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POLITICS
LGA shake-up after Reform polls success
By Paul Marinko | 08 May 2025
Reform UK is expected to form a political group within the Local Government Association (LGA) aft...
POLITICS
Starmer 'acutely aware' of SEND risk
By Dan Peters | 23 December 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is ‘acutely aware’ that demand and market failure across special educ...
FINANCE
Rebuilding trust: why local audit reforms can't wait
By Iain Murray | 18 December 2024
Rebuilding the audit system is a key component in resolving local government’s funding crisis, wr...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
CIPFA calls for social care reform
By Martin Ford | 12 December 2024
A call has been made to the Government to end a ‘vicious cycle’ in social care causing pressure t...
FINANCE
Call for clarity on funding reforms
By Martin Ford | 09 December 2024
Experts have called for more clarity on the Government’s reform of council funding.
FINANCE
NAO blames council audit backlog for failure to sign off Government accounts
By Dan Peters | 26 November 2024
The Government’s financial accounts have failed to be signed off for the first time due to ‘sever...
POLITICS
Kendall: Local government to join up work opportunities
By Emily Twinch | 26 November 2024
Mayors and councils will be given powers to join up services locally to tackle worklessness, the ...
INNOVATION
Reform required to unleash preventative approach, says report
By Martin Ford | 21 May 2024
Central government reforms are needed to help innovation in preventative services at a local leve...
WHITEHALL
Time for a cross-government framework for place-based collaboration
By Jessica Studdert | 13 May 2024
Revisiting Total Place principles would offer a strong foundation for a wider shift across the pu...
WHITEHALL
Agile action on the road to reform
By Bob Neill | 26 August 2023
The whole process upon which local government funding is based, including the formula determining...
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