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REORGANISATION
DCN: Alarming lack of evidence behind mega councils push
By Dan Peters | 31 January 2025
District councils have criticised the lack of evidence behind the Government’s push for new unita...
REORGANISATION
District warning over 500,000 threshold
By William Eichler | 24 January 2025
District councils are prepared to engage with local government reorganisation but warn against ‘r...
FINANCE
Ministers urged to reconsider pace of pensions reform
16 January 2025
Ministers have been urged to ‘seriously reconsider’ the fast pace of their reform to the Local Go...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Special educational needs statutory override is 'abomination'
By Martin Ford | 09 January 2025
Accountancy alone will not be enough to end the ‘abomination’ of statutory overrides for special ...
POLITICS
Pennycook: Compulsory purchase to be made 'faster and more efficient'
By Dan Peters | 19 December 2024
Councils will be ‘empowered to buy cheaper land’ through the use of compulsory purchase orders un...
OMBUDSMAN
Ombudsman struggles to allocate cases
By Emily Twinch | 17 December 2024
A 15% increase in complaints received by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman in the la...
HOMELESSNESS
'Duty to collaborate' over homelessness call
By Dan Peters | 16 December 2024
Labour-led London Councils has called for a ‘duty to collaborate’ to be placed on five Whitehall ...
POLICY
Government distances itself from controversial Demos report
By Dan Peters | 12 December 2024
Whitehall officials have distanced themselves from a controversial report that proposed stripping...
POLITICS
Rayner: NIMBYs will no longer have upper hand
By Dan Peters | 09 December 2024
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has announced plans to end the influence of NIMBYs on housebu...
POLICY
Reform: Oflog should become local audit system leader
By Emily Twinch | 02 December 2024
The Government body in charge of councils’ performance in England should be extended so it become...
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