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Burnham calls for national-local reset

By Dan Peters | 22 October 2020

Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor Andy Burnham has called for a ‘reset’ between national and loca...

Jenrick announces allocations for £1bn council funding

By Dan Peters | 22 October 2020

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed allocations for individual councils from ...

Coronavirus leads to scrapping of three-year Spending Review

By Dan Peters | 21 October 2020

Plans to create a three-year settlement for public spending have been abandoned as latest figures...

Council housing to return to met

By Dan Peters | 20 October 2020

Senior Kirklees MBC councillors have approved plans to transfer the management and maintenance of...

LGA board chair hits out at culture secretary

By Dan Peters | 20 October 2020

The chair of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) culture, tourism and sport board has claime...

EXCLUSIVE: IT frustrates district access to shielded patient list

By Dan Peters | 20 October 2020

An IT shambles frustrated government attempts to share the shielded patient list (SPL) directly w...

Reorganisation battle lines drawn over think-tank report

By Dan Peters | 20 October 2020

The bitter war of words between counties and districts over reorganisation stepped up this week a...

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked report warns sector less ready for Brexit transition

By Dan Peters | 20 October 2020

Local government is less ready for the end of the transition period than it was for a no-deal Bre...

Whiteman criticises 'reckless' council

By Dan Peters | 19 October 2020

A council has been criticised for making the first dive into the swaps market decades after a sca...

Exit cap signed into law

By Dan Peters | 15 October 2020

The £95,000 cap on public sector exit payments was signed into law last night and will come into ...