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APSE
APSE's annual polling generates good and bad news for councils
By Mo Baines | 11 December 2025
Highlights from APSE’s major annual Survation poll has found a divergence of views amongst the pu...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Ministers threatened with food waste refusal
By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025
Council leaders have warned ministers some local authorities will refuse to collect food waste.
REORGANISATION
The needs of people rather than maps are what most deserve our attention
By Pam Parkes | 09 December 2025
Pam Parkes fears structures are being locked into reorganisation without factoring in workforce c...
WASTE
Developing new towns maximises opportunities for recycling
By Mo Baines | 14 November 2025
With so many innovations in waste and recycling things can be done differently 'if we learn from ...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation: The next chapter in Surrey
By Ann McGauran | 13 November 2025
As Surrey prepares for unitarisation county council leader Tim Oliver tells Ann McGauran politics...
REORGANISATION
Local government reorganisation: Better late than never
By Michael Burton | 04 November 2025
While LGR is already proving a challenge, for many Labour ministers it also represents unfinished...
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
DCN is 'punching above its weight'
By Martin Ford | 08 October 2025
As Sam Chapman-Allen’s tenure as chair of the District Councils’ Network (DCN) comes to an end, h...
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
Outgoing DCN chair calls for genuine devo
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 29 September 2025
As he steps down from his DCN role, chair Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen reflects on four turbulent years...
REORGANISATION
Waste today, place tomorrow
By Hattie Parke | 25 September 2025
Hattie Parke introduces Local Partnerships' toolkit, Navigating Waste and Resource Services throu...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Judicial review threat for food waste laggards
By Dan Peters | 16 September 2025
English councils that fail to offer separate food waste collections to all homes from April could...
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