Covid

By Michael Burton | 01 June 2021

Spending on taxpayer-funded health services rose by a record 25% to £220bn last year as the NHS b...

WHITEHALL

Sector calls for closer working after COVID confusion

By Martin Ford | 01 June 2021

The Government has been told it must work more closely with local authorities to successfully eme...

FINANCE

Wilmott Dixon aims to take advantage of levelling up funds

By Heather Jameson | 28 May 2021

Building firm Willmott Dixon is ‘proactively’ working with local areas to take advantage of level...

PLANNING

Community involvement in town centres – supporting local people to do more

By Claire Harding | 28 May 2021

Government should rethink the powers available to local authorities to work with their communitie...

HEALTH

Cummings: Care home shielding claim nonsense

By Dan Peters | 27 May 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser has described government suggestions that car...

FINANCE

Council tax collection deficit hits £500m

By Martin Ford | 27 May 2021

Councils will need ‘additional help from taxpayers’ to balance their books, the Chartered Institu...

SCOTLAND

Sustainability of Scottish councils 'at risk' without long-term financial certainty, watchdog warns

By Dan Peters | 27 May 2021

The financial sustainability of Scottish councils is at risk without a longer-term settlement, th...

PUBLIC HEALTH

COVID dogmatism helps nobody

By Jim McManus | 26 May 2021

The next stage of the UK COVID strategy will be more challenging, but ‘waiting for a perfect answ...

White van man on... COVID restrictions

26 May 2021

I can’t say that a long weekend in Hounslow or Blackburn or Bolton was on my agenda, no disrespec...

DIGITAL

Battling the new apocalypse

By Heather Jameson | 26 May 2021

Local government is besieged by the pandemic, digitalistion, the economy and the impending fiscal...

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