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Fears over ICB cuts impact

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2023

Planned cuts to staffing levels risk driving Integrated Care Boards (ICB) to look inwards over th...

Minister reminds Brum over B&B usage

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2023

Housing minister Felicity Buchan has reminded Birmingham City Council to avoid using bed and brea...

Another council halts TikTok use

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2023

Another council has decided to stop using TikTok despite data showing more than 23 million people...

Call for Oflog independence

By Dan Peters | 14 July 2023

The Government should grant its new performance body Oflog the ‘independence it will need to succ...

Lloyd: Pandemic simulation kept secret from sector

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2023

Lessons from a Whitehall-run pandemic simulation exercise in 2016 were kept secret from local gov...

EXCLUSIVE: LGA warns Hastings about possible section 114

By Dan Peters | 11 July 2023

Hastings BC may be forced to issue a section 114 notice this financial year unless it makes massi...

EXCLUSIVE: Sector panel quietly sidelined by DLUHC

By Dan Peters | 11 July 2023

A panel of experts brought together in an attempt to tackle key issues facing the sector appears ...

Overton rejects breakaway Green group idea

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2023

The re-elected leader of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) independents has rejected the i...

Councils left in lurch over housing benefit assurance

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2023

Scores of councils have been left in the lurch after failing to find an auditor to carry out thei...

Downing Street to wade into nutrient neutrality row

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2023

No10 is expected to wade into the row between councils and conservation agency Natural England, T...