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FINANCE
Can we have both levelling up and devo?
By Heather Jameson | 10 November 2021
Levelling up local government finance needs a more centralised system of funding, says Heather Ja...
PAY
We need a long term and strategic approach to funding
By Claire Kober | 09 November 2021
The Spending Review 'underlines the desperate need for Government to view local government as a c...
COUNCIL TAX
Local government must be at the heart of proposals for levelling up
By Simon Edwards | 09 November 2021
The CCN, along with the Local Government Association and others, worked tirelessly to make the ca...
FINANCE
Doubt over future of 75% rates retention under Gove
By Paul Marinko | 09 November 2021
New local government secretary Michael Gove has indicated that 75% business rates retention could...
SOCIAL CARE
It looks likely that councils will continue to live on the thin gruel
By Ben Page | 02 November 2021
Councils are expected to be allowed to increase bills by 2.8% per year, says Ben Page. 'The bad n...
COUNCIL TAX
There are more questions now than before the Budget
By Adele Taylor | 02 November 2021
The more challenging aspect of the Budget's announcements is the vacuum of definitive information...
COUNCIL TAX
Council to review two tax errors within a week
By Martin Ford | 29 October 2021
North Northamptonshire sent out hundreds of court summonses for non-payment in error and withdrew...
WHITEHALL
Budget 2021: Council tax cut will leave councils struggling, says IFS
29 October 2021
The Government’s move to lower the threshold of council tax increases before a referendum is ‘sur...
SOCIAL CARE
A mixed fiscal bag for councils
By Heather Jameson | 28 October 2021
Isn't it ironic that a chancellor devoted to low taxes has funded a bonanza Budget through taxes ...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Care plan fails to address councils' concerns, MPs told
By Martin Ford | 26 October 2021
MPs have been told the Government’s blueprint for social care will not solve councils’ funding cr...
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