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COHESION

Taskforce fails to recognise councils' key role in cohesion

By EXCLUSIVE by Paul Marinko | 27 August 2025

Ministers have been accused of failing to recognise the ‘vital role’ of councils in cohesion afte...

HOUSING

Reform councils attack Home Office over asylum housing

By Paul Marinko | 19 August 2025

Reform UK council leaders have written to home secretary Yvette Cooper attacking the Government’s...

COHESION

Can Britain's cohesion drive stop the next riot?

By Paul Marinko | 13 August 2025

The Government’s cohesion taskforce promises a fresh approach to healing divisions – but councils...

HOUSING

Durham tightens HMO rules

By Paul Marinko | 29 July 2025

Durham CC’s Reform administration has tightened Homes of Multiple Occupation (HMO) rules after it...

REORGANISATION

Reading launches 'land grab' of West Berkshire

By Paul Marinko | 29 July 2025

Reading BC has launched a ‘land grab’ of neighbouring West Berkshire wards as the territorial bat...

PAY

Employers and unions agree pay deal

By Paul Marinko | 23 July 2025

Local government employers and the Unison and GMB trade unions have agreed a pay deal for the sec...

WALES

Lessons in lockstep

By Paul Marinko | 17 July 2025

Jayne Bryant talks to Paul Marinko about how Wales’ national government has worked hard to protec...

GOVERNMENT

Nine councils set to receive Government 'innovation squads'

By Paul Marinko | 16 July 2025

Nine councils set to receive ‘innovation squads’ as part of the Government’s ‘test, learn and gro...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Common sense Reform

By Paul Marinko | 03 July 2025

Reform UK is taking a measured approach to implementing change as the party takes charge of Durha...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Navigating place-based decarbonisation

By Paul Marinko | 02 July 2025

In a rapidly changing world and a sector consumed with financial pressures and local government r...

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