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REORGANISATION
McMahon: No intention to delay reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 25 June 2025
The Government has ‘no intention to delay at all the local government reorganisation process’, mi...
POLITICS
McMahon: Government will abolish council committee system
By Dan Peters | 24 June 2025
The Government has announced plans to legislate to abolish the committee system.
HOUSING
Government to create national housing bank
By Joe Lepper | 17 June 2025
A national housing bank will be created by the Government to help finance the building of 500,000...
POLITICS
Ministers propose cancelling Surrey CC elections again
By Dan Peters | 17 June 2025
Ministers have proposed cancelling Surrey CC elections for a second year as they launched a consu...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Settling old scores
By Annie Pickering | 17 June 2025
Annie Pickering says the second year of the Council Climate Action Scorecards reveals that more l...
POLITICS
Starmer announces grooming gangs statutory inquiry
By Dan Peters | 16 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will launch a statutory inquiry into the grooming ga...
POLITICS
Hollinrake warning over DOGE request
By Dan Peters | 13 June 2025
Requests for data by Reform UK’s DOGE unit are a ‘cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’, sha...
SOCIAL CARE
Streeting urges NHS to 'work better with local government'
By Michael Burton | 12 June 2025
Health and care secretary Wes Streeting has promised mayors and council leaders ‘a seat at the ta...
IMPROVEMENT
Minister suggests commissioners needed for Croydon
By Dan Peters | 12 June 2025
Minister Jim McMahon has suggested escalating Croydon LBC’s statutory intervention to a commissio...
REORGANISATION
Lancashire moves closer to reorganisation agreement
By By Neil Merrick | 12 June 2025
Councils in Lancashire are edging closer to an agreement on reorganisation, but it is likely to b...
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