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Lincolnshire districts back unitary idea

By Ann McGauran | 28 March 2023

A partnership of three district councils has backed the idea of becoming a unitary to help secure...

EXCLUSIVE: Councils stretched despite fund boost

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2023

Councils have raised the alarm over their capacity to deliver the Household Support Fund (HSF) as...

Bromley to stay in London collective investment vehicle

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2023

Bromley LBC will stay in the London collective investment vehicle (LCIV) pooling Local Government...

Harris under pressure to back slashing of audit requirements

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2023

The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) first director of local audit is facing increasing pressu...

Croydon pushes ahead with drive to hold former leaders to account

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2023

Croydon LBC has announced ‘unprecedented action’ to hold ex-senior leadership to account for ‘mis...

Dundee workers to strike over outsourcing plan

By Dan Peters | 21 March 2023

More than 300 Dundee City Council workers have voted to strike as they fight plans to outsource s...

Future Forum: Workforce crisis may stop us in our tracks

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2023

The workforce crisis facing local government is the ‘big one that will stop us all in our tracks,...

Future Forum: We've had to do it ourselves

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2023

A chief executive whose council has repeatedly lost out bidding for levelling up funds has told h...

Future Forum: Get the fundamentals right to avoid Government inspectors

By Dan Peters | 16 March 2023

Councils should ‘get the fundamentals right’ to avoid central Government inspectors calling, a to...

Future Forum: Chief calls for more shadowing

By Dan Peters | 16 March 2023

A former senior civil servant turned council chief executive has called for more shadowing betwee...