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HEALTH

Hail our local heroes

By Baroness Sharon Taylor OBE | 25 March 2024

Councils have proven their mettle – now give them the trust and respect they deserve, writes Baro...

COUNCIL TAX

Scottish councils in tax U-turn

By Martin Ford | 25 March 2024

Argyll and Bute and Inverclyde councils had both voted to raise tax in defiance of the Scottish G...

PODCASTS

The road to financial recovery with Cllr John Cotton

25 March 2024

In this special episode of Our World is Local podcast, Nick Kilby and Heather Jameson travelled t...

HOUSING

Supporting communities together

By Felicity Hunt | 25 March 2024

Genuine collaboration between housing associations and councils can help them meet their combined...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Complex funding stymies net-zero push

By Mark Conrad | 25 March 2024

A ‘complex web’ of hard-to-reach Whitehall funding pots is hampering councils’ net-zero initiativ...

Reimagining council operations: Hunt vs. Logic

By Claire Agutter | 25 March 2024

Claire Agutter says councils can navigate financial challenges by adopting robust strategic plann...

WHITEHALL

'Grave concerns' over phone switchover

By Dan Peters | 22 March 2024

UK mayors have expressed ‘grave concerns’ about the impact on vulnerable people of the planned ph...

FINANCE

Future Forum: Resource warning over assurance demands

By Martin Ford | 21 March 2024

The Local Government Association (LGA) warned the Government that ‘assurance takes resource’ at T...

BUSINESS RATES

Reflections on the West Midlands trailblazer devo deal one year on

By Ed Cox | 20 March 2024

Ed Cox sets out his five takeaways from the first year of the West Midlands trailblazer devolutio...