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SIGOMA
The Recovery Grant: a vital tool to rebuild local communities
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 28 November 2025
Overall, the Government’s local government finance reforms appear to be a positive step forward o...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Reeves commits to homelessness review
By Dan Peters | 27 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to a review of homelessness service funding.
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Unitaries to fight over funding after fair funding decision
By By Martin Ford | 27 November 2025
Fears have been raised local government could ‘tear itself apart’ over funding for new unitary au...
PAY
Budget: Councils to be impacted by minimum wage and threshold freeze
By Paul Marinko | 26 November 2025
Councils, along with other employers, will be impacted by the chancellor’s decision to increase t...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Government to fund SEND
By Heather Jameson | 26 November 2025
Government will fully fund Special Educational Needs and Disabilities from 2028-29, cutting one o...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Two-child benefit cap lifted
By Martin Ford | 26 November 2025
Abolition of the two-child benefit cap in today’s Budget has been welcomed as a ‘first step’ in t...
WALES
Welsh settlement 'does not come close' to matching pressures
By William Eichler | 25 November 2025
Local authority leaders across Wales have warned the provisional 2026-27 local government settlem...
HOUSING
Lambeth to house more families out of area
By Paul Marinko | 24 November 2025
Lambeth LBC is proposing to house more people further out of the borough as housing pressures in ...
PREVENTION
For the first time, prevention can be mapped and measured
By Iain Murray | 24 November 2025
By mapping spend, finance and service teams can build a shared understanding of what prevention l...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Review to assess fee devolution
By Dan Peters | 21 November 2025
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced a review of counc...
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