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FINANCE
'Budgetary pressures' force plea to Government
By Emily Twinch | 16 December 2024
Councillors at Labour-led Cheshire East Council have agreed to ask the Government for two more ye...
LOCAL AUDIT
The recovery of local audit: the hard bit is to come
By Mark Stocks | 16 December 2024
Mark Stocks sets out how local assurance needs to be rebuilt to make recovery a reality.
SIGOMA
Fair Funding Review is a golden opportunity to fix finance system
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 16 December 2024
Council tax equalisation – a ‘reset’ in the system - would offset a decade of mismatched funding ...
FINANCE
Sector call for council tax review
By Dan Peters | 13 December 2024
Local government has called for a ‘fundamental review of council tax’ in a long-awaited report.
SCOTLAND
'Record' funding settlement for Scottish councils
By Dan Peters | 13 December 2024
Scottish councils are expected to share a ‘record’ funding settlement of more than £15bn, provisi...
FINANCE
4.3% boost for Welsh councils
By Dan Peters | 12 December 2024
Councils will receive £6.1bn from the Welsh Government to spend on delivering key services, incre...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
CIPFA calls for social care reform
By Martin Ford | 12 December 2024
A call has been made to the Government to end a ‘vicious cycle’ in social care causing pressure t...
POLICY
Government distances itself from controversial Demos report
By Dan Peters | 12 December 2024
Whitehall officials have distanced themselves from a controversial report that proposed stripping...
LONDON COUNCILS
London Councils lobbies for share of GB Energy cash
By Dan Peters | 12 December 2024
London Councils is lobbying for millions of pounds from the Government agency being created to pu...
REORGANISATION
One for all and all for one
By Cllr Martin Tett | 11 December 2024
The path to becoming a unitary authority is beset by many challenges, but five years on, Cllr Ma...
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