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ENVIRONMENT
PAC: New housing continues to be built in high risk areas
17 January 2024
More than half of councils rarely or never inspect a new housing development to check compliance ...
WHITEHALL
Mandarin denies 'silo mentalities' restricting initiatives
By Mark Conrad | 12 December 2023
The director general of levelling up has denied that ‘silo mentalities’ within Whitehall restrict...
FINANCE
National audit reforms must be sustainable
By Cllr George Jabbour | 03 December 2023
Regardless of the reasons leading to the high number of unaudited financial statements across the...
WHITEHALL
MPs in waste clarity call
By Mark Conrad | 01 December 2023
England’s town halls cannot prepare for forthcoming waste reforms – including procurement - until...
WHITEHALL
Supported housing struggles exposed in PAC report
By Andrew Vaux | 10 November 2023
The strained supported housing sector is blighted by fraud, inadequate financial resources and mi...
WHITEHALL
Home Office 'failing to engage' councils
By Martin Ford | 26 October 2023
The Home Office is ‘failing to engage meaningfully with local authorities’ on asylum, according t...
FINANCE
Home to roost
By Meg Hillier | 26 September 2023
The challenges faced by councils in financial crisis stem from Government action since 2010 and m...
WHITEHALL
Government accused of 'paralysing' councils on waste
By Dan Peters | 19 September 2023
The Government has been accused of leaving frustrated councils ‘paralysed’ by ‘painfully slow’ pr...
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
Evidence on the need to re-set the system continues to pile up
By Arianna Giovannini | 04 July 2023
This is the core of the centre’s problem: its lack of understanding of the huge untapped potentia...
WHITEHALL
MPs call for urgent audit action
By Mark Whitehead | 22 June 2023
MPs have called for urgent action over an ‘unacceptably high’ backlog of local government audits.
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