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REORGANISATION
The emperor's new clothes revisited?
By Ian Miller | 23 October 2025
Ian Miller says local authorities’ final reorganisation proposals can ‘wax lyrical on all sorts of things about new councils’, but little of it can be guaranteed to happen
FINANCE
Audit contracts extended by two years
By Dan Peters | 23 October 2025
Public Sector Audit Appointments (PSAA) has extended its current audit contracts by two years fol...
WHITEHALL
National Wealth Fund to transform sector support
By Dan Peters | 21 October 2025
A Treasury body created to boost economic growth through private investment and public funding ha...
FINANCE
Peer warning over Redbridge finances
By Joe Lepper | 21 October 2025
Redbridge LBC will be forced to seek exceptional financial support (EFS), a review has warned.
FINANCE
A new era?
By Sarah Longlands | 21 October 2025
Sarah Longlands explains why the upcoming Budget is not just for November
REORGANISATION
Essex CC leaves 'bitter taste' with 'underhand' reorg move
By Paul Marinko | 20 October 2025
Relations between Essex local authorities have been soured after the county council spent nearly ...
COUNCIL TAX
'Outdated and harmful': Council bailiff use soars 30%
By William Eichler | 20 October 2025
The use of bailiffs by local authorities in England and Wales has surged by 30% in just two years...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Reorganisation financial risk warning
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025
Local government reorganisation has been highlighted as a key concern by the Public Accounts Comm...
PLANNING
PAC: 'Drought of planners' is 'serious problem'
17 October 2025
MPs are ‘unconvinced’ the Government is addressing the ‘lack of staffing capacity and capability ...
WORKFORCE
Kerswell hands in resignation
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Croydon LBC chief executive Katherine Kerswell has handed in her resignation five years after joi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA: Costs pushing many to financial brink
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Emergency government bailout agreements for councils are at risk of becoming ‘normalised’ as cost...
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