Articles by Mark Conrad
Autumn Statement: Hunt confirms council tax rises of 5%
By Mark Conrad | 17 November 2022
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced a likely 5% hike in council tax, as well as swingeing public...
Rural services 'may be lost' without funding formula
By Mark Conrad | 16 November 2022
Ministers should implement the 2013-14 funding formula which promised to improve rural finances b...
Council's biggest creditor poised to enter adminstration
By Mark Conrad | 16 November 2022
The solar energy firm at the centre of a financial storm at Thurrock Council has entered administ...
Calls for UKSPF funding flexibility
By Martin Ford and Mark Conrad | 16 November 2022
Local government has asked Whitehall to reprofile cash from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)...
More than half of councils planning warm spaces
By Mark Conrad | 15 November 2022
More than half of councils are planning warm spaces where people can shelter from the cold this w...
District to examine case for borrowing
By Mark Conrad | 14 November 2022
Breckland DC will supply enhanced financial reports to its executive and membership to assess whe...
The cost of protecting our children
By Mark Conrad | 08 November 2022
If the Government adopts all the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abu...
Ministers expected to stick with referendum threshold
By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022
Whitehall officials are not expecting returning local government secretary Michael Gove to make c...
EXCLUSIVE: Cost of reforms is 'elephant in the room'
By Mark Conrad | 07 November 2022
A failure to estimate the cost of proposed reforms suggested by the National Inquiry into Child S...
Think-tank urges litter and fly-tipping crackdown
By Mark Conrad | 07 November 2022
Councils should be required to use outsourced firms if they fail to enforce litter and fly-tippin...
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