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POLICY AND POLITICS
Think-tank warning over social housing reforms
By Joe Lepper | 11 June 2026
Historically low grant funding to councils threatens to derail the Government’s social housing reforms, a think-tank has warned.
ANGELA RAYNER
Rayner calls for care worker rethink
By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026
Ex-local government secretary Angela Rayner has urged the Government to rethink plans to change i...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Home Office warned over asylum homelessness risk
By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026
The Government risks undermining its own ambition to cut homelessness unless it urgently strength...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Regional trade envoy call
By Joe Lepper | 10 June 2026
Mayoral strategic authorities (MSAs) should work with the Government to recruit regional trade en...
REORGANISATION
EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs lobby Government over severance payment threshold
By Dan Peters | 10 June 2026
Council chiefs have been lobbying the Government to relax the requirements around special severan...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Minister urges councils to hand services to residents
By Neil Merrick | 09 June 2026
Placing communities in charge of services will help cut costs and reduce the chance of council fa...
LEADERSHIP
Solace steps up lobbying over district exclusion from leadership event
By Dan Peters | 08 June 2026
The organisation representing senior officers has stepped up its lobbying after a Cabinet Office ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Call for fiscal devolution to be based on clear criteria
By Neil Merrick | 08 June 2026
Fiscal devolution must be based around local taxes or revenue rather than the existing grant syst...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Social housing waiting lists will take more than 100 years to clear
By William Eichler | 08 June 2026
England’s social housing waiting lists will take 119 years to clear at the current pace of houseb...
POLICY AND POLITICS
MPs scold Home Office over lack of council involvement in asylum
By Dan Peters | 05 June 2026
Local authorities still lack a ‘meaningful say’ in asylum accommodation decisions, a cross-party ...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Councils question financial sustainability and timescales of SEND reforms
By Joe Lepper | 05 June 2026
Councils have raised a raft of concerns around the Government’s plans to overhaul the special edu...
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