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Government skipped own cost review of council mergers
REORGANISATION

Government skipped own cost review of council mergers

By William Eichler | 29 August 2025

The Government did not conduct its own assessment of the costs of local government reorganisation, the BBC has revealed.

REORGANISATION

Local Government Reorganisation: Why services matters more than boundaries

By By Iain Murray | 28 August 2025

Local government reorganisation, says Iain Murray. But without integration across health, social ...

PROCUREMENT

Transforming procurement

By Karen Bradford | 18 August 2025

Karen Bradford looks at how to unlock the value of procurement as a strategic tool for local gove...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Reshaping the landscape for our children

By Andy Smith | 15 August 2025

As children’s services face a series of overlapping reforms – not least local government reorgani...

REORGANISATION

Suffolk CC opposition: Maintain roads instead of splashing out on reorganisation publicity

By Dan Peters | 15 August 2025

Suffolk CC has spent around £100,000 of taxpayers’ money promoting a single county unitary to res...

REORGANISATION

Rutland leader weighing options after confidence vote survival

By Joe Lepper | 14 August 2025

Rutland CC’s leader has pledged to consider alternative reorganisation plans after surviving a no...

DEVOLUTION

EXCLUSIVE: Government reluctant to interfere with successful strategic authority boundaries

By Dan Peters | 14 August 2025

The Government has suggested it will not want to rip up existing strategic authority boundaries w...

DEVOLUTION

Cornwall charts its own devo course

By Heather Jameson | 13 August 2025

Cornwall Council resisted the conventional route to devolution, striking its own deal without a m...

UNIONS

The lost art of union relations

By Pam Parkes | 13 August 2025

Working with unions has changed. For councils to thrive through the coming changes, they will nee...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025

Senior Whitehall mandarins have reminded councils not to use public funds to persuade residents t...

REORGANISATION

Three unitary plan dismissed as 'unworkable' by opponents

By William Eichler | 08 August 2025

Lower-tier council leaders in Suffolk have published local government reorganisation proposals fo...

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