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By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 01 November 2022

Rishi Sunak will be aware there is a hugely powerful case for councils' funding to be protected, ...

PEOPLE

DCN vice chair awarded peerage

By Martin Ford | 17 October 2022

District Councils’ Network (DCN) vice-chair Sharon Taylor is to step down from the role after bei...

WELFARE

Keeping up with the crisis

By Ann McGauran | 04 October 2022

Local communities are facing unprecedented cost of living pressures. Ann McGauran looks at how co...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Delivery failure

By Bob Neill | 04 October 2022

Responding to the chancellor’s fiscal statement, Sir Bob Neill says self-avowed free marketeers s...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Growing pains

By Jamie Holmes | 23 September 2022

Absorbing levelling up and planning into the Prime Minister’s one-size-fits-all growth agenda rai...

HOUSING

We must keep existing housing stock safe

20 September 2022

Housing Revenue Accounts aren’t immune from the effects of inflation, says Tracy Bingham. 'It com...

WHITEHALL

Districts lobby DLUHC over TIF

By Dan Peters | 16 September 2022

District councils have been lobbying ministers to allow them to monetise the benefits of growth.

WHITEHALL

Trust should underpin all our relationships

By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 13 September 2022

The arrival of Prime Minister Liz Truss and the new Cabinet offers us an opportunity to keep on p...

FINANCE

Inflation's stealthy impact

By Martin Ford | 06 September 2022

Double-digit inflation is putting huge pressure on councils, with impacts including fuel price hi...

WELFARE

The cost of living crisis hits the helpers

By Michael Burton | 30 August 2022

A new survey by the District Councils' Network shows the average shortfall from unbudgeted pressu...

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