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FINANCE
Government to set out SEND deficit plans
By Martin Ford | 03 April 2025
The Government is to set out how it will tackle the £6bn special educational needs and disabiliti...
HOMELESSNESS
Picking up the pieces of a financial death loop
By Heather Jameson | 03 April 2025
Heather Jameson says: 'Amid a well-rehearsed list of increasing crises facing local authorities, ...
FINANCE
Council finance system 'not fit for purpose', MPs told
By Martin Ford | 11 March 2025
The system for turning around councils in financial distress is ‘not fit for purpose’ councillors...
POLITICS
Housing: This time it's personal
By Martin Ford | 12 February 2025
Martin Ford sat down with the Housing, Communities and Local Government committee’s new chair Flo...
REORGANISATION
MPs hear sector divisions over reorganisation
By Martin Ford | 28 January 2025
The size and scale of local authorities following reorganisation has left the sector divided.
REORGANISATION
Minister rejects 'diktat' accusation
By Martin Ford | 20 January 2025
Local government minister Jim McMahon has rebuffed accusations that reorganisation amounts to a ‘...
REORGANISATION
Rayner rejects reorganisation 'distraction' claim
By Martin Ford | 07 January 2025
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has denied that local government reorganisation will impact o...
HOMELESSNESS
Councils to be 'incentivised' to take preventative approach to homelessness
By Martin Ford | 03 December 2024
The Government hopes to ‘incentivise’ local authorities into using funding for homelessness servi...
HOUSING
Government will 'not hesitate' to intervene in planning
By Martin Ford | 20 November 2024
The Government will ‘not hesitate’ to take an interventionist approach to local government in pla...
SEND
MPs sound alarm on SEND deficits
By Martin Ford | 19 November 2024
Deficits in SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) budgets are among the top concerns ...
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