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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
A year to remember...
By Martin Ford | 17 December 2025
A devolution priority programme combined with a wider council reorganisation that could be seen from space; Reform UK limbering up to terrify a Labour Government that was still adjusting the office...
FINANCE
Council tax prison call
By Dan Peters | 11 December 2025
England should follow Scotland and Wales in scrapping the sanction of imprisonment for non-paymen...
COUNCIL TAX
Tackling the debt tightrope
By Emily Whitford | 11 December 2025
Council tax arrears have continued to rise, says Emily Whitford. She argues that it’s time for a ...
FINANCE
Don't let lack of cash fail Total Place 2.0
By Heather Jameson | 04 December 2025
Reeves was never going to magic up a solution to public sector funding woes in the Budget, 'but t...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Go North!
By Zoe Billingham | 04 December 2025
This Budget makes one thing clear: the Government is throwing its weight behind the North. Zoë Bi...
BUDGET 2025
Responsibility without autonomy
By Jonathan Carr-West | 02 December 2025
Despite the Government’s promises of devolution, the Budget treated councils as mere delivery age...
BUDGET 2025
The Budget: A step towards fiscal devo
By Heather Jameson | 02 December 2025
The Budget took its first steps towards local government finance reform and Total Place 2.0, but ...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Key Cities seek funding that reflects real pressures
By Cllr John Merry | 01 December 2025
Support for regional growth is welcome, but more must be done to address real pressures facing lo...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Council tax, levies and local accountability
By Iain Murray | 01 December 2025
The Budget announcements on the ‘mansion tax’, the visitor levy and SEND suggested a system stuck...
BUDGET 2025
Rachel Reeves: The Queen of fiscal drag
By Mike Emmerich | 28 November 2025
The chancellor may have done respectably on putting the public finances on a more secure long-ter...
SIGOMA
The Recovery Grant: a vital tool to rebuild local communities
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 28 November 2025
Overall, the Government’s local government finance reforms appear to be a positive step forward o...
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