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POLICY AND POLITICS
MPs scold Home Office over lack of council involvement in asylum
By Dan Peters | 05 June 2026
Local authorities still lack a ‘meaningful say’ in asylum accommodation decisions, a cross-party ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Councils question financial sustainability and timescales of SEND reforms
By Joe Lepper | 05 June 2026
Councils have raised a raft of concerns around the Government’s plans to overhaul the special edu...
FISCAL DEVOLUTION
Government's fiscal devolution roadmap sparks fears over Treasury control
By By Martin Ford | 04 June 2026
Experts have sounded a warning over government plans to detail a ‘roadmap’ for fiscal devolution.
DEVOLUTION
Building trust, capacity and accountability in England's strategic authorities
By Sandy Forsyth | 04 June 2026
To address the complexities in the evolution of strategic authorities, devolution needs to work b...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Return of the Extended Ministerial Office?
By David Godfrey | 03 June 2026
Amidst the current calls for civil service reform, David Godfrey asks if Extended Ministerial Off...
AI
Watchdog to publish AI procurement guidance for councils
By Joe Lepper | 02 June 2026
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is set to publish guidance to support councils and ot...
FINANCE
Fiscal Devolution in England: Breaking Treasury Myths
By Jack Shaw | 01 June 2026
England’s highly centralised financial model has prompted calls to break up or restructure the Tr...
SOLACE
Local politicians should not mistake professional challenge for obstruction
By Graeme McDonald | 28 May 2026
Graeme McDonald says council officers should give honest, sometimes uncomfortable, professional a...
MHCLG
MHCLG praises council capability on housing
By Joe Lepper | 22 May 2026
A senior Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) official has praised the i...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Social workers in safeguarding warning
By Joe Lepper | 22 May 2026
Home Office plans to overrule councils’ decisions on the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking chil...
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