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SOLACE
Elections show the organisation at its 'one council' best
By Kathy O’Leary | 26 March 2024
Kathy O' Leary says: 'As both pollsters and returning officers would agree, success in elections ...
FINANCE
Wanted: fiscal reform not fiscal frustration
By Heather Jameson | 20 March 2024
'To bemoan any Government’s inability to take difficult political decisions when it has been in p...
WHITEHALL
Online sales tax not priority for London
By Dan Peters | 15 March 2024
London Councils has decided it will not prioritise an online sales tax (OST) as part of its lobby...
WHITEHALL
Structures should be 'rationalised,' Hoare tells DCN
By Heather Jameson | 14 March 2024
Council funding should have been reformed by now and structures need to be ‘rationalised’ the loc...
WHITEHALL
Government 'recognises' increased temporary accommodation demand
By Dan Peters | 29 February 2024
The Government has said it recognises the challenges local authorities face in responding to the ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The threat from bank and building society closures
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 27 February 2024
More than half of all bank and building society branches have closed since 2015 – nearly 6,000 in...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
14 years on: The 'winners' and 'losers'
By Maks Wieczorski | 27 February 2024
New data shows how £13.9bn of cumulative cuts in local authority funding in the 14 years since 20...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Working with Government can deliver real dividends
By Cllr Kevin Bentley | 15 February 2024
Collaboration with Government can achieve real results for communities and councils should not be...
FINANCE
Call for Hunt to lift benefit subsidy cap
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2024
Councils have called for the cap on housing benefit subsidy that councils receive to be unfrozen ...
ENVIRONMENT
Why flood levy's no longer affordable
By Cllr Paul Redgate | 31 January 2024
As places reel from the impact of recent floods, Cllr Paul Redgate says the Government must deliv...
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Merton is an Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ authority—yet it is our ambition, our humility, and our drive to keep learning that truly define us. Apply for this job
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