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WHITEHALL

All regions told to take asylum seekers

By Dan Peters | 14 April 2022

All regions of England, Scotland and Wales will be expected to take a share of asylum seekers und...

FINANCE

LGA in energy costs leisure warning

By Dan Peters | 12 April 2022

Rising energy costs are ‘driving decisions’ to close council leisure facilities or reduce opening...

WHITEHALL

Soaring vacancies and declining pay highlight sector crisis

By Dan Peters | 12 April 2022

Latest figures this week showing the soaring number of job vacancies coupled with declining publi...

WHITEHALL

Alarm bells ring over scrapping of housing rule

By Dan Peters | 11 April 2022

The Government risks ‘drastically undermining’ London’s ambitions to boost affordable housebuildi...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Home Office shuns London housing agreement

By Dan Peters | 11 April 2022

The Home Office has refused to commit to signing up to a key agreement governing London boroughs’...

WHITEHALL

LGA sits on fence on voter ID

By Dan Peters | 08 April 2022

Political deadlock is preventing the Local Government Association (LGA) from agreeing a policy po...

FINANCE

Town halls must find more cash for wages

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Paul Marinko | 06 April 2022

Councils have been warned they will have to find more in their budgets to fund the sector’s incre...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Councils to call for greater devo after White Paper

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2022

The local government sector is to make the case for greater devolution beyond the Levelling Up Wh...

FINANCE

Sector set to clash over rates reform

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2022

A sector clash is threatening to erupt over business rates retention, with views split on the fut...

WHITEHALL

Pressure put on Treasury for extra COVID cash

By Dan Peters | 21 March 2022

The UK’s health agency has been adding to pressure on the Treasury to hand millions of pounds of ...

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