Elections

26 April 2024

Improving outcomes for communities is at the heart of successful devolution and metro mayors must...

AUDIT

Local elections: more than just a barometer for Rishi

By Heather Jameson | 23 April 2024

Local elections do swing with national politics, but the full picture is far more nuanced, says H...

WHITEHALL

Blow to council hopes for cash boost

By Michael Burton | 23 April 2024

The prospect of extra cash for councils has faded further with the latest public finance figures ...

WHITEHALL

Whiteman criticises lack of prevention focus in productivity demands

By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024

Some ministerial productivity demands are ‘populist nonsense’ more likely to appear in election c...

What will the next steps be for the mayoral model?

By Zoë Billingham | 22 April 2024

While the offers to communities from mayors are maturing, there remain big questions to be answer...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Devolution needs to be more 'Kevin Keegan'

By Henry Kippin | 22 April 2024

If the UK wants to emerge from its ‘odd decade’ into a better place, it must use devolution to bo...

WHITEHALL

Ministers in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

By Heather Jameson | 16 April 2024

The letter on councils’ productivity, sent by local government minister Simon Hoare this week, bo...

ELECTIONS

4 wheel drive woman on... voting

16 April 2024

Gosh, aren’t elections complicated? I thought you just had to pop up to the polling station and s...

BUSINESS

Oflog should be handed audit oversight, MPs told

By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024

The Office for Local Government (Oflog) should be handed oversight of England’s broken audit regi...

ELECTIONS

Today's choices, tomorrow's impact

By Simon Kaye | 15 April 2024

May’s elections will be extremely consequential for the local government sector, and the impact o...

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