Chair of the LGA Lord Porter says the smaller unitaries have ‘probably a larger number of council...
We need the sort of detailed analysis carried out by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the County Counci...
Does all the ambition for local government come down to core service and self-sustainability, ask...
The County Councils’ Network (CCN) has released a new report on councils’ finances. Simon Edwards...
Marsham Street appears not to understand the drivers of demand or the pressures local services ar...
Ministers been asked to set out a ‘national default position’ on the distribution of business rat...
We must move away from simply 'planning by numbers' when it comes to housing and instead seek to ...
Ministers are expected to be called on to intervene in the thorny issue of business rates tier sp...
Social care should be delivered locally but funded nationally, a new report has suggested.
The Government’s repeatedly-delayed devolution framework will not be published until after Brexit...
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