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SOLACE SUMMIT
Pointing towards a brighter partnership
By Matt Prosser | 17 October 2024
As delegates gather in Manchester for the Solace Summit, Matt Prosser says the relationship reset...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Crisis of confidence
By William Eichler | 17 October 2024
The number of council chief and senior managers confident their council is meeting the expectatio...
FINANCE
Auditors for Redditch and Bromsgrove quit
By Emily Twinch | 15 October 2024
Ernst & Young have taken on auditing Redditch BC and Bromsgrove DC's accounts mid-financial year ...
FINANCE
Solace: Underfunding councils 'ultimate false economy'
By William Eichler | 15 October 2024
Failing to ensure councils are properly funded is ‘the ultimate false economy’ because it forces ...
FINANCE
Peering into the black hole
By Michael Burton | 15 October 2024
How might local government fare from the Budget? Michael Burton dips into last week’s Green Budge...
FINANCE
Two council leaders warn of financial collapse
By Martin Ford | 14 October 2024
The leaders of two councils have warned they are close to issuing section 114 notices.
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Council attempts to recover payments to late chief executive
By Martin Ford | 14 October 2024
A council is to launch legal action over payments to a former chief executive, who has since died.
FINANCE
Councils join project to explore preventative spending
By Emily Twinch | 14 October 2024
Four councils have joined a two-year project aimed at coming up with a methodology for calculatin...
WALES
Welsh councils facing £559m budget pressure
By Paul Marinko | 11 October 2024
Welsh councils face budget pressures of around £559m next year, the sector’s umbrella organisatio...
FINANCE
Breaking free from short-term fixes
By By Owen Mapley | 11 October 2024
The sector needs immediate support to 'start planning for an alternative to episodic crisis manag...
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