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WHITEHALL

Region refuses to take more asylum seekers

By Dan Peters | 31 March 2021

The West Midlands has refused to take any more asylum seekers unless the Home Office agrees to a ...

BUSINESS RATES

Let's see what happens on longer-term funding

By Lorna Baxter | 31 March 2021

Lorna Baxter gave evidence at the Public Accounts Committee in response to the NAO report on loca...

WHITEHALL

Pandemic forces finance reform rethink

By Martin Ford | 16 March 2021

Whitehall plans for local government finance reform were thrown into doubt this week after civil ...

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE

A testing legacy?

By Ann McGauran | 16 March 2021

The NHS Test and Trace programme is not only hugely expensive, it is also ineffective, says a com...

FINANCE

Councils left seriously underfunded, NAO finds

By Michael Burton | 08 March 2021

Coronavirus has left local authorities seriously underfunded and facing budget cuts unless the Go...

ENVIRONMENT

MPs call for review of local authority flood funding

By Laura Sharman | 26 February 2021

The Government needs a better understanding of whether funding allocated to local authorities to ...

FINANCE

Spelthorne told it must 'understand and manage risk'

By Michael Burton | 01 February 2021

A council that invested almost 40 times its budget in property must ‘understand and manage risk a...

FINANCE

More councils will be forced to issue Section 114 notices, MPs warn

By Dan Peters | 22 January 2021

More councils will ‘soon be unable to balance their books and be forced to issue Section 114 noti...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

The PAC casts a gimlet eye on the ministry

By Michael Burton | 08 December 2020

The phrase ‘glass houses and throwing stones’ comes to mind when Government departments finger wa...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

MPs savage abandoned £192m housing scheme

By Martin Ford | 08 December 2020

A £192m affordable housing programme that failed to deliver any homes has been labelled ‘deplorab...

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Assistant Director Strategy & Community Regeneration

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