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CLIMATE CHANGE
Is funding meeting councils' needs on decarbonationisation?
By Madeleine Gabriel | 10 August 2021
Analysis by Nesta raises some questions about the effectiveness of competitive grant funding sche...
REORGANISATION
Ryedale DC rejects possible challenge on unitary plan
By Ann McGauran | 05 August 2021
Ryedale DC will not explore the option of legally challenging the Government’s decision to replac...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
Reorganisation: modernise or be damned
By Heather Jameson | 28 July 2021
The distraction of reorganisation may be a step too far. Or it may be the big bang needed to tra...
REORGANISATION
Eyeing up the horizon on reorganisation
By Heather Jameson | 27 July 2021
Heather Jameson looks at the latest round of reorganisation and asks: will it embolden councils t...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Devolution is back on the table
By Cllr John Fuller | 27 July 2021
It's time to continue building strong partnerships across the economic, real-life geographies aro...
REORGANISATION
Jenrick announces unitary deals
By Heather Jameson | 22 July 2021
North Yorkshire and Somerset CCs have been given the go ahead to become single unitary councils w...
PAY
Commission calls for funding reset
By Ann McGauran | 20 July 2021
Local government needs a ‘funding floor’ at an agreed percentage of national income, a report on ...
DEVOLUTION
Derbyshire councils plan 'alternative' to unitaries
By Martin Ford | 12 July 2021
Councils in Derbyshire have drawn up plans to find a ‘viable alternative’ to carving up the count...
FINANCE
Surrey councils to share management
By Dan Peters | 07 July 2021
Guildford and Waverley BCs have agreed to share a single senior management team, including a chie...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Counties can do the strategic and the local
By Cllr Tim Oliver | 05 July 2021
The strategic abilities of local government to deliver national priorities locally and the real l...
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