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Future Forum Midlands: Councils should consider rethinking finance rules to solve problems

By Paul Marinko | 10 September 2025

A public finance expert has suggested local government should consider rethinking the rules to so...

Future Forum Midlands: Councils urged to be transformational under LGR

By Paul Marinko | 10 September 2025

Councils facing local government reorganisation (LGR) have been urged to focus on ‘the transforma...

How to be a successful council chief

By Frazer Thouard | 10 September 2025

In advance of The MJ’s Future Forum Midlands, recruitment specialist GatenbySanderson crunch the ...

Essex claims three unitary reorganisation would best tackle debt crisis

By Paul Marinko | 09 September 2025

Essex CC’s leadership has claimed its favoured three unitary model of reorganisation would best m...

Exclusive: Fair funding 'won't resolve insufficient overall investment'

By Paul Marinko | 04 September 2025

The Government’s fair funding review will ‘not resolve the underlying issue of insufficient overa...

Local government 'has more scope for corruption'

By Paul Marinko | 03 September 2025

A former chief of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy has claimed there is ...

HMOs become centre of latest asylum battle

By By Paul Marinko | 28 August 2025

Councils are being urged to tighten planning laws around Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) as ...

A taxing dilemma

By Paul Marinko | 27 August 2025

Councils calling for council tax reform should be careful what they wish for, writes Paul Marinko

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...

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...