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Budget 2026: Healey's first Budget delivers fiscal devo vision

By Heather Jameson | 28 October 2026

Chancellor John Healey has launched his first Budget, promising to ease pressure on families and businesses, a roadmap to fiscal devolution and a raft of new mayoral authorities.

AUTUMN BUDGET

Autumn Budget must provide the financial stability councils need

By Chris Cooke | 19 October 2026

Writing ahead of next week’s Autumn Budget, chair of SIGOMA mayor Chris Cooke says councils need ...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Local councils: Funding the transition to care reform

By Colin Ansell | 19 October 2026

Before a National Care Service is created, a bridge over troubled water is needed. One possible a...

FINANCE

Local government reorganisation: Financial sustainability amid uncertainty

By Rob Powell | 14 October 2026

'If the test for LGR across England is merely that the new arrangements should be no less unsusta...

REORGANISATION

Building resilience beyond reorganisation

By Caroline Green | 21 September 2026

LGR may be paused, but stronger relationships, insight and capacity can still drive lasting refor...

FINANCE

Balancing budgets, civic pride and local government reorganisation

By By Kathy O’Leary | 09 September 2026

A final council budget must balance financial reality with civic ambition, says Kathy O'Leary.

RESILIENCE

Building resilient communities before the next crisis

By Andrew McClelland | 27 August 2026

Creating more resilient communities is a human imperative as well as a financial one, say Duncan ...

INTERVENTION

LGA warning over council intervention metrics

By Martin Ford | 01 July 2026

Analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) has uncovered issues with the proposed methods...

FINANCE

The role of internal audit for councils under pressure

By Diana Melville | 16 June 2026

Diana Melville says financial pressure exposes weaknesses in governance, control and capacity, an...

COMMUNITIES

Towards a community-powered future

By Anna Randle | 11 June 2026

New Local’s annual festival of community power, Stronger Things, gets under way next week. Anna R...

FINANCE

Unai Emery's brilliance provides a great blueprint for local government finance leaders

By Rob Powell | 05 June 2026

Rob Powell says local government finance leaders have much to learn from Aston Villa's manager Un...