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Call for place-based Spending Review

By Dan Peters | 07 March 2019

The Treasury should develop a new national place-based Spending Review, the independent Royal Soc...

£100m cost of EU elections if Brexit delayed beyond June

By Dan Peters | 05 March 2019

The UK could be landed with a £100m bill to host EU elections separately from May’s local polls i...

Whitehall pledges Brexit improvement

By Dan Peters | 05 March 2019

Civil servants have insisted they are working to improve information sharing with local authoriti...

Automatic checks used to decide 80% of Settled Status applications

By Dan Peters | 04 March 2019

Four out of five of the 150,000 applications for Settled Status so far have been accepted after a...

Government brushes off Kara criticism

By Dan Peters | 04 March 2019

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has brushed off criticism from ...

Birmingham's bin injunction bid thrown out

By Dan Peters | 01 March 2019

Birmingham City Council has lost its High Court bid for an injunction to stop a strike by bin wor...

Councils issue joint tender

By Dan Peters | 01 March 2019

Bexley and Bromley LBCs have joined forces to invite tenders for the running of their revenue and...

Reorganisation pause after costs escalate

By Dan Peters | 01 March 2019

The leader of Northamptonshire CC has expressed his alarm at the ‘ever-increasing’ costs of local...

Lancashire lukewarm to unitary bid

By Dan Peters | 28 February 2019

Lancashire CC’s leader has given a lukewarm response to plans for a new unitary council.

Council budget 'unsustainable for the future'

By Dan Peters | 27 February 2019

Shetland Islands Council will grab £3.5m from its reserves to balance its 2019/20 budget.