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Cuts have hit council financial information, report finds
FINANCE

Cuts have hit council financial information, report finds

By Neil Merrick | 22 August 2025

Councillors and members of the public are not being presented with accurate or easy to understand information about local authority budgets, a report has found.

LEGAL

Farage: Put pressure on councils to follow Epping Forest

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged people to 'put pressure' on councils to go to court after...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: LGA must show its value to councils, says Reform UK group leader

By Dan Peters | 15 August 2025

Reform UK will review its decision to have a group at the Local Government Association (LGA) afte...

REORGANISATION

Rutland leader weighing options after confidence vote survival

By Joe Lepper | 14 August 2025

Rutland CC’s leader has pledged to consider alternative reorganisation plans after surviving a no...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: LGA urged to consider northern office

By Dan Peters | 14 August 2025

Senior Local Government Association (LGA) figures have urged the organisation to consider opening...

LEGAL

Council tight-lipped over monitoring officer departure

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025

Hertfordshire’s Three Rivers DC has declined to comment on whether it paid a financial settlement...

ENVIRONMENT

Not zero: Core cities admit they will fail to hit ambitious climate targets

By Dan Peters | 07 August 2025

Core cities have called for billions of pounds of investment to transition to net zero after admi...

REORGANISATION

Rutland leader survives no confidence vote amid reorganisation row

By Joe Lepper | 06 August 2025

The leader of Rutland CC has survived a no confidence vote amid concerns over the local authority...

SCRUTINY

'Blindsided' councillors back scrutiny improvements

By Joe Lepper | 01 August 2025

Councillors have backed measures to improve Cardiff Capital Region’s scrutiny process, including ...

REORGANISATION

Plan to split county in two 'increasingly likely'

By Martin Ford | 31 July 2025

A reorganisation that would split Nottinghamshire into two is becoming increasingly likely, altho...

POLITICS

MP's warning after asylum protests

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2025

Protests at an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers is a ‘crisis that risks boiling over’, an MP ha...

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