Title
IMPROVEMENT
Peer review highlights 'inappropriate behaviour'
By Joe Lepper | 17 June 2025
More than 250 employees of Westminster City Council reported bullying or harassment at work in th...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Councils warned to be 'open to scrutiny' in grooming gangs inquiry
By Martin Ford | 17 June 2025
There has been a ‘collective failure’ to address questions about the ethnicity of perpetrators wh...
POLITICS
Ministers propose cancelling Surrey CC elections again
By Dan Peters | 17 June 2025
Ministers have proposed cancelling Surrey CC elections for a second year as they launched a consu...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Net zero agenda 'stalling' in councils
By Ann McGauran | 17 June 2025
The net zero agenda in local government is ‘stalling’, a campaign group has warned.
PAY
COSLA makes two-year pay offer
By Joe Lepper | 16 June 2025
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) has offered a 4% pay rise for 2025-26 and an...
PEOPLE
Council chiefs feature in King's Birthday Honours List
By Martin Ford | 16 June 2025
Leading figures from the local government sector were among those awarded the most prestigious ti...
POLITICS
Starmer announces grooming gangs statutory inquiry
By Dan Peters | 16 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will launch a statutory inquiry into the grooming ga...
DEVOLUTION
Think-tank calls for Glasgow mayor
By Dan Peters | 16 June 2025
Glasgow is at risk of falling behind England’s major cities unless it receives a devolution deal ...
POLITICS
Hollinrake warning over DOGE request
By Dan Peters | 13 June 2025
Requests for data by Reform UK’s DOGE unit are a ‘cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’, sha...
REORGANISATION
Hertfordshire ditches single unitary proposal
By Paul Marinko | 13 June 2025
Change of leadership at Hertfordshire CC following May’s local elections has led to a single unit...
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