WHITEHALL

LGA backs deprivation in fair funding row

By Dan Peters | 23 January 2019

The Local Government Association (LGA) has broken its silence to back the importance of deprivati...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: No-deal Brexit funding call

By Dan Peters | 23 January 2019

Smith Square has pushed Marsham Street to provide funding for councils to implement their no-deal...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Right to Buy can be the right way ahead

By Heather Jameson | 23 January 2019

In future, Right to Buy can only be the right thing to do if homes are replaced – otherwise it’s ...

WHITEHALL

Monitoring officer review call

By Dan Peters | 22 January 2019

The organisation representing legal and governance council officers is to push for a Government r...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Government defends Right to Buy against call for abolition

By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019

A top Marsham Street official has defended the Government’s Right to Buy policy as ‘good value fo...

FINANCE

Government concern over investments focused on two or three councils

By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019

Marsham Street is ‘worried’ about ‘two or three’ councils’ commercial ventures, civil servants ha...

FINANCE

Whitehall stalled for year prior to Northamptonshire intervention

By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019

The Government waited for more than a year before intervening over Northamptonshire CC’s financia...

FINANCE

Met councils' chair says proposed changes to funding formula 'grossly unfair'

By Ann McGauran | 21 January 2019

The chair of the Special Interest Group of Metropolitan Authorities (SIGOMA)  has written to Jame...

WHITEHALL

Buckinghamshire districts threaten legal action over unitary plan

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2019

Two Buckinghamshire districts have written to the Government warning they could launch legal proc...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils warn Whitehall of Brexit risks

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2019

Councils this week started to formally inform Whitehall about their Brexit risk assessments amid ...

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Chief Digital and Information Officer

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