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Hand health powers to elected mayors, says report

By Dan Peters | 23 June 2020

Health powers should be handed to elected mayors as part of a ‘rejuvenated and fortified wave of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh demand for modelling data

By Dan Peters | 22 June 2020

Ministers this week came under renewed pressure to share the Government’s latest coronavirus pred...

Bonds agency lost more than £1m

By Dan Peters | 22 June 2020

The UK Municipal Bonds Agency (UKMBA) lost more than £1m in the two years up to the end of Novemb...

RSA calls for investment in regional banks

By Dan Peters | 22 June 2020

Councils should invest in shares in their regional bank, a charity has urged.

Rugby's Norburn to leave sector

By Dan Peters | 19 June 2020

Rugby BC’s most senior officer has announced his departure more than 30 years after joining the c...

Coronavirus has turned 'financial cracks into craters'

By Dan Peters | 18 June 2020

The new president of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA) has warned that co...

Councils urged to re-appraise in-sourcing

By Dan Peters | 18 June 2020

Local authorities have been urged to look at what they could do better than outsourcers in the wa...

Combined authority 'spending reserves like it's going out of fashion'

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2020

Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s chief executive has expressed doubts about whether his re...

Luton forced into unavoidable cuts

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2020

Luton BC’s boss has said the council has done all it can but has no other choice than to cut 365 ...

South Ribble chief executive resigns

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2020

South Ribble BC’s chief executive has resigned after a year on ‘special leave’.