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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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