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Tips for the residential care top-ups
SOCIAL CARE

Tips for the residential care top-ups

By Lisa Morgan | 14 January 2026

As care costs continue to increase, local authorities must ensure their top-up fee processes for people who need residential care are sound, lawful and well documented, says Lisa Morgan.

POLICY AND POLITICS

'High probability' section 114 warning for Starmer

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2026

North Somerset Council’s leader has warned Prime Minister Keir Starmer there is a ‘high probabili...

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Opposition leader refuses to sign 'NDA' over £10m payment

By Dan Peters | 19 December 2025

An opposition leader has refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in return for being tol...

LEGAL

EXCLUSIVE: Council holds back chunk of tribunal payment

By Dan Peters | 17 December 2025

More than a third of £4.6m damages ordered by an employment tribunal has not been paid by a counc...

LEGAL

Councils are included in the class action against the Motorola-owned Airwave Network

By Clare Spottiswoode CBE | 15 December 2025

Local authorities are in line to receive a portion of any damages awarded for alleged unfair pri...

BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL

Brum reaches final equal pay deal

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2025

A final equal pay settlement has been reached between Birmingham City Council, the Birmingham Chi...

BUSINESS

Sector compensation claim after excess profits

By Neil Merrick | 12 December 2025

Local authorities stand to gain compensation from an anti-competition lawsuit being brought again...

FINANCE

Council tax prison call

By Dan Peters | 11 December 2025

England should follow Scotland and Wales in scrapping the sanction of imprisonment for non-paymen...

REORGANISATION

They'll tell the story of… local government reorganisation

By Beth Stewart | 09 December 2025

Beth Stewart assistant director, strategy & innovation at Newtrality says: 'To borrow from the mu...

PLANNING

What does the Epping 'asylum hotel' High Court case mean for councils and planning departments?

By Ben Standing | 08 December 2025

After a council’s attempt to block asylum seekers from staying at a hotel was thwarted by the cou...

ASYLUM

Epping Forest to appeal Bell Hotel decision despite set back

By Joe Lepper | 03 December 2025

Epping Forest DC is to appeal a High Court injunction to stop the use of a hotel, which has been ...

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