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Future Forum: LGA hopeful over finance reform

By Martin Ford | 16 March 2023

Hopes for a large-scale reform of council funding have been raised by the Budget, according to a ...

Call for 'full reset' of children's care

By Martin Ford | 15 March 2023

The Government’s approach to children’s social care will not solve the issues within the system, ...

Budget 2023: LEPs to be scrapped

By Martin Ford | 15 March 2023

Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) are to be effectively abolished within a year, chancellor Je...

Public health grant 'insufficient'

By Martin Ford | 14 March 2023

Councils ‘finally have clarity’ on next year’s public health grant but warned it will be ‘insuffi...

Lords complain of 'air of mystique' around Levelling Up Bill

By Martin Ford | 14 March 2023

Peers have rounded on a lack of detail in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

Exeter announces new chief exective

By Martin Ford | 14 March 2023

Bindu Arjoon has been appointed as the new chief executive of Exeter City Council.

No extra social care funding for struggling councils

By Martin Ford | 13 March 2023

A minister said councils would receive further support if they were found to be in need of improv...

Chief executive to leave Middlesbrough

By Martin Ford | 13 March 2023

Middlesbrough Council’s chief executive Tony Parkinson is to stand down from the authority later ...

Norwich to appoint interim chief

By Martin Ford | 13 March 2023

Louise Rawsthorne is expected to step into the role of interim chief executive at Norwich City Co...

LGA moves to tackle workforce crisis

By Martin Ford | 10 March 2023

The association’s executive advisory board heard that all of the Local Government Association’s p...