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WHITEHALL
Future Forum: 'Hope' for council tax overhaul
By Martin Ford | 20 March 2024
Labour could be presented with an opportunity to reform council tax if election polls are borne o...
FINANCE
Welsh council tax rises finalised
By Paul Marinko | 13 March 2024
The average council tax rise for Welsh local authorities will be just over 8% next year.
FINANCE
Who can solve the council tax conundrum?
By Jon Rowney | 13 March 2024
In the latest of The MJ’s series outlining a new vision for local government, drawing from the Ly...
COUNCIL TAX
Limited exemptions for empty homes powers
By Mark Conrad | 11 March 2024
Councils will face only a limited number of exemptions from new powers allowing them to levy high...
FINANCE
Daring to be bold
By Piali Das Gupta | 06 March 2024
The MJ’s series on building a new vision for local government, drawing from the 2007 Lyons Review...
FINANCE
Council funding crisis 'existential'
By Martin Ford | 01 March 2024
Local government’s funding crisis threatens to derail ambitions to level up the north of England,...
FINANCE
Scottish Budget 'not good' for communities
By Dan Peters | 28 February 2024
Next year’s Scottish Budget is ‘not good’ for communities, council leaders have said.
WHITEHALL
What the Budget will mean for councils
By David Phillips | 27 February 2024
David Phillips says a focus on tax cuts in the upcoming Budget does not mean councils will go com...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
Cuts put hard squeeze on most deprived councils
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 27 February 2024
New analysis reveals upper tier local authorities in the most deprived decile have seen a real-te...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
14 years on: The 'winners' and 'losers'
By Maks Wieczorski | 27 February 2024
New data shows how £13.9bn of cumulative cuts in local authority funding in the 14 years since 20...
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As Service Manager – Property and Investment, you will be the Council’s professional lead on for commercial property and investment. Apply for this job
Director of Education
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Stoke-on-Trent is ambitious for its children and young people. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Corporate Resources (Section 151 Officer) & Deputy Chief Executive
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