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...

FINANCE

Playing an unwinnable hand

By Jon Rouse | 11 September 2024

Jon Rouse looks at how to navigate the perfect storm of managing a unitary authority when the nu...

INEQUALITY

Businesses also have a role in reducing inequality

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 10 September 2024

A new report, the first from the Ruskin Centre for Social Equity, shows there are businesses who ...