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FINANCE
Plea for Rayner to write off £5.7bn Surrey debt ahead of reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 13 February 2025
The Government should write off the £5.7bn of debt facing Surrey’s districts to facilitate reorga...
REORGANISATION
Clarify the costs
By Tracy Bingham | 12 February 2025
To be the best they can be, the new unitary councils should be designed with up-to-date assessmen...
REORGANISATION
Sector brain drain warning amid reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 12 February 2025
Local government reorganisation could lead to a sector brain drain, senior figures have warned.
POLITICS
Housing: This time it's personal
By Martin Ford | 12 February 2025
Martin Ford sat down with the Housing, Communities and Local Government committee’s new chair Flo...
REORGANISATION
Talks over potential London link up for Slough
By Dan Peters | 12 February 2025
Slough BC (SBC) could merge with a west London borough or boroughs under one of the plans being c...
FINANCE
Funding crisis requires radicalism, MPs told
By Martin Ford | 11 February 2025
A more 'radical' approach is required from the Government to turn around the financial crisis fac...
REORGANISATION
London Councils pushes back on call to halve number of boroughs
By Joe Lepper | 11 February 2025
London Councils has hit back after the Taxpayers' Alliance campaign group called for the number o...
DEVOLUTION
The deal with devo
By Heather Jameson | 11 February 2025
Heather Jameson looks at the areas that will get devolution deals, but finds that the real story ...
FINANCE
Financial resilience can't be kept waiting much longer
By Ian Miller | 11 February 2025
Unitary and county councils queuing up for exceptional financial support demonstrates that the ov...
REORGANISATION
A magic population number for local government is a fallacy
By Colin Copus | 10 February 2025
The Government is progressing with a centralisation agenda dividing local government into deliver...
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- Impact of ICB cuts leads councils to moot legal challenge
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- Scottish councils reject reorganisation
Associate Director – Acquisitions, Compliance & Maintenance
£111,579 - £122,596
Shape Dudley’s future through bold investment, safe homes and transformational estate leadership. Apply for this job
Associate Director – Streetscene
£96,064 - £107,932
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking an exceptional leader to join our senior leadership team as Associate Director – Streetscene Apply for this job
Executive Director of Housing
£172,260 - £178,848
We will look to you to strengthen regulatory readiness, compliance and building safety; improve repairs Apply for this job
- Impact of ICB cuts leads councils to moot legal challenge
- EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Basildon pauses chief executive search
- EXCLUSIVE: Councils told to 'avoid publicity' over business rates refunds
- Rewiring the state: The case for a 50 to state pension age labour market measure
- Scottish councils reject reorganisation
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