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Medway talks with ministry over finances
FINANCE

Medway talks with ministry over finances

By Dan Peters | 29 September 2026

Senior Medway Council officers are in ‘ongoing discussions’ with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) over further exceptional financial support (EFS), it has emerged.

TRANSFORMATION

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POLICY AND POLITICS

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Senior officers and commissioners at Birmingham City Council should be held to account for their ...

FINANCE

Council faces 'inevitable' bankruptcy without £40m savings

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Westmorland and Furness Council could be forced to declare effective bankruptcy if it fails to fi...

FINANCE

Counting the cost of rectifying exceptional financial support to councils

By David Blackman | 19 March 2026

The scale of the problems exceptional financial support is intended to tackle highlights the need...

FINANCE

Local government leaders must connect the council financial crisis to lived experience

By Ben Page | 10 March 2026

The Government's partial write-off of SEND deficits is welcome, but it does not fix underlying pr...

FINANCE

City council requests £15m exceptional financial support

By Dan Peters | 06 February 2026

Brighton & Hove City Council has requested £15m of exceptional financial support (EFS) from the M...

POLICY AND POLITICS

'High probability' section 114 warning for Starmer

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2026

North Somerset Council’s leader has warned Prime Minister Keir Starmer there is a ‘high probabili...

WALES

Welsh settlement 'does not come close' to matching pressures

By William Eichler | 25 November 2025

Local authority leaders across Wales have warned the provisional 2026-27 local government settlem...

FINANCE

Shropshire budget gap hits £47m

By Martin Ford | 18 November 2025

Shropshire Council’s budget overspend has grown by a third since it declared a ‘financial emergen...

S114

West and North Northamptonshire deserve equivalent debt forgiveness to Surrey

By Cllr Mark Arnull | 06 November 2025

Cllr Mark Arnull explains why the Government must extend equivalent debt forgiveness to West and ...

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