Policy-and-politics - Page 22

By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024

A council could reduce how often it picks up household rubbish that cannot be recycled or compost...

FINANCE

Think-tank's call for landfill tax devolution

By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024

A think-tank has called for a portion of the proceeds from landfill tax to be devolved to councils.

DEVOLUTION

Parties draw battlelines for local elections

By Martin Ford | 28 March 2024

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given a speech in Dudley today following campaign launches by ...

DEVOLUTION

Growth key to devolution ambitions

By Martin Ford | 26 March 2024

Nathan Yeowell told The MJ’s Future Forum that aligning devolution with the aims of fostering eco...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Ready for a bright new dawn?

By Mike Emmerich | 26 March 2024

Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture represented a clear shift away from New Labour towards an active stat...

SOCIAL CARE

Care satisfaction hits all-time low

By Martin Ford | 25 March 2024

Public satisfaction with social care services has slumped to the lowest level ever recorded, acco...

WHITEHALL

'Grave concerns' over phone switchover

By Dan Peters | 22 March 2024

UK mayors have expressed ‘grave concerns’ about the impact on vulnerable people of the planned ph...

WHITEHALL

Call for reintroduction of housing targets

By Dan Peters | 22 March 2024

A cross-party coalition representing 27 mid-sized regional British cities has called for the next...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Officer-councillor tensions affecting outcomes, review finds

By Mark Conrad | 20 March 2024

‘Clear and obvious tensions’ between Teignbridge DC’s executive and senior leadership team are ‘i...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Titles may come in peers

20 March 2024

Local government peers are like buses.

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