Legal

By Dan Peters | 24 October 2024

The new Government is considering options to strengthen the standards and conduct for those in lo...

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.

Sector legal expert dies

By Heather Jameson | 07 October 2024

Highly respected local government legal expert and Tower Hamlets LBC Best Value inspector Suki Bi...

INTERVENTION

Tower Hamlets begins inspection fightback

By EXCLUSIVE by Heather Jameson | 26 September 2024

Best Value inspectors sent into Tower Hamlets LBC have been personally threatened with legal acti...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Former chief given two-year driving ban

By Dan Peters | 17 September 2024

A former Lambeth LBC boss has been banned from driving for two years after admitting failing to s...

WHITEHALL

No clarity on productivity plans update requirement

By Dan Peters | 10 September 2024

Uncertainty reigns over whether councils are still required to publish updates on their productiv...

POLITICS

Council information call ahead of early prisoner release

By Dan Peters | 05 September 2024

Councils have called for more information as the Government prepares to ‘temporarily’ reduce the ...

PLANNING

Inspectorate looks to scale back diversity publishing

By Dan Peters | 05 September 2024

The Planning Inspectorate has begun a consultation on a proposal to stop publishing annual staff ...

IMPROVEMENT

EXCLUSIVE: More than one in three have not published corporate or finance peer challenge in last five years

By Dan Peters | 29 August 2024

The new Government this week came under pressure to take a stronger line on councils that put off...

PLANNING

Row over collapse of legal action

By Martin Ford | 22 August 2024

Proposed legal action over the Government granting planning permission for a large-scale solar fa...

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