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FINANCE
On funding, let's not lose sight of the smaller stuff
By By Nicole Wood | 17 October 2024
There are many straightforward changes the Government could make to give councils more freedom to...
FINANCE
Breaking free from short-term fixes
By By Owen Mapley | 11 October 2024
The sector needs immediate support to 'start planning for an alternative to episodic crisis manag...
FINANCE
The big calculation conundrum
By David Phillips | 10 October 2024
With the Budget in sight, David Phillips says that even if chancellor Rachel Reeves manages to av...
FINANCE
Whiteman backs independent funding body call
By Dan Peters | 09 October 2024
A former Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy chief has backed a call for alloca...
FINANCE
Districts need long-term funding certainty
By By Ian Miller | 12 September 2024
The District Councils' Network sent off its submission to the Treasury about the Budget this week...
FINANCE
Abolish grant support for five local authorities to raise £600m, think-tank suggests
By Dan Peters | 19 August 2024
The Government should ‘reduce or eliminate all support’ for a number of local authorities where c...
FINANCE
How to fix local government finance
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 05 August 2024
Existing funding needs to be distributed more fairly, and stability must be returned to the syste...
FINANCE
Government urged to devolve council tax powers
By Emily Twinch | 31 July 2024
The Government should devolve the power to fix council tax rates to local authorities, a think-ta...
FINANCE
Time for a frank debate on funding
By Heather Jameson | 23 July 2024
Heather Jameson talks to the new chief of CIPFA Owen Mapley about having hard things to say to t...
LGA
Matching up to a new Government
By Paul Marinko | 16 July 2024
New LGA chair Louise Gittins tells Paul Marinko how she plans to pick up the pace to net the sect...
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