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HIGHWAYS
Council threatens legal action over £20m roads funding row
By William Eichler | 13 April 2026
North Yorkshire Council has threatened to take legal action against York and North Yorkshire mayor David Skaith over a dispute about highways maintenance funding.
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026
Sussex leaders are to demand ministers fully explain why they have delayed a final reorganisation...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Government 'not planning' judicial reviews for councils missing food waste rollout
By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026
The Government is not planning on hitting English councils that have failed to roll out separate ...
REORGANISATION
Toil, then trouble on LGR
By Martin Ford | 02 April 2026
The Government has announced its decisions on new unitaries in four of the Devolution Priority Pr...
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
How to reap the diversity dividend
By Simon Fanshawe | 01 April 2026
Diversity policies must drop performative gestures and provide evidence of change to the lives of...
HOUSING
New towns strategy faces critical test of local consent
By John Gregory | 01 April 2026
John Gregory examines how the Government's new towns programme prioritises speed over scale and w...
REORGANISATION
Essex threatens legal action over reorganisation
By Martin Ford | 26 March 2026
Essex CC is looking to mount a legal challenge to the Government's decision to reorganise the cou...
HOUSING
EXCLUSIVE: Rising temporary accommodation bill fuelled by B&B exodus
By Dan Peters | 26 March 2026
The amount of money spent by councils in the capital on the most expensive type of emergency temp...
ASYLUM
Epping Forest ends legal fight over asylum hotel
By Martin Ford | 13 March 2026
Epping Forest DC has admitted defeat in its long-running legal battle over the use of a hotel to ...
FUTURE FORUM
Future Forum: Councils must put 'rules and tools' in place ahead of political change
By Ann McGauran | 12 March 2026
Councils need to put ‘rules and tools ‘ in place if they are expecting a political change ‘or a ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Commissioner threatens legal action after censure
By Neil Merrick | 10 March 2026
A police and crime commissioner (PCC) who attended a protest against asylum seekers moving onto h...
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Lead governance, integrity and legal excellence in Rushcliffe. Apply for this job
Service Director – Adult Social Care
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Service Director – Transformation, Improvement & Quality Assurance
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Reading is changing Apply for this job
- LGA's first chair Lord Beecham dies
- LGR creates major challenges for the corporate services that many have reduced and pared back for years
- Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent
- Council receives first record-keeping watchdog warning
- When councils get desperate, they start being cultural liquidators
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