to devolution if it is to tackle the jobs, housi...

Unchaining social value

By Hiba Mahamadi | 28 May 2019

A new report reveals some councils are building social value into their procurement – but that se...

Scottish councils need more power - think-tank

By Hiba Mahamadi | 28 May 2019

Scottish local government needs a ‘renewal,’ a think tank has urged, with directly elected mayors...