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WHITEHALL
Government digs in over asylum housing target
By Mark Conrad | 29 May 2024
The Home Office has doubled down on council concerns over asylum targets and insisted its Full Di...
PLANNING
Labour set to build like it's 1945
By Paul Marinko | 28 May 2024
As the General Election race kicks into gear, Labour hopes its new towns policy will prove the so...
WELFARE
Knitting the net to tackle hardship
By More recently the Household Support Fund (HSF) has played a crucial role in bolstering this provision. But the HSF is now due to end in September. This is deeply short-sighted. As the National Audit Office has shown, local welfare assistance generates savings for other parts of local and national government by preventing crises spiralling. | 28 May 2024
Speaker at New Local's upcoming Stronger Things 2024 Katie Schmuecker argues councils are key to ...
HOUSING
A design for living
By Sally Dickinson | 28 May 2024
Sally Dickinson explains how the Berkeley Foundation is working with its charity partner and loca...
WHITEHALL
General Election: Pay transparency legislation falls
By Martin Ford | 28 May 2024
Key council-related legislation – including fresh transparency over senior pay – failed to make i...
WHITEHALL
Council reaches agreement over controversial asylum site
By Mark Conrad | 28 May 2024
West Lindsey DC is celebrating a success in its campaign to protect a £300m regeneration project ...
HOUSING
The MJ Comment - Whitehall is expecting a magic trick over asylum seeker housing
By Paul Marinko | 22 May 2024
As our front page reveals, the Government is continuing to pile pressure on councils to house asy...
HOUSING
Nearly 190,000 social homes expected to be lost by 2040
By William Eichler | 22 May 2024
The controversial Right to Buy scheme is expected to reduce the dwindling social housing stock by...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Councils given 100,000 asylum housing target
By EXCLUSIVE by Mark Conrad | 21 May 2024
Councils have been told to identify an extra 100,000 bedspaces for asylum seekers this year amid ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The regeneration gap
By Jonathan Swain | 21 May 2024
As local and regional government colleagues gather in Leeds this week for UKREiiF 2024, Jonathan ...
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