POLICY AND POLITICS

Reviving councils' dormant powers

By David Williams | 12 September 2024

David Williams looks at how councils’ positive Victorian legacy has been curbed and sets out a ma...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Public and private investment must both be in the chancellor's red box

By By Mo Baines | 12 September 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves won't have any more success with growth than her predecessors if she fai...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Starmer will now need to face down housing activists

By By Ben Page | 12 September 2024

Labour is going to have to upset the same voters that it bent over backwards to reassure in the r...

Finance chiefs need a long-term view at the mid-year point

By By Adele Taylor | 12 September 2024

Even without a new Government, this time of year when councils are modelling what budgets and med...

FINANCE

Districts need long-term funding certainty

By By Ian Miller | 12 September 2024

The District Councils' Network sent off its submission to the Treasury about the Budget this week...

FINANCE

Mission: possible

By Jon Rowney | 12 September 2024

Jon Rowney says the next Comprehensive Spending Review will be one of the few opportunities that ...

PREVENTION

The power of prevention

By Ben Franklin | 12 September 2024

Ben Franklin makes the case for putting communities at the heart of the new preventative state

PLACE-MAKING

Getting to the heart of the matter

By Jonathan Werran | 12 September 2024

Jonathan Werran introduces Localis’ latest report, which sets out ‘a roadmap for a transformative...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Could merging schemes impede growth?

By Henri Murison | 12 September 2024

The best of the local government pensions sector is already hard at work investing in the North’s...

FINANCE

Who is battling for local government in the Treasury?

By Heather Jameson | 11 September 2024

Local government now has talented allies in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Govern...