The Government should be applauded for recognising – at last – that Whitehall does not know best ...
Ian Miller examines the risks and uncertainties for districts in the provisional settlement, and ...
Did the secretary of state Michael Gove signal last week that some functions or powers are going ...
The District Councils’ Network’s clear requests include a year-on-year, real-terms increase in Go...
The offer of a 1.5% pay increase for chief executives is ‘a move away from arrangements that have...
Procurement is likely to involved significant challenges for district councils now and in the yea...
If funding is less than the cost of free garden waste collection, households without gardens will...
Ian Miller ponders the impact of Super Thursday on the mental health of electoral teams, and says...
Ian Miller waxes lyrical on a local government sector transformed into a paradise of five-yearly ...
It is clear from the final local government settlement that the Government did not pay attention ...
