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POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Standards shake-up
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Government privately reaffirms commitment to legislative reforms to standards originally proposed under Starmer regime.
FINANCE
Call for long-term EFS plan
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
The Government must turn exceptional financial support (EFS) into a ‘managed recovery regime rath...
ANGELA RAYNER
Rayner expected to send in commissioners to Bedford BC
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Communities secretary Angela Rayner has indicated that the Government is minded to appoint commis...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
By Dan Peters | 14 October 2026
Council chief executives have warned Whitehall that local authorities must be treated as equal pa...
HR
Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
By Paul Marinko | 12 October 2026
Manchester City Council’s chief executive has said the authority ‘won’t rest’ until ‘deeply conce...
PEOPLE
Aberdeen appoints chief executive
By Martin Ford | 12 October 2026
Aberdeen City Council has appointed Andy MacDonald as its chief executive.
POLICY AND POLITICS
'A denial of democracy'
By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026
Commissioner-led intervention is ‘problematic’ and a ‘denial of local democracy’, the chief execu...
TECHNOLOGY
EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall 'exploring' using AI to help intervention decisions
By Dan Peters | 07 October 2026
Whitehall is ‘exploring’ the use of AI to help assess councils against the key risk indicators fo...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Work on Whitehall tensions tool slows under Burnham
By Dan Peters | 07 October 2026
Work on a Whitehall tool to track community tensions has slowed since the change of Prime Ministe...
PEOPLE
Cheshire East to appoint interim chief executive
By Martin Ford | 07 October 2026
Paul Walker is set to be confirmed as interim chief executive at Cheshire East Council.
POLICY AND POLITICS
IFS warning over fiscal devolution
By Joe Lepper | 05 October 2026
The Government’s regional fiscal devolution agenda threatens to be blighted by regional imbalance...
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