Articles by Mark Conrad
'No appetite' for Scottish equal pay unit
By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024
Scottish Government ministers are unlikely to establish a national equal pay unit despite calls f...
UK first as council approves stake in low-carbon firm
By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024
Shropshire Council is to become joint owner of a firm producing low-carbon materials worth an est...
Fresh call for Right to Buy restrictions
By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024
Housing experts today called for fresh restrictions on the controversial Right to Buy policy – in...
Whiteman criticises lack of prevention focus in productivity demands
By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024
Some ministerial productivity demands are ‘populist nonsense’ more likely to appear in election c...
Scots government 'unlikely' to create equal pay body
By Mark Conrad | 19 April 2024
Scottish Government ministers are unlikely to establish a national equal pay unit, despite calls ...
Councils hit with new productivity demands
By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024
Ministers have demanded councils improve their productivity in the same week as the Government qu...
Struggles continue for scandal-hit council contractor
By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024
A council contractor previously at the centre of a residential care abuse scandal has continued t...
Oflog should be handed audit oversight, MPs told
By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024
The Office for Local Government (Oflog) should be handed oversight of England’s broken audit regi...
Betts backs Homes England review
By Mark Conrad | 15 April 2024
Parliament’s housing committee chair has backed calls to remove some responsibilities from Homes ...
Ministers to make more changes to debt rules
By Mark Conrad | 12 April 2024
Ministers are poised to impose immediate further changes to local government debt rules – includi...
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