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ECONOMIC GROWTH
Birmingham has no alternative other than to declare a cost of living crisis
By Cllr Ian Ward | 12 September 2022
As Birmingham City Council declares a cost of living emergency, leader Ian Ward says the Prime Mi...
PLANNING
Simon Clarke's clarity of purpose may be just what is required
By Duncan Flynn | 12 September 2022
Duncan Flynn looks at the scale of the task facing the new secretary of state for levelling up Si...
FINANCE
Truss must put councils on a firm financial footing
By Heather Jameson | 06 September 2022
If the Government wants to measure councils' performance, then bring it on, says Heather Jameson....
WHITEHALL
Guarded welcome for new local government secretary Clarke
By Mark Whitehead | 06 September 2022
The sector has given new local government secretary Simon Clarke a guarded welcome after he was a...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The harvest of our community farm will be a widespread one
By Gill Kneller | 06 September 2022
East Hampshire DC's community farm plan will create an opportunity that brings its corporate stra...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Trading standards - market regulator and champion of fairness
By Cllr Jenny Hannaby | 05 September 2022
Now more than ever, councils’ trading standards service is essential to our economy and the envir...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
East Midlands' great big deal
05 September 2022
It’s a 30-year £1.14bn devolution deal for large parts of the East Midlands. Ben Bradley talks to...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Local government 'over-centralised'
By William Eichler | 02 September 2022
Local government is over-centralised, inefficient and under-resourced, a new report has said.
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
More grant funding, not devolved tax powers, will support levelling up
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 31 August 2022
Sir Stephen Houghton says fiscal devolution is not a ‘levelling up’ silver bullet – and a new ref...
DEVOLUTION
Will devo be put on ice?
By Ann McGauran | 30 August 2022
The new Prime Minister will have a full in-tray. Could the pace of English devolution stall due t...
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