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CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY
CIPFA warning over profit capping reforms
By Dan Peters | 23 February 2026
Financial oversight and profit capping reforms to the children’s residential care market may fail...
COMBINED AUTHORITY
Combined authority blocks release of mass transit report
By Dan Peters | 19 February 2026
West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) has refused to release a report by a government body int...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Gittins admits 'technical breach' in consultation over LGA redundancies
By Joe Lepper | 19 February 2026
The Local Government Association (LGA) has extended its restructure consultation into next month ...
FUNDING
Recovery grant rift leaves local government divided
By Martin Ford | 19 February 2026
The Government’s doubling down on the recovery grant for deprived urban authorities in the final ...
ELECTIONS
Calls to indemnify officers after U-turn debacle
By Martin Ford | 19 February 2026
Ministers are facing calls to indemnify returning officers as councils scramble to organise local...
WORKFORCE
Cheshire East a 'floundering ship', claims opposition
By Martin Ford | 19 February 2026
Cheshire East Council has been described as a ‘floundering ship’ as it grapples with a financial ...
OUTSOURCING
City of London paid £10,000 to Mandelson firm Global Counsel
By Martin Ford | 19 February 2026
The City of London Corporation spent a five-figure sum last year with Global Counsel, the company...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Think-tank in reorganisation democracy warning
By Joe Lepper | 19 February 2026
Action is needed to preserve local democracy amid local government reorganisation and devolution,...
REORGANISATION
Basildon joins Norfolk in going cold on LGR
By Paul Marinko | 19 February 2026
Another council has called time on local government reorganisation (LGR) over Labour’s U-turn on ...
PEOPLE
Lancashire CC appoints finance director
By Martin Ford | 18 February 2026
Gary Fielding is to join Lancashire CC as corporate director of finance
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