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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Cross-party backing for European charter
By Dan Peters | 05 February 2021
The European charter of local self-government took a step closer to being incorporated into Scots...
WHITEHALL
Opinion split over election date
By Dan Peters | 02 February 2021
Concerned council chief executives have continued to express safety fears about holding elections...
FINANCE
Scottish Budget 'falls short'
By Dan Peters | 29 January 2021
The Scottish Government’s £11.6bn budget ‘falls short of the fair funding local government requir...
FINANCE
Scottish councils' cost call
By Dan Peters | 27 January 2021
Scottish local authorities have called for the costs of COVID-19 to be met by the Government nort...
FINANCE
Spending watchdog raises concerns over integration joint boards
By Laura Sharman | 26 January 2021
Councils in Scotland are having to prop up integration joint boards (IJBs), the spending watchdog...
FINANCE
LGA pauses tourism levy calls
By Dan Peters | 22 January 2021
The Local Government Association (LGA) has agreed to pause its work gathering an evidence base fo...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Election officers bid for legal protection
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2021
Returning officers have called for protection against lawsuits for running this year’s elections ...
DEVOLUTION
Labour announces 'constitutional commission' on devolution
By Martin Ford | 21 December 2020
Leader Sir Keir Starmer said it will look at transferring more powers from Westminster to local l...
WHITEHALL
Local leaders to race ahead on cutting carbon
By Chris Ames | 14 December 2020
Local leaders representing around a third of England and Scotland’s population have vowed to go ‘...
DEVOLUTION
Cross-party leaders call to halt the break up of the union
By Heather Jameson | 09 December 2020
A cross-party group of council leaders and mayors has written to the Prime Minister calling for a...
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