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FINANCE
Calls for fair funding tax flexibility
By Martin Ford | 22 August 2025
The Government has been urged to lift the council tax referendum limit to help local authorities ...
POLICY
Councils bite back at food waste recycling rollout plan
By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 14 August 2025
Councils will not be told how much money they will receive to roll out food waste recycling until...
PLANNING
District plea over planning powers
By Neil Merrick | 13 August 2025
District councils have appealed to ministers not to leave them out of planning decisions once fre...
FINANCE
Shifting the presssure
By Martin Ford | 07 August 2025
With consultation set to close on the fair funding review, Martin Ford looks at the challenges fa...
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
DCN: 'Essential' role of districts in setting up new children's services
By Martin Ford | 23 July 2025
District councils will be ‘essential’ to establishing new children’s services through local gover...
FINANCE
Districts sound fair funding alarm
By Martin Ford | 21 July 2025
The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has joined inner London boroughs in sounding the alarm over ...
SERVICE DELIVERY
Forging the future
By Martin Ford | 25 June 2025
With the sector in crisis and the need for radical change, fundamental questions are being asked ...
REORGANISATION
McMahon: No intention to delay reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 25 June 2025
The Government has ‘no intention to delay at all the local government reorganisation process’, mi...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Scale not key to social care disaggregation
By Martin Ford | 23 June 2025
Adult social care disaggregation should not focus on scale, according to research published today.
REORGANISATION
Facing the future
By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 19 June 2025
The District Councils’ Network (DCN) is to use next month’s Local Government Association (LGA) co...
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