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WHITEHALL

£5.2bn and counting

By Dan Peters | 22 August 2019

The Local Government Association (LGA) will argue the sector faces a £5.2bn funding gap in 2020/2...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh demand for place-based budgets

By Dan Peters | 21 August 2019

A fresh demand for place-based budgets has been made by the co-chair of an independent panel that...

FINANCE

Crime-fighting funds in scarce supply - survey

By Dan Peters | 21 August 2019

Three out of four UK council chief executives and leaders do not have access to enough funding to...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Brexit blow as councils miss MHCLG deadline

By Dan Peters | 20 August 2019

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick’s flagship Brexit policy has been dealt a blow after do...

WHITEHALL

LEP chairs still waiting for PM meeting

By Dan Peters | 20 August 2019

An overdue Prime Minister’s meeting of local enterprise partnership (LEP) chairs has not been sch...

WHITEHALL

Unprecedented joint Spending Review bid floated

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2019

An unprecedented joint bid could be made to next year’s Spending Review by Core Cities, Ministry ...

FINANCE

CIPFA index 'must be forward-looking'

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2019

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) must double down on efforts to ...

WHITEHALL

Jenrick to check councils' borrowing bids

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2019

New local government secretary Robert Jenrick will take a fresh look at councils excessively borr...

WHITEHALL

Commissioners urge NAO to monitor auditor powers

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2019

The National Audit Office (NAO) should monitor auditors’ use of additional powers and use this to...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

MHCLG security review after knife attack

By Dan Peters | 16 August 2019

Security will be reviewed across the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG...

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