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FINANCE
Rates reset could force 'deep cuts'
By Dan Peters | 10 June 2025
Local authorities will be forced to make ‘deep cuts to important services’ if the Government push...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Ministry admits disabled grant delay
By Joe Lepper | 05 June 2025
Councils will not receive their 2025-26 Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funding until late June, ...
PLANNING
Planning change labelled 'catastrophic'
By Martin Ford | 25 April 2025
Ministers have been told proposals aimed at speeding up planning approval for infrastructure proj...
HOUSING
Communities will judge us on the number of homes built
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 23 April 2025
If councils are given teeth to prevent land-banking and slow build-out rates they can help ensure...
PLANNING
Local government upheaval could hit new town development
By Martin Ford | 22 April 2025
Peers have heard of concerns over the impact of local government reorganisation and devolution on...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA updates business plan amid reorganisation shake-up
By Dan Peters | 09 April 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) is working on a new business plan as mayors increasingly r...
REORGANISATION
More Don't Leave Me This Way than Never Can Say Goodbye?
By Kathy O’Leary | 06 April 2025
'Perhaps size doesn’t matter as much as finding what is optimal to work well at neighbourhood lev...
FINANCE
Let's plant new bulbs to bloom stronger
By Tracy Bingham | 28 March 2025
Funding reform and reorganisation have a role, but a real-terms sector funding injection is also ...
REORGANISATION
LGR plans could pose social care threat
By Martin Ford | 19 March 2025
‘Seismic’ changes brought about by local government reorganisation could pose a threat to social ...
POLICY
Spring Statement: No more cash for councils
By Emily Twinch | 19 March 2025
Next week’s Spring Statement will give a flavour of the financial pressures local authorities wil...
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- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
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Director of Adults Commissioning and Provider Services
£100,731 - £104,625
To help us realise this vision, we are seeking an exceptional Director of Adults Commissioning and Provider Services Apply for this job
Director of Legal and Governance
£109,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Finance
£131,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Strategic authority in senior role swap
- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Suffolk to make decision on legal challenge to reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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