Legal

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2024

Ministers are considering whether to tell local authorities to collect residual waste at least ev...

Thurrock lodges High Court claim against APSE councils

By Paul Marinko | 18 November 2024

Debt-ridden Thurrock Council has filed a High Court claim against 23 councils in an escalation of...

LEGAL

Thurrock threat to sue other councils after financial collapse

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2024

Debt-laden Thurrock Council has threatened to sue other councils as it legally goes after the Ass...

COUNCILLORS

EXCLUSIVE: Ministers look to strengthen councillor standards

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.

LEGAL

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 ...

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