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ECONOMIC GROWTH
Fair funding delay 'missed opportunity'
By Martin Ford | 11 January 2023
Pushing back the long-awaited fair funding review risks making the process even more difficult, a...
DEVOLUTION
More resources needed to tackle anti-social conduct
By Martin Ford | 11 January 2023
Councils need resources to meet the Government’s aim of tackling anti-social behaviour, Prime Min...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Culture clash doomed merger
By Martin Ford | 11 January 2023
Councils should be wary of clashing of cultures after it led to the collapse of a council merger,...
WHITEHALL
Heslop: Councils are Government funding priority
By Martin Ford | 10 January 2023
Local authorities rival health and education as a funding priority for the Government, a Whitehal...
FINANCE
DLUHC: More section 114 notices not expected
By Mark Conrad | 10 January 2023
Whitehall officials are not expecting councils to issue further section 114 notices in the coming...
SOLACE
So many failures looks like carelessness, as Oscar Wilde almost said
By Abdool Kara | 10 January 2023
Some combination of senior councillors and officers is at fault when it comes to council failures...
FINANCE
A review of funding is essential
By Patrick Melia | 10 January 2023
The repeatedly late publication of the provisional local government finance settlement is deeply ...
HEALTH
Government care home plan could create more problems, councils fear
By Paul Marinko | 09 January 2023
Councils fear the Government’s plans to buy up care home places to help with hospital discharges ...
WHITEHALL
Councils call for greater oversight of out-of-school settings
By Mark Conrad | 09 January 2023
Councils have demanded greater powers to scrutinise out-of-school settings (OOSS) after a Governm...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Top awards for sector in King Charles III's Honours list
By Martin Ford | 03 January 2023
Local government figures from across the sector have been recognised in the first New Year's Hono...
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