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Paul Marinko

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Government brushes off reorganisation challenge

By Paul Marinko | 20 September 2021

The Government is believed to have brushed off a legal challenge from Cumbria CC to reorganisatio...

IPPR calls for new 'proportional' property charge to replace council tax

By Paul Marinko | 20 September 2021

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for a new ‘proportional’ property tax t...

Row over extra social care funding

By Paul Marinko | 20 September 2021

The Welsh Local Government Association has hit out at the ‘insulting and unsubstantiated comments...

Belfast chief takes on Jersey role

By Paul Marinko | 20 September 2021

Belfast City Council’s chief executive is set to become Jersey’s new top civil servant.

Hartlepool call for fairer funding

By Paul Marinko | 11 August 2021

A cross-party demand for fairer council tax and local government funding has been sent to Secreta...

Cumbria launches legal battle against reorganisation

By Paul Marinko | 10 August 2021

Cumbria CC has launched a legal challenge to the Government’s plans to create two unitary authori...

Essex draws on reserves to fund legal dispute

By Paul Marinko | 10 August 2021

Essex CC is drawing down £13m of reserves to fund an ongoing legal dispute over a failed waste sc...

Cash-strapped council dumps LOBO loan

By Paul Marinko | 09 August 2021

Cash-strapped Liverpool City Council is to swap £65m of loans for £107m of debt in order to cut i...

Council exit payments halved

By Paul Marinko | 04 August 2021

The Government has revealed exit payments by English councils have more than halved in the last s...

Council drive to tackle staff shortages

By Paul Marinko | 03 August 2021

Dacorum BC has started retraining workers to drive waste lorry in a bid to tackle a national shor...