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WHITEHALL
Housing minister among casualties of Sunak reshuffle
By Mark Conrad | 13 November 2023
The UK will have its 16th housing minister in 12 years after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s sweepin...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Councils are benched in the King's Speech
By Heather Jameson | 08 November 2023
It is disappointing to see nothing to resolve the woes of the sector in the King's Speech, says H...
PLANNING
The next level begins
By Martin Ford | 08 November 2023
Last month saw the Levelling Up Act receive Royal Assent, but what will that actually mean for lo...
WHITEHALL
Gove's pay plan dismissed as 'unnecessary gimmick'
By Mark Conrad | 07 November 2023
Communities secretary Michael Gove’s embryonic plan to require full councils to approve top salar...
WHITEHALL
Calls to close extremism loopholes
By Martin Ford | 30 October 2023
Local authorities are currently ‘having to police thought’ in their counter-terrorism role, an ex...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accused of misleading council over asylum plans
By Mark Conrad | 24 October 2023
The Home Office faces accusations in the High Court it misled a council over controversial plans ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Not for turning on the four-day week
By Cllr Bridget Smith | 23 October 2023
Leader of South Cambridgeshire DC Cllr Bridget Smith sets out why the council is not backtracking...
SOLACE
New assurance regime needs to be 'far more useful'
By Heather Jameson | 18 October 2023
According to the results of the Solace survey, no one thinks Oflog does the job and most think it...
PLANNING
Threat to councils' planning powers lifted
By Martin Ford | 06 October 2023
Nine councils have avoided being stripped of their planning decision-making powers after drastica...
PLANNING
Gove attacks four-day week 'nonsense' in conference speech
By Martin Ford | 03 October 2023
Local government secretary Michael Gove delivered a speech to the Conservative Party Conference l...
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