Reorganisation

By Mark Conrad | 20 May 2024

Wokingham BC’s ruling Lib Dems have hit back at former local government minister Sir John Redwood...

What next for unitarisation?

By Steve Leach | 30 April 2024

Ahead of the Mayoral elections, Steve Leach and Colin Copus ask if the proliferation of combined ...

HEALTH

How to build a healthy economy

By Heather Jameson | 08 April 2024

Social care, often seen as a millstone for councils facing financial challenges, has been turned ...

WHITEHALL

Local government loses 'strongest advocate' Rowsell

By Martin Ford | 22 March 2024

Tributes have been paid across the local government sector following the sudden death of Paul Row...

FINANCE

Wanted: fiscal reform not fiscal frustration

By Heather Jameson | 20 March 2024

'To bemoan any Government’s inability to take difficult political decisions when it has been in p...

FINANCE

Let's start the debate on what the nation wants councils to do

By Cllr Martin Tett | 08 March 2024

Local government cannot go on delivering more and more for less and less, says leader of Buckingh...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Audit Commission fears continue to haunt Oflog

By Dan Peters | 26 February 2024

A senior sector figure has expressed concerns about the Office for Local Government’s (Oflog) dir...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The search for the Holy Grail of growth

By Michael Burton | 19 February 2024

In an exclusive interview, Lord Heseltine, the longstanding advocate of elected mayors, tells Mic...

SOCIAL CARE

Government 'stands ready to speak' to any council on funding

By Simon Hoare | 18 December 2023

Local government minister Simon Hoare says the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement de...

REORGANISATION

Five unitaries moot devolution deal

By Martin Ford | 18 December 2023

A ‘non-binding expression of interest’ is expected to be submitted to the Government in February.

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