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REORGANISATION
Under pressure small unitaries push back over reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2025
Smaller unitaries were this week pushing back against the Government’s reorganisation drive, insi...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
A new way forward for UK councils on the climate emergency
By Miles Ashton | 06 February 2025
Within the context of increasing pressure on PWLB funding, councils need mechanisms like Local Cl...
INNOVATION
Innovation: the key
By Abdool Kara | 05 February 2025
Local government is feeling the squeeze. To transform services, it must unlock innovation, writes...
FINANCE
Struggling to be glass half full
By Adele Taylor | 05 February 2025
Watching budget proposals for the next year and medium-term, Adele Taylor says that even she is s...
PLACE-MAKING
Rediscovering the purpose of economic strategy
By Sarah Longlands | 05 February 2025
Being able to identify and focus in on the key objective – the ‘why’ – of economic policy is unde...
FINANCE
Is this really handing local leaders power over their finances?
By Heather Jameson | 05 February 2025
There was no sense of irony in the finance settlement when the Ministry of Housing, Communities a...
FINANCE
National Insurance compensation allocations 'sensible'
By Dan Peters | 04 February 2025
The Government’s approach to distributing compensation to councils for higher National Insurance ...
FINANCE
Concern over new audit body
By Martin Ford | 03 February 2025
Ministers have been warned against overreach with the creation of the Local Audit Office (LAO).
IMPROVEMENT
Peer warning over councillor financial understanding
By Emily Twinch | 03 February 2025
Not all 39 councillors at a Nottinghamshire council are fully getting to grips with the financial...
FINANCE
Tax hikes agreed for just six councils
By Heather Jameson | 03 February 2025
Councils facing financial woes have been told to scale back council tax rises, just weeks before ...
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