Title
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
Moving from place-based budget pilots to mainstream practice
By Dr Simon Kaye | 16 December 2025
The Treasury must back real place-based budgets – not just another Red Book annex, warns Dr Simon Kaye.
FINANCE
A taxing dilemma
By Paul Marinko | 27 August 2025
Councils calling for council tax reform should be careful what they wish for, writes Paul Marinko
INVESTMENT
Green Book Review: Evolution not revolution for local investment
By Simon Dancer | 19 June 2025
Treasury's latest review of the Green Book holds the line on orthodoxy but offers cautious encour...
REORGANISATION
Three years left to live?
By Dan Peters | 02 June 2025
Reorganisation proposals for Surrey have sparked divisions, even between councils with the same p...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Rewriting the Green Book
By Martin Ford | 07 April 2025
With a Government review of the Treasury’s investment Green Book under way, Martin Ford looks at ...
FINANCE
Whole government response required to secure councils' finances
By Ann McGauran | 28 February 2025
Making councils financially sustainable requires a whole government response led by the Ministry ...
REGENERATION
Corridor of Uncertainty
By David Blackman | 19 February 2025
Confirmed during the chancellor’s recent announcement, the latest revival of the Oxford to Cambri...
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...
REGENERATION
Regeneration: 'Revise the rule book'
By By Heather Jameson | 04 December 2024
The Treasury should look again at its Green Book rules to help local authorities, a council chief...
FINANCE
Searching for clarity
By Sir Bob Neill | 24 October 2024
A big week is coming up at Westminster – but what is in it for local government, asks Sir Bob Neill.
GENERAL ELECTION
As ever the challenge will be execution
By By Ben Page | 09 July 2024
If parties campaign in poetry and govern in prose, after a thrilling campaign, the fun starts her...
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