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COMBINED AUTHORITY
Rival plans for Lancashire reorganisation
By Martin Ford | 03 August 2020
Competing bids for the reorganisation of local government in Lancashire have been put forward by ...
FINANCE
Ministers to receive Somerset unitary business case
By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020
A business case for a single Somerset unitary has been sent to communities secretary Robert Jenri...
WHITEHALL
Plan to hand social care to NHS is for 'wrong reasons'
By Heather Jameson | 29 July 2020
Plans to hand social care to the NHS are being mooted for ‘all the wrong reasons,’ local governme...
REORGANISATION
Keeping business locked up during lockdown
By Tony Ellis | 28 July 2020
Tony Ellis describes how the pandemic brought unique challenges to the task of ensuring cyber sec...
WHITEHALL
Williams: I'll accept whatever it takes to get a county unitary
By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020
The leader of Hertfordshire CC has conceded he would accept a directly-elected mayor as the figur...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation will deter potential councillors, report warns
By Dan Peters | 24 July 2020
Local government unitary reorganisation will slash the number of councillors and deter many from ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Enjoy summer as it's not looking good for the rest of the year
By Paul Wheeler | 21 July 2020
The Government seems to have fallen in love with the idea of big unitary councils and elected may...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Let's think carefully about the best scale for delivering public services
By Abdool Kara | 20 July 2020
We have seen a lack of sophisticated thinking by Government about the level at which COVID-19 ini...
WHITEHALL
County unitary plan timing 'poor'
By Dan Peters | 17 July 2020
Hertfordshire’s 10 district and borough leaders have hit out against county council plans for a s...
FINANCE
Somerset unitary plan 'too big'
By Dan Peters | 17 July 2020
South Somerset DC councillors have claimed proposals for a single county unitary are based on ‘fa...
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