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Fiscal devolution: Significant steps away from the centre
FISCAL DEVOLUTION

Fiscal devolution: Significant steps away from the centre

By Marcus Johns | 03 November 2026

Marcus Johns sets out the three key features of the Budget’s fiscal devolution roadmap and says the changes signal a future ‘where Britain escapes its status as over-centralised and highly unequal’.

DEVOLUTION

Local government reorganisation and devolution: Where is the Government's bigger picture?

By Pete Robbins | 02 November 2026

Fiscal levers, strategic geographies and simpler local structures are a genuine piece of the jigs...

LOCAL ECONOMIES

Levelling out uneven social care provision

By Rosie Fogden | 29 October 2026

Fixing the postcode penalty for social care is key if growth is to reach all places, say Ben Fran...

BUDGET 2026

A balanced first step on fiscal devolution

By David Phillips | 29 October 2026

The fiscal devolution roadmap makes it clear the system will allow areas to gain financially from...

FISCAL DEVOLUTION

Budget 2026: Fiscal Devolution Roadmap published and new mayors announced

By Martin Ford | 28 October 2026

A raft of new mayors and long-awaited ‘fiscal devolution roadmap’ have been announced by the Gove...

BUDGETS

Budget 2026: Healey's first Budget delivers fiscal devo vision

By Heather Jameson | 28 October 2026

Chancellor John Healey has launched his first Budget, promising to ease pressure on families and ...

DEVOLUTION

Why devolution needs locality

By Julia Smith | 22 October 2026

Julia Smith says Blaby DC sees every day the value of working closely with local people, and the ...

REWIRING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Local state, national ambition

By Helen Bailey | 22 October 2026

In the latest in a series of articles looking at a reimagined role for local government in a rewi...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Why it's time to stand up for local government

By Heather Jameson | 21 October 2026

'As the spotlight shifts to mayors and strategic authorities, local government must not become th...

GOVERNANCE

Solace standards report highlights lack of police engagement

By Ann McGauran | 21 October 2026

The year-long Standards Commission put together by senior officers’ group Solace today highlighte...

REWIRING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Councils must prove their relevance

By Barry Quirk | 21 October 2026

As the sector awaits the arrival of a devolution White Paper expected to contain a blueprint for ...

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