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Budget: Councils to be impacted by minimum wage and threshold freeze
By Paul Marinko | 26 November 2025
Councils, along with other employers, will be impacted by the chancellor’s decision to increase t...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Council tax surcharge to 'support funding for local government services'
By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025
Revenue from the high value council tax surcharge will be used to ‘support funding for local gove...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Government to fund SEND
By Heather Jameson | 26 November 2025
Government will fully fund Special Educational Needs and Disabilities from 2028-29, cutting one o...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Two-child benefit cap lifted
By Martin Ford | 26 November 2025
Abolition of the two-child benefit cap in today’s Budget has been welcomed as a ‘first step’ in t...
NCASC
NCASC: Hike in working age adults needing support is due to dysfunctional system
By Ann McGauran | 26 November 2025
A forty per cent hike in the number of working age people needing support by 2030 is the ‘predict...
NCASC
NCASC: Councils must be 'equal partner' in neighbourhood working, leader says
By Lee Peart | 26 November 2025
Cllr Dr Wendy Taylor, chair of the Local Government Association (LGA) Health and Wellbeing Commit...
NCASC
NCASC: Risk of spreading children's resources 'too thinly'
By Ann McGauran | 26 November 2025
The lack of a national strategy for children means there is a risk of resources being ‘spread too...
CYBER SECURITY
Major cyber attack hits London councils
By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025
Multiple London councils are believed to have been targeted in a major cyber attack, leaving resi...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Reed U-turn over committee system abolition
By Neil Merrick | 25 November 2025
Local authorities that already use the committee system will be allowed to retain it under strict...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Reed vows to stop those trying to pull country apart
By Dan Peters | 25 November 2025
Communities secretary Steve Reed has vowed to stop ‘people at the extremes of politics who are tr...
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