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LEGISLATION

Wales considers PR for local elections

By Laura Sharman | 18 July 2017

Councils could be allowed to introduce proportional representation for local elections under new ...

FINANCE

CIPFA conference: Councils will be at back of queue

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2017

Councils will be at the back of the public sector queue for additional funding, a senior local go...

ELECTIONS

What do voters want?

By Mark Rogers | 12 July 2017

As the dust settles on the recent election results – and with more people seemingly turning up to...

FINANCE

DUP cash would transform Greater Manchester's transport

By Jonathan Werran | 12 July 2017

Infrastructure funding of the scale afforded to Northern Ireland would revitalise the English reg...

DCLG

What alternatives are we offering?

By Jonathan Carr-West | 05 July 2017

A desire for local government to lead by example rather than wait on Westminster is gaining momen...

FINANCE

We've been DUP-ped

05 July 2017

‘You can’t put a price on democracy’, our mum once told a bewildered young Diary.

EUROPEAN UNION

The local state we are in – and where to go from here

By Jonathan House | 29 June 2017

Fresh off the heels of PwC's 'Local State We're In' survey, Jonathan House looks at how local gov...

FINANCE

DUP deal won't change Barnett calculations

By Mark Conrad | 28 June 2017

The Conservative-DUP deal will have no impact on Barnett formula calculations, Treasury sources h...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Westminster could learn something from local place leadership

By Judith Blake | 28 June 2017

Judith Blake highlights some of the outstanding examples of whole-place leadership in the UK's ci...

FINANCE

Dawn Baxendale: Chiefs have lost their public service raison d'être

By Sam Clayden | 28 June 2017

Dawn Baxendale speaks to Sam Clayden about how Southampton City Council – and local government as...