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EXCLUSIVE: Councils stripped of asylum data access
WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils stripped of asylum data access

By Dan Peters | 18 December 2025

Councils have been stripped of access to information about asylum seeker accommodation after the Home Office cracked down on sharing data due to a leak, The MJ understands.

WHITEHALL

MHCLG covert intelligence gathering was 'unauthorised'

By Martin Ford | 17 December 2025

Covert intelligence gathering by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG...

UNITARY

New unitaries to be hit by right to work check duty

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2025

Councils created under reorganisation will have to carry out fresh right to work checks for all s...

WHITEHALL

Feeling of influence drops, Government survey finds

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2025

The proportion of adults who believe they can personally influence decisions affecting their area...

REGENERATION

Who is responsible for regeneration?

By Jack Shaw | 16 December 2025

The regeneration landscape is ill-defined and fragmented, says Jack Shaw. Is there a need to clar...

BUSINESS

Sector compensation claim after excess profits

By Neil Merrick | 12 December 2025

Local authorities stand to gain compensation from an anti-competition lawsuit being brought again...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Local government outcomes framework to be expanded

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 11 December 2025

Whitehall plan to broaden outcomes framework revealed.

FINANCE

Council tax prison call

By Dan Peters | 11 December 2025

England should follow Scotland and Wales in scrapping the sanction of imprisonment for non-paymen...

HOMELESSNESS

£3.5bn investment to 'end homelessness for good'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2025

A cross-government plan to ‘end homelessness for good’ by preventing it before it occurs has been...

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.

DEVOLUTION

Devolution Bill attacked by peers

By Joe Lepper | 09 December 2025

The Government’s devolution agenda risks ‘leaving communities without a meaningful voice’, Local ...

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