'Decades of neglect' impact on fire safety enforcement
HOUSING

'Decades of neglect' impact on fire safety enforcement

By Martin Ford | 02 October 2024

Talks have been held with the Government over councils’ need for more support to enforce fire safety rules after the Grenfell fire inquiry concluded.

OFLOG

Rethinking Oflog

By Jon Rowney | 26 September 2024

An opportunity exists to rethink what a sustainable and purpose-led assurance framework for local...

HOUSING

'Painful' start to housing regulation

By Martin Ford | 25 September 2024

Councils will experience a ‘painful’ start to the new regime of social housing regulation, a seni...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reviving councils' dormant powers

By David Williams | 12 September 2024

David Williams looks at how councils’ positive Victorian legacy has been curbed and sets out a ma...

REGULATION

Charity Commission in first warning to council

By Ellie Ames | 02 September 2024

A regulator has for the first time issued a local authority with an official warning for failing ...

REGULATION

Ministers: Increase the pace of fixing unsafe buildings

By Dan Peters | 30 August 2024

Ministers have told regulators at a round table meeting to ‘increase the pace of remediating unsa...

REGULATION

Councils acting 'more robustly' over penalty charge notices

By William Eichler | 20 August 2024

The number of penalty charge notices (PCN) referred to enforcement agencies jumped by two-thirds ...

REGULATION

Watchdog's warning over charitable land

By Martin Ford | 09 August 2024

Dozens of councils have run the risk of breaching charity laws relating to land, a watchdog has s...

FUTURE VISION

Radical thinking for real solutions

By Rob Miller | 17 July 2024

Rob Miller argues councils need to remember their innovative past and sets out his five crucial s...

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Corporate Director of Children and Family Services

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Forged through an industrial past, Stoke-on-Trent is a city with creativity and kindness at its heart. Apply for this job

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