DEVOLUTION

'Give DCs freedom to work with other councils'

District councils should be given greater freedoms to collaborate with other authorities, a new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) report has demanded.

By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 July 2017

District councils should be given greater freedoms to collaborate with other authorities, a new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) report has demanded.

The report argued greater freedom would boost devolution and change local government's currently very metropolitan focus.

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