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FINANCE
Local authorities ask for permission to raise council tax above referendum threshold
By Dan Peters | 20 January 2025
More councils have pleaded with ministers to increase their council tax above the 5% referendum l...
WHITEHALL
MPs brand local roads 'national embarrassment'
By Ellie Ames | 17 January 2025
MPs have called England’s local roads a ‘national embarrassment’ and accused the Department for T...
PLACE-MAKING
In need of a place lift
By Stephen Taylor | 15 January 2025
Stephen Taylor says there is no need to wait for the English Devolution Bill to trundle through b...
REORGANISATION
Counties' single unitary bids stir up districts
By Paul Marinko | 15 January 2025
Reorganisation tensions are heating up as several counties attempt to secure single unitaries cov...
FINANCE
National Insurance compensation is 'total shambles'
By Dan Peters | 13 January 2025
The Government’s handling of compensating councils for the increase in employers’ National Insura...
PRIVATE SECTOR
Jones: Private sector to examine Whitehall efficiency
13 January 2025
Private sector ‘experts’ could be drafted into the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Gov...
REORGANISATION
The Big Reshuffle
By Paul Marinko | 13 January 2025
Throughout the UK, local government reorganisation is gathering momentum, with significantly mor...
REORGANISATION
Fifteen county areas bid to fast-track devolution and reorganisation
By Paul Marinko | 10 January 2025
Fifteen county areas are bidding to be on Labour’s fast track for new devolution deals and local ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Special educational needs statutory override is 'abomination'
By Martin Ford | 09 January 2025
Accountancy alone will not be enough to end the ‘abomination’ of statutory overrides for special ...
REORGANISATION
McMahon: No cap on devo priority programme
By Martin Ford | 09 January 2025
There will be no cap on the number of areas included in the Government’s devolution priority prog...
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