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POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Standards shake-up
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Government privately reaffirms commitment to legislative reforms to standards originally proposed under Starmer regime.
FINANCE
Call for long-term EFS plan
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
The Government must turn exceptional financial support (EFS) into a ‘managed recovery regime rath...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Labour-led Brent and Barking and Dagenham miss out on first round of London homes cash
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Labour-led Brent and Barking & Dagenham LBCs are understood to have failed to get anything from t...
ANGELA RAYNER
Rayner expected to send in commissioners to Bedford BC
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
Communities secretary Angela Rayner has indicated that the Government is minded to appoint commis...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Social care vacancies at decade low but recruitment growth slows
By William Eichler | 14 October 2026
Growth in the adult social care workforce in England is occurring at its slowest rate in four yea...
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
By Dan Peters | 14 October 2026
Council chief executives have warned Whitehall that local authorities must be treated as equal pa...
DEVOLUTION
First, rewire the place, then turn the lights on
By Rob Huntington | 14 October 2026
From Trumpton’s tangled wires to today’s fragmented public services, local government must join u...
LGA
LGA forges 'strategic partnership' with No10 North
By Martin Ford | 13 October 2026
The Local Government Association (LGA) is in talks with No10 North on developing a ‘strategic par...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Transforming children's services through devo
By Emmet Regan | 13 October 2026
Emmet Regan explores whether Rewiring the State can deliver meaningful change for those who depen...
POLICY AND POLITICS
'A denial of democracy'
By Heather Jameson | 08 October 2026
Commissioner-led intervention is ‘problematic’ and a ‘denial of local democracy’, the chief execu...
TRANSFORMATION
ICB mergers delayed due to reorganisation review
By Lee Peart | 08 October 2026
The deadline for decisions on future Integrated Care Board (ICB) footprints has been extended due...
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