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Isle of Wight debt accounts for 42% of annual budget

By Paul Marinko | 30 January 2024

Isle of Wight Council has insisted it borrows to invest in essential projects after revealing its...

No promise of extra funding from Rayner

By Paul Marinko | 29 January 2024

Shadow levelling up secretary Angela Rayner has avoided committing Labour to providing local gove...

Growing pressures see care providers close services

By Paul Marinko | 16 January 2024

A new report has found 43% of care providers closed services or handed back contracts last year i...

Research finds ALMOs outperforming in-house council teams

By Paul Marinko | 15 January 2024

New analysis has claimed arms-length management organisations (ALMOs) have outperformed councils ...

Middlesbrough set to ask for Government support in bid to avoid s114

By Paul Marinko | 11 January 2024

Middlesbrough Council is set to ask the Government for Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) as it ...

Ban on councils boycotting Israel moves forward

By Paul Marinko | 11 January 2024

MPs have voted through legislation that aims to ban councils from launching boycotts of Israeli g...

Bristol in £25m contract with scandal-hit IT firm

By Paul Marinko | 11 January 2024

Bristol City Council has been revealed to have an IT contract worth £25m with scandal-hit firm Fu...

£2.9bn private investment in freeports says Gove

By Paul Marinko | 10 January 2024

Michael Gove has said new freeports have attracted £2.9bn of investment and created 6,000 jobs si...

Is this the end of innovation?

By Paul Marinko | 10 January 2024

Is there a tendency among council members to play it safe and avoid risks? Norse Group and The MJ...

Liverpool to regain certain functions but intervention expected to continue

By Paul Marinko | 13 December 2023

Liverpool City Council is set to regain control over some of its functions, but commissioners are...