Crime

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 03 April 2019

‘Early signs’ of escalating community tensions and hate crime related to Brexit have been reporte...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Combined authority rejects mayor's power grab

By Naomi Larsson | 01 April 2019

Plans to transfer control of policing to the West Midlands Mayor have been scrapped following a v...

WHITEHALL

Consultation floats new legal duty in violence crackdown

By Dan Peters | 01 April 2019

A new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence c...

FINANCE

Government review into Caerphilly pay row

By Mike Yuille | 27 March 2019

The Welsh Government is stepping into the long-running dispute over senior council officers’ pay ...

LEGISLATION

Rebuilding lives lost to slavery

By Paul Gerrard | 18 March 2019

Local authorities must do more than meet the ‘bare minimum of the Modern Slavery Act’, writes Pau...

LEGISLATION

A charter to tackle County Lines

By Ann McGauran | 18 March 2019

Islington LBC’s first report on the local implementaton of the Charter Against Modern Slavery sho...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Modern slavery referrals rocket

By Ann McGauran | 15 March 2019

Referrals of potential victims of modern slavery made by councils have soared tenfold in five yea...

WHITEHALL

Automatic checks used to decide 80% of Settled Status applications

By Dan Peters | 04 March 2019

Four out of five of the 150,000 applications for Settled Status so far have been accepted after a...

Council denies 'litany of failures' in Shamima Begum case

By William Eichler | 19 February 2019

Tower Hamlets LBC has denied claims it was responsible for a ‘litany of failures’ leading up to t...

FINANCE

Fraudster took £1m from Westminster pension fund

By Martin Ford | 25 January 2019

A council worker who defrauded a pension fund for more than £1m has today been sentenced to seven...

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