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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 ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Councils' concerns over access to holiday schemes

By Joe Lepper | 09 December 2025

Councils are concerned that the most vulnerable families are missing out on benefits of their hol...

WHITEHALL

Grey belt countryside warning

By Joe Lepper | 07 December 2025

Almost nine in 10 grey belt developments approved by the Government rather than councils over the...

DEVOLUTION

Future Forum North: Time for mayors to deliver

By Martin Ford | 05 December 2025

Now is the time for mayors to deliver, the newly-appointed envoy for the Northern Growth Corridor...

WHITEHALL

Complex Whitehall funding system marred pandemic support, inquiry hears

By Joe Lepper | 05 December 2025

Councils’ delivery of pandemic support schemes was marred by Whitehall’s complex funding system a...

ASYLUM

Backlash warning over asylum decentralisation

By Joe Lepper | 04 December 2025

Councils fear a backlash from far-right activists if responsibility for housing asylum seekers wa...

WHITEHALL

There is a need for change within Whitehall itself

By Dr Catherine Howe | 03 December 2025

Catherine Howe says the people driving change in local places are not turning the same focus on t...

HR

Sector uncertainty of employment rights Bill

By Paul Marinko | 02 December 2025

DEVOLUTION

Kent in 'devolution desert' warning

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2025

All 14 of Kent’s council leaders have warned ministers of the risk of the county becoming a ‘devo...

WHITEHALL

Government moves to strengthen council inquiries

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2025

A Government amendment was yesterday introduced to the Hillsborough law to strengthen local autho...