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FINANCE

Slough approves £600m asset sale

By Paul Marinko | 21 September 2021

Crisis-hit Slough Council has approved plans to flog around £600m worth of assets as it battles t...

WHITEHALL

Leicestershire faces worsening financial crisis

By Paul Marinko | 21 September 2021

Leicestershire CC has said factors such as COVID-19 have left it facing a worsening financial cri...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Hughes hints at multi-year funding settlement

By Paul Marinko | 21 September 2021

Junior minister Eddie Hughes has attempted to reassure councils that a multi-year funding settlem...

WHITEHALL

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...

FINANCE

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...

BUSINESS

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...

HUMAN RESOURCES

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.

FINANCE

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...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

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...

BUSINESS

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...

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