WHITEHALL

Fresh league table fears

By Dan Peters | 16 June 2020

The prospect of council performance being ranked in a league table has been raised again this week.

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

New review to look at regulation of political finance

By Lord Jonathan Evans | 08 June 2020

The Committee on Standards in Public Life is reviewing electoral regulation and wishes to hear fr...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Government should create unitary system, think-tank urges

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

The Government should create a unitary system of local government based on functional economic ar...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Changes to governance structures are needed in a time of pandemic

By Helen McGrath | 31 March 2020

Decision making is a pressing concern facing local government lawyers due to the evolving pandemi...

FINANCE

Make councils account for extreme investments

By Heather Jameson | 19 March 2020

Local government needs a new way to hold councils to account when they are making ‘extreme’ inves...

COUNCILLORS

Who watches the watchers?

By Donald Graham | 18 March 2020

Donald Graham reviews the recent history of local government standards and concludes two-tier and...

WHITEHALL

MHCLG to step up direct engagement with councils

By Dan Peters | 16 March 2020

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is to step up its direct engage...

FINANCE

IfG: Extend outsourcing reforms to councils

By Michael Burton | 04 March 2020

Government reforms of outsourcing to avoid another Carillion collapse must be extended to local g...

LEGAL

Ensuring a commercial hit

By Heather Jameson | 12 February 2020

Heather Jameson examines the findings of a round table featuring local government lawyers hosted ...

FINANCE

CIPFA proposals to 'revolutionise financial reporting'

By Paul Marinko | 09 October 2019

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has floated the idea of scaling...

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