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FINANCE
Councils grapple with multi-million pound budget deficits
By Martin Ford | 06 January 2021
Councils are mulling service cuts and council tax rises as they attempt to balance next year's bu...
FINANCE
Urban councils' fears over debt recovery rules
By Martin Ford | 22 December 2020
Urban councils have voiced concern over new rules that could prevent them from recovering council...
FINANCE
Questions over settlement boost
By Martin Ford | 21 December 2020
The scale of the increase in core funding in the local government finance settlement claimed by m...
SOCIAL CARE
Council taxpayers to 'pay more and get less'
By Martin Ford | 03 December 2020
Local authorities have been left in the unenviable position of raising taxes in an effort to bala...
COUNCIL TAX
Tewkesbury puts its customers in control
By Graeme Simpson | 02 December 2020
Graeme Simpson explains why Tewkesbury BC is changing to a new digital platform to transform the...
BUSINESS RATES
A mixed bag for councils
By Bob Neill | 02 December 2020
While Sir Bob Neill says there was much in the Spending Review to applaud, ‘what’s ultimately nee...
BUSINESS RATES
There's not enough votes in funding councils
By Heather Jameson | 02 December 2020
'Whatever the finance settlement brings, it will not be enough', says Heather Jameson. 'Councils ...
SOCIAL CARE
More cash, but not enough
By Heather Jameson | 01 December 2020
With its £5.5bn extra funding for local government next year the Spending Review may have deliver...
COUNCIL TAX
The devolution waiting game
By Ian Miller | 01 December 2020
The Prime Minister has said that ‘devolution…should be used as a step to pass power to local comm...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Councils allowed to delay precept rise
By Dan Peters | 30 November 2020
Local authorities will be allowed to delay big council tax increases next year ahead of elections...
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