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FINANCE

Clarity will be crucial to reform

By Emmet Regan | 15 January 2024

As 2024 begins, Emmet Regan sets out a framework for any incoming government to consider when map...

FINANCE

40% of councils face 'financial failure'

By Ellie Ames | 15 January 2024

Two in five councils in England could see their reserves drop to less than 5% of their net revenu...

FINANCE

North Northants leader warns of 'robust action' to stem budget crisis

By Andrew Vaux | 12 January 2024

The leader of North Northamptonshire Council has banned all but essential spending in an urgent b...

FINANCE

Somerset in capitalisation request amid 'financial emergency'

By Martin Ford | 10 January 2024

Somerset Council is to seek a capitalisation direction and permission to raise council tax by up ...

FINANCE

Is this the end of innovation?

By Paul Marinko | 10 January 2024

Is there a tendency among council members to play it safe and avoid risks? Norse Group and The MJ...

FINANCE

We need Government to recognise district councils could help them fix the system

By Gill Kneller | 08 January 2024

Hampshire CC's finances are having indirect impacts on East Hampshire DC and its most vulnerable ...

FINANCE

Stormy waters ahead

By Mark Conrad | 08 January 2024

Mark Conrad talks to three major groups of councils about what the provisional finance settlement...

FINANCE

Oflog chair 'aware of the systemic pressures'

By Martin Ford | 05 January 2024

Chair of the Office for Local Government (Oflog), Lord Morse, has said he wants to ‘set the recor...

DEVOLUTION

Lord Morse: I do not blame all council failure on 'bad management' 

By Lord Morse | 05 January 2024

A recent newspaper article portrayed him wrongly as arguing that any council financial failure co...

FINANCE

Nottingham commissioners would 'undermine senior officers'

By Martin Ford | 04 January 2024

Nottingham City Council has urged the Government not to send in commissioners to oversee the runn...

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