News The MJ
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Councils 'struggling' to tackle cohesion threats
March 28, 2024
Councils are struggling to tackle threats to social cohesion due to a lack of support from central government, according to a major review.
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Growth key to devolution ambitions
March 26, 2024
Nathan Yeowell told The MJ’s Future Forum that aligning devolution with the aims of fostering economic growth would be key should Labour assume power following the General Election.
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Care satisfaction hits all-time low
March 26, 2024
Public satisfaction with social care services has slumped to the lowest level ever recorded, according to a new survey.
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Reeves set to get Wakefield job permanently
March 26, 2024
Former Liverpool City Council boss Tony Reeves is believed to be set to become the permanent chief executive at Wakefield Council.
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Ministers stand firm on tax bands
March 26, 2024
Ministers have reiterated to MPs there are ‘no plans’ to revalue council tax bands due to the cost and disproportionate impact on lower-income households and pensioners.
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Future Forum: Call for 'wholesale' return to council housing
March 26, 2024
The only thing that will solve Britain’s housing crisis will be a ‘wholesale return to council housing,’ according to the chair of UK Innovation Corridor, Jackie Sadek.
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Future Forum: Call for councils to be 'brave' in contract negotiations
March 26, 2024
Councils need to be ‘braver’ and ‘bolder’ in their conversations with private service providers, according to Portsmouth City Council’s chief executive.
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Asylum centre site could host prison
March 25, 2024
Braintree DC has warned it faces intervention from a second Government department when the Home Office ends its controversial use of a former airfield as an asylum centre.
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Scottish councils in tax U-turn
March 25, 2024
Argyll and Bute and Inverclyde councils had both voted to raise tax in defiance of the Scottish Government's efforts to secure a nationwide freeze.
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Complex funding stymies net-zero push
March 25, 2024
A ‘complex web’ of hard-to-reach Whitehall funding pots is hampering councils’ net-zero initiatives – with two-thirds of town halls not confident of hitting crucial targets.
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Future Forum: Relationship between councils and NHS 'dysfunctional at worst'
March 25, 2024
The relationship between local government leaders and the NHS is ‘immature at best and dysfunctional at worst’, The MJ Future Forum has been told.
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Future Forum: Poor energy planning 'causing barriers to green growth'
March 25, 2024
A lack of co-ordination in how the energy system is planned is causing barriers ‘not only to decarbonisation and retrofit, but to green economic growth’, The MJ Future Forum has heard.