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Call for pensions to provide housing boost

By Emily Twinch | 14 May 2025

The £392bn invested in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) could be used to plough necessa...

Call for £100m homelessness cash injection

By Emily Twinch | 13 May 2025

The Government should plough £100m into preventing homelessness over a decade as part of a wide-r...

Local government leads way on SME procurement spend

By Emily Twinch | 12 May 2025

Councils are bucking the trend with spending on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), figure...

Think-tank calls for return of Brown's Total Place

By Emily Twinch | 09 May 2025

An initiative from Gordon Brown’s premiership to integrate local public services’ budgets should ...

Preparing for Trump's tariff curveballs

By Emily Twinch | 07 May 2025

The ripple effect of Donald Trump’s shock introduction of tariffs to goods going into the US has ...

Reform UK 'faces serious challenges'

By Emily Twinch | 06 May 2025

Experts have warned Reform UK faces serious challenges after winning the two latest mayoral posit...

Warning over increased number of NOC councils

By Emily Twinch | 06 May 2025

A law firm has warned of the implications for the sector after the number of councils with no ove...

Mayors elected with lowest ever vote share

By Emily Twinch | 06 May 2025

A change in the voting system to first-past-the-post for mayors meant they were voted in with the...

Reform UK urged to take responsibilities seriously

By Emily Twinch | 06 May 2025

Prominent sector leaders this week called on incoming Reform UK councillors to take their respons...

Skills England 'needs time to prove itself'

By Emily Twinch | 06 May 2025

The agency created by the Government to boost post-16 skills in England needs at least a year to ...