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LEGISLATION
EXCLUSIVE: Government 'risks battle' on moving districts' functions without consent
By Ann McGauran | 17 May 2022
Districts will push to change the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to ensure their functions ca...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Centre has 'poor understanding' of what works on local growth, says NAO expert
By Ann McGauran | 16 May 2022
A large proportion of Government spending is ‘not robustly evaluated’ and there is poor understan...
PLANNING
Boring not bad
By Sir Bob Neill | 16 May 2022
Sir Bob Neill says this wasn’t a Queen’s Speech packed with surprises, ‘but if dull means getting...
WHITEHALL
Future Forum: Go hyper-local to avoid 'grim' future
By Paul Marinko | 13 May 2022
The Government needs to provide county deals quickly and councils need to simultaneously ‘go hype...
BUSINESS
Will new Levelling Up Fund round repeat 'beauty contest'?
By Dr Nicola Headlam | 12 May 2022
Dr Nicola Headlam says the Government may have renewed its commitment to empower local leaders bu...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
The Government must go all-in on digital democracy
By Piers Mulroney | 12 May 2022
Piers Mulroney says the Government must heed the warning of the local elections and commit to inc...
WHITEHALL
Future Forum: Government must do more to help those on lowest incomes
By Dan Peters | 12 May 2022
The Government has failed to do enough for those on the lowest incomes, a top economist has told ...
LEGISLATION
Government can abandon or change levelling up missions
12 May 2022
The Government is leaving open the possibility of abandoning or changing the White Paper's levell...
WHITEHALL
Levelling up must go beyond 'big ticket' projects
By Martin Ford | 11 May 2022
Efforts to level up communities must be felt at a local level for the policy to be viewed as a su...
BUSINESS RATES
The first steps towards fixing a damaged system?
By Heather Jameson | 11 May 2022
Local government will still be left to pick up the pieces of the cost of living crisis that the Q...
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- Mayor steps into chief executive row with Reform UK councillors
- Reform pledges to proritise Green councils for immigration detention centres
- Warning over financial risks faced by children's care providers
- Reorganisation: For councils, 'business as usual' matters as we look to the future
- Legal threat over council reorganisation in Hampshire
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