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WELFARE
Chancellor needs to show compassion to most vulnerable
By Cllr Elizabeth Campbell | 05 March 2024
Tomorrow’s Budget provides an opportunity for the chancellor to protect those most in need of fin...
FINANCE
Council funding crisis 'existential'
By Martin Ford | 01 March 2024
Local government’s funding crisis threatens to derail ambitions to level up the north of England,...
WHITEHALL
CIPFA pleads for Oflog costs to be kept down
By Dan Peters | 01 March 2024
It is ‘unrealistic’ to think the Office for Local Government (Oflog) will not pile fresh resource...
WHITEHALL
Lending rates could spike after audit reset, LGA warns
By Dan Peters | 01 March 2024
Proposals to reset the local audit system and clear the backlog of accounts could drive up the le...
FINANCE
Rayner to go 'further and faster' on devolution
By Martin Ford | 01 March 2024
Shadow local government secretary Angela Rayner has promised to go ‘further and faster’ on devolu...
WHITEHALL
Government 'recognises' increased temporary accommodation demand
By Dan Peters | 29 February 2024
The Government has said it recognises the challenges local authorities face in responding to the ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Corridors of power
27 February 2024
The chancellor’s Budget Speech this year has been written using AI which was asked to ‘write a Bu...
WHITEHALL
Home Office 'chaos' leaves thousands of illegal arrivals in 'perma-backlog'
By Mark Conrad | 27 February 2024
The Government’s struggling asylum policy has heaped significant demand on cities’ housing servic...
LEGISLATION
The peer challenge
By Michael Burton | 27 February 2024
A reformed House of Lords must imply a new role in Parliament for local government leaders, says ...
WHITEHALL
Fresh wave of devolution could reduce regional inequalities, says report
By Martin Ford | 27 February 2024
An overhaul of the local government system and a fresh wave of devolution have been put forward a...
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