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FINANCE
A new era?
By Sarah Longlands | 21 October 2025
Sarah Longlands explains why the upcoming Budget is not just for November
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
DCN: Deprivation key determinant for spending
By Neil Merrick | 20 October 2025
Unitaries with a population more than 350,000 tend to spend more per resident on services but are...
FINANCE
Council pension funds pile pressure on firms over climate
By Neil Merrick | 20 October 2025
Big firms have been put under renewed pressure by the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Reorganisation financial risk warning
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025
Local government reorganisation has been highlighted as a key concern by the Public Accounts Comm...
INVESTMENT
SOLACE: Investment key to financial resilience
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025
The case was made for achieving financial resilience through investment and regeneration at the S...
WORKFORCE
Kerswell hands in resignation
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Croydon LBC chief executive Katherine Kerswell has handed in her resignation five years after joi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA: Costs pushing many to financial brink
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Emergency government bailout agreements for councils are at risk of becoming ‘normalised’ as cost...
FINANCE
Predictions of low take up for retention pooling scheme
By Joe Lepper | 16 October 2025
Take up of a government invitation to councils to join the business rates retention pooling schem...
INTERVENTION
Bringing Birmingham back from the brink
16 October 2025
Rishi Shori sets out Birmingham City Council’s history of intervention and the three ingredients ...
FINANCE
Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets
By Ann McGauran | 16 October 2025
The impact of reorganisation and the fair funding review will ‘throw all the cards up in the air’...
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- Suffolk districts call for minister to intervene over county's reorganisation tactics
- Reeves urged to raise higher council tax bands
- Reed: Reorganisation will contribute to 'fair' pay
- Government urged to stop reorganisation or face 'massive car crash'
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