REORGANISATION

DCN bids to attract unitaries with new offer

By Dan Peters | 01 March 2021

The District Councils’ Network (DCN) will create a new category of membership in a bid to keep ne...

PUBLIC HEALTH

It's time to focus virus 'contain' funding on families and streets

By Cllr John Fuller OBE | 01 March 2021

We need to recalibrate and resource the Contain Outbreak Management Fund activity on preparing fo...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

The problem with polls

By Martin Ford | 17 February 2021

Local government has finally learned that two years’ worth of elections will take place on ‘Super...

BUSINESS RATES

Local government settlement shows Government is not in listening mode

By Ian Miller | 09 February 2021

It is clear from the final local government settlement that the Government did not pay attention ...

WHITEHALL

DCN bid for place on chief executives' network rejected

By Dan Peters | 09 February 2021

Senior Whitehall officials have knocked back a District Councils’ Network (DCN) bid to win a plac...

DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

Making the wrong grade

03 February 2021

Talking of Lord Porter, Diary expects the lockdown has created its fair share of unusual haircuts...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Cementing growth plans in The Bay

By Lawrence Conway | 02 February 2021

Whatever your thoughts may be on local government reorganisation it has brought together the thre...

WHITEHALL

Councils submit latest financial data

By Dan Peters | 01 February 2021

Councils have submitted their ninth data return on the pandemic-related pressures facing their fi...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

EXCLUSIVE: DCN attempts to use tiers frustration to boost reorganisation case

By Dan Peters | 19 January 2021

The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has attempted to boost its local government reorganisation a...

FINANCE

Give districts full freedoms on precepts

18 January 2021

Why not remove precepts entirely for all local authorities and leave increases to be determined a...

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