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Councils to feed children during half-term

By Martin Ford | 15 January 2021

Local authorities have been told to fund free meals to schoolchildren during half-term week next ...

PM wants councils to 'lead the fight' on vaccinations

By Martin Ford | 14 January 2021

The Prime Minister has promised councils will receive data on the COVID-19 vaccination programme ...

Wigan insources leisure services

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2021

The council is to bring its leisure centres in-house in a bid to safeguard jobs following the imp...

Councillors voice intervention fears

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2021

Members of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council have raised concerns the authority could f...

London chief announces retirement

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2021

Hackney LBC chief executive Tim Shields is to leave the council following four decades of public ...

Questions over councils' regeneration role

By Martin Ford | 12 January 2021

A lack of funds and expertise prevents local authorities from reversing the decline of many town ...

Lack of entrants to council audit market

By Martin Ford | 12 January 2021

Councils have been urged to play a role in making the local government audit market a more attrac...

Why Hackney's sharing of Windrush heroes' stories stood out

By Martin Ford | 11 January 2021

Hackney LBC received the ‘delivering best outcomes’ award at The MJ Achievement Awards. Martin Fo...

Starmer demands halt to 'absurd' council tax rises

By Martin Ford | 11 January 2021

Labour leader Keir Starmer has called for central government to increase funding for local author...

Chief executive calls time on 40-year career

By Martin Ford | 08 January 2021

Colin Everett will leave Flintshire CC later this year, having joined the authority in 2007.