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Regeneration: Unpicking the new mayoral fund
REGENERATION

Regeneration: Unpicking the new mayoral fund

By David Blackman | 16 December 2025

The Budget may not have pulled any rabbits out of the hat for growth and regeneration, but there were details on how the Mayoral Revolving Growth Fund will work, says David Blackman.

FINANCE

Locality arrangements must be right to avoid remoteness between new unitaries and residents

By Kathy O'Leary | 16 December 2025

The recent removal of ‘remoteness’ as a factor in determining council funding through the Fair Fu...

OUTSOURCING

Reform dismisses surge in council contract values

By Martin Ford | 16 December 2025

Reform UK has dismissed an analysis showing the value of contracts signed by councils it controls...

PAY

Pay hike plans cause rift at Reform-led council

By Martin Ford | 16 December 2025

Proposals to make golden handcuffs payments to staff have caused a rift among the Reform UK admin...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Local government outcomes framework to be expanded

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 11 December 2025

Whitehall plan to broaden outcomes framework revealed.

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...

HOMELESSNESS

£3.5bn investment to 'end homelessness for good'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025

A cross-government plan to ‘end homelessness for good’ by preventing it before it occurs has been...

POLICY AND POLITICS

MHCLG blow as councils' housebuilding expansion comes to a halt

By By Neil Merrick | 10 December 2025

A surge in housebuilding by councils is expected to grind to a halt – threatening the Government’...

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Ministers threatened with food waste refusal

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025

Council leaders have warned ministers some local authorities will refuse to collect food waste.

POLICY AND POLITICS

Councils' concerns over access to holiday schemes

By Joe Lepper | 09 December 2025

Councils are concerned that the most vulnerable families are missing out on benefits of their hol...

FINANCE

Prevention, people and the future of public services in Wales

By Joanne Pitt | 05 December 2025

The idea of prevention being both necessary and achievable became a thread that ran through the ...

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