ECONOMIC GROWTH

Districts call to work with counties on devolution

By Martin Ford | 22 March 2022

Districts have issued a call to work alongside counties in devolution.

FINANCE

Southern comfort

By Jonathan Werran | 22 March 2022

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran outlines a new report setting a possible future course fo...

FINANCE

South East needs 'unified' approach to create a devolution framework

By Jonathan Werran | 22 March 2022

Government must rethink the assumption that directing investment away from an ‘overheated’ South ...

DEVOLUTION

Helping the mayoral medicine go down

By Sheila Oxtoby | 15 March 2022

There is a willingness to enter into negotiations on a county deal in good faith, but there seems...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Four strengths of LEPs

By Mark Bretton | 15 March 2022

Mark Bretton asks how we can marry up the Levelling Up White Paper’s ‘warm words’ about local ent...

DEVOLUTION

On the level?

By Martin Ford | 15 March 2022

Has the Levelling Up White Paper failed to create the shared ambition across tiers of local gover...

HEALTH

HMJ: Shared outcomes for children in ICSs

By Steve Barwick | 15 March 2022

Phil Hope, former minister of state for care services and Health Devolution Commissioner, and Ste...

DEVOLUTION

Sector must 'step up' the case for devolution

By Martin Ford | 15 March 2022

Liverpool’s metro mayor has urged councils offered devolution deals to ‘snap the Government’s han...

DEVOLUTION

Talks held on East Midlands combined authority

By Martin Ford | 15 March 2022

Proposals for an East Midlands combined authority covering Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire could b...

DEVOLUTION

Minister rules out 'abandoning' devolution framework

By Martin Ford | 11 March 2022

A minister has poured cold water on any hopes harboured by councils for far-reaching devolution w...