Articles by Mark Conrad
First asylum barge arrives
By Mark Conrad | 18 July 2023
A controversial barge for 500 asylum seekers today arrived at its mooring off the Dorset coast.
EXCLUSIVE: Council leaders hit out at Government asylum policy
By Mark Conrad | 17 July 2023
Council concerns over home secretary Suella Braverman’s handling of the asylum crisis have been l...
EXCLUSIVE: Councils' cyber threat exposed
By Mark Conrad | 17 July 2023
Councils’ cyber security requires ‘meaningful improvement’ as many town halls are at critical ris...
Dismay at 'top-down diktat' approach to asylum
By Mark Conrad | 11 July 2023
Councils and MPs this week expressed dismay at the Home Office’s ‘top-down diktat’ plan to double...
Judge rules on controversial asylum hotel
By Mark Conrad | 03 July 2023
The Home Office must consider alternatives to a controversial asylum hotel in Brighton & Hove's b...
Council to meet to discuss independence from UK
By Mark Conrad | 03 July 2023
Orkney Islands Council will meet this week to discuss potential independence from the UK as it se...
Croydon to ask for further bailout
By Mark Conrad | 30 June 2023
Croydon LBC will seek more financial support from Whitehall amid concerns fresh savings are being...
Pension managers' warning over regulator's plans
By Mark Conrad | 30 June 2023
Two of local government’s biggest pension managers have warned the financial regulator against lo...
Pension schemes 'half way there' on McCloud
By Dan Peters | 30 June 2023
Four out of five council pension schemes have collected more than half the data needed to impleme...
Hancock: Whitehall oversight of care was terrible
By Mark Conrad | 27 June 2023
Whitehall oversight of adult social care before Covid-19 was ‘terrible’ and officials had no unde...
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