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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Gough: Local government under water
By Emily Twinch | 04 September 2024
‘Big changes’ to tackle the ‘structural problems’ facing local government are needed to help coun...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Tewkesbury votes to change name to North Gloucestershire
By Paul Marinko | 04 September 2024
Tewkesbury BC has voted to change its name to North Gloucestershire BC from December this year.
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
New charter for Oxfordshire councils is a great platform to build on
By Cllr Liz Leffman | 09 August 2024
The Oxfordshire Councils Charter, aimed at improving local democracy, is the first in the country...
COHESION
Rotheram: Mindless violence distracts from delivering justice
By Dan Peters | 31 July 2024
Local government leaders have condemned violent protests that broke out after three girls were ki...
WHITEHALL
McMahon: Existing devolution deals may be improved
By Paul Marinko | 26 July 2024
Local government minister Jim McMahon has said it is down to the Government to make devolution ‘a...
GENERAL ELECTION
Election reflection
By Ian Miller | 08 July 2024
Ian Miller offers his personal reflections on polling day and the count in Wyre Forest, and he ma...
GENERAL ELECTION
Districts look forward to early collaboration with a new government
By Trevor Holden | 03 July 2024
Centrally-conceived policies have a greater chance of success if worked on collaboratively with l...
FINANCE
Sir Keir: We need to review voter ID rules
By Dan Peters | 19 June 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has suggested his party would review the policy of mandatory voter...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Testing times at the elections
By Peter Stanyon | 18 June 2024
This election is a major test of the last two years of electoral change loaded on to a system alr...
FINANCE
A letter to the new PM
By Steve Leach | 11 June 2024
Steve Leach and Colin Copus write to the next Prime Minister with ideas for strengthening local g...
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