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POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: DWP establishes devolution directorate
By Dan Peters | 30 October 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) policy group has established a devolution directorate.
POLICY AND POLITICS
Four councils reject planning rule change
By Dan Peters | 30 October 2026
Four English councils have rejected government reforms transferring planning decisions from elect...
REORGANISATION
April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation
By Dan Peters | 29 October 2026
Ministers have insisted Whitehall is ‘committed to seeing local government reorganisation through...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Emergency preparedness must go beyond survival kits
By Heather Jameson | 29 October 2026
Effective community resilience requires local leadership, inclusive emergency planning and truste...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Councils must be 'convenors' on rough sleeping, says LGA chair after No10 summit
By Neil Merrick | 27 October 2026
The chair of the Local Government Association has called on councils to act as ‘convenors’ after ...
WHITEHALL
Government told of rising complaints at Dudley after Best Value exit
By Dan Peters | 27 October 2026
Dudley MBC councillors will be asked to sign a pledge next week committing them to ‘demonstrate r...
PLANNING
Plan submission deadline extended
By Neil Merrick | 26 October 2026
Councils drawing up local development plans under old regulations have been given an extra three ...
DEVOLUTION
Why devolution needs locality
By Julia Smith | 22 October 2026
Julia Smith says Blaby DC sees every day the value of working closely with local people, and the ...
POLICY
Pervasive centralism continues
By Ian Miller | 22 October 2026
A lack of progress with the MHCLG’s review of fees and charges, and a conflict between changes to...
REWIRING LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Local state, national ambition
By Helen Bailey | 22 October 2026
In the latest in a series of articles looking at a reimagined role for local government in a rewi...
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