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BUDGET 2025
Budget: Key Cities seek funding that reflects real pressures
By Cllr John Merry | 01 December 2025
Support for regional growth is welcome, but more must be done to address real pressures facing lo...
BUDGET 2025
Rachel Reeves: The Queen of fiscal drag
By Mike Emmerich | 28 November 2025
The chancellor may have done respectably on putting the public finances on a more secure long-ter...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Putting stability in the spotlight
By Dan Corry | 28 November 2025
Dan Corry says that if the measures in the Budget can lead to some stability that allows growth t...
AUTUMN BUDGET
Councils must speak out on increasing tax-raising powers
By Rob Whiteman CBE | 19 November 2025
As Rob Whiteman spells out local government’s three Budget priorities, he makes it clear: council...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
There are signs of progress with closing the cities productivity gap with London
By Andrew Carter | 17 November 2025
Closing the gap between London and big cities outside the capital is vital to delivering broad-ba...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A new government front door for local impact
By Bramwell Blower | 14 November 2025
Bramwell Blower asks if the Government’s new Office for the Impact Economy can help business and ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Reed refuses to rule out fresh planning legislation
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2025
Fresh planning legislation could be tabled to strip back environmental protections in an effort t...
FINANCE
Putting local government in the Budget driving seat: Leaning on the dream
By Mike Emmerich | 04 November 2025
Asked for his fantasy Budget, Mike Emmerich suggests we should ‘plan for the national big stuff’ ...
REORGANISATION
Local government reorganisation: Better late than never
By Michael Burton | 04 November 2025
While LGR is already proving a challenge, for many Labour ministers it also represents unfinished...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Sunderland leads UK Smart City revolution and tech growth
By Patrick Melia | 31 October 2025
Embedding connectivity infrastructure into the very fabric of urban life can ignite the condition...
Director of Education and Inclusion
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- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent
- Whitehall looking to collaborate with councils on cohesion
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- LCN chair: CCN existence 'illogical'
Director of Education and Inclusion
£120,901
Premium jobAs we move into a new era built on the strengths and ambition of our borough, we are seeking an outstanding Director of Education... Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Network Co-ordination)
£53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobWe are looking for an enthusiastic and highly driven candidate to join our Highways Asset Management team at Calderdale Council. Apply for this job
Joint Chief Planning Officer
£85,456 - £92,027
Across Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales, our councils are doing something genuinely different. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent
- Whitehall looking to collaborate with councils on cohesion
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- LCN chair: CCN existence 'illogical'
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