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LEPs start to buckle after overlap threat

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2020

Local enterprise partnerships (LEP) are finally succumbing to a threat by ministers to withhold f...

Councils under ministerial pressure over winter care funding

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2020

Ministers have piled pressure on councils to maintain winter funding for home care packages, hour...

Brum to save millions from up-front pensions payment plan

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2020

Birmingham City Council will pay three years of pension fund contributions up front to save more ...

Pressure on Government grows over schools grant deficits

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2020

Pressure is growing on the Department for Education (DfE) to take responsibility for growing dedi...

Grenfell council adopts participatory budgeting

By Dan Peters | 17 January 2020

The council at the centre of the Grenfell Tower tragedy has used participatory budgeting for the ...

Councils losing £250m a year through business rates avoidance

By Dan Peters | 17 January 2020

Councils are losing £250m a year due to businesses avoiding paying their rates, new research has ...

Medway caves after Ombudsman rap

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020

Medway Council has finally accepted the recommendations in a Local Government Ombudsman public in...

Scottish Government resists business rates devolution plan

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020

Public finance minister Kate Forbes has hit out at opposition proposals to devolve control of bus...

Boost for Yorkshire leaders committee talks

By Dan Peters | 15 January 2020

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has agreed to talks on the role and functions of a new ...

Lancashire first to borrow using municipal bonds agency

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

Local government’s dormant vehicle for lending councils cash was boosted today after announcing d...