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POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Standards shake-up
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Government privately reaffirms commitment to legislative reforms to standards originally proposed under Starmer regime.
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Labour-led Brent and Barking and Dagenham miss out on first round of London homes cash
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Labour-led Brent and Barking & Dagenham LBCs are understood to have failed to get anything from t...
HOUSING
Peers call for clarity on new towns
By Martin Ford | 15 October 2026
The Government has been urged to commit or ‘give up on’ its pledge to build the next generation o...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
By Dan Peters | 14 October 2026
Council chief executives have warned Whitehall that local authorities must be treated as equal pa...
LGA
LGA forges 'strategic partnership' with No10 North
By Martin Ford | 13 October 2026
The Local Government Association (LGA) is in talks with No10 North on developing a ‘strategic par...
POLICY AND POLITICS
'A denial of democracy'
By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026
Commissioner-led intervention is ‘problematic’ and a ‘denial of local democracy’, the chief execu...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Work on Whitehall tensions tool slows under Burnham
By Dan Peters | 07 October 2026
Work on a Whitehall tool to track community tensions has slowed since the change of Prime Ministe...
POLICY AND POLITICS
IFS warning over fiscal devolution
By Joe Lepper | 05 October 2026
The Government’s regional fiscal devolution agenda threatens to be blighted by regional imbalance...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Survey reveals audit still struggling
By Joe Lepper | 05 October 2026
Joe Lepper reports on Public Sector Audit Appointments’ latest council finance leaders survey.
POLICY AND POLITICS
County council considers legal action over reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 05 October 2026
Lancashire CC could pursue legal action to stop the Government’s plans to overhaul local governme...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Reorganisation door open for 2028
By Ann McGauran | 01 October 2026
Some two-tier areas could still be encouraged to stick to the original reorganisation timetable d...
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