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FINANCE

District concern in wake of finance settlement

By Martin Ford | 20 December 2022

Concern over funding for districts has been voiced following the announcement of the provisional ...

DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

Councils are strong advocates of the 'work your way up' approach

14 December 2022

To tackle widening inequalities, campaigners want social class to become a protected characterist...

PLANNING

Challenging times lie ahead for districts

By Ian Miller | 13 December 2022

The certainty given by the centre’s spending principles for councils seems to revolve mainly arou...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

DCN lobbies for more LGA influence

By Dan Peters | 05 December 2022

Local Government Association (LGA) leaders are coming under increasing pressure to give a larger ...

WELFARE

District warning over temporary accommodation shortage

By Mark Conrad | 02 November 2022

Four-fifths of district councils have warned of shortages of temporary accommodation to meet a ri...

HOUSING

Government priorities will not be achieved without strong local government

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...

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