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Localis hired for fiscal devolution study

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

The Local Government Association has commissioned research to better understand how greater contr...

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Permitted development pressure on Government grows

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2020

Pressure is growing on the Government to conclude its review of homes built under controversial p...

FINANCE

COSLA: Invest in councils before it is too late

By Dan Peters | 10 January 2020

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) has launched a campaign to persuade finance ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Government: Commissioner no longer needs to oversee Wakefield children's services

By Dan Peters | 10 January 2020

The Government has agreed that a commissioner no longer needs to oversee Wakefield Council’s chil...

LONDON COUNCILS

A gap that will prove hard to close

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2020

Dan Peters investigates the scale of the funding challenge faced by the 32 councils told by the G...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Pension funds pile pressure on Barclays over fossil fuel financing

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2020

Four pension funds will pile pressure on Barclays to phase out its financing of fossil fuel compa...

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Doubts over March local industrial strategy deadline

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2020

The Government’s public commitment that all areas will have a local industrial strategy (LIS) agr...

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EXCLUSIVE: 100% business rates retention could be back on agenda

By Dan Peters | 07 January 2020

Full retention of business rates could shoot back up the agenda as part of a long-awaited Governm...

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Government dismisses same-sex marriage concerns

By Paul Marinko | 07 January 2020

The Government has dismissed council concerns over registrars potentially refusing to perform sam...

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Prevent review goes back to the drawing board

By Dan Peters | 03 January 2020

The Home Office has scrapped ‘overly confined’ terms of reference for an independent review of it...

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