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PLANNING
Councils spend £45m on planning appeal advice
By William Eichler | 03 May 2024
Councils spent £45m over the past three years on external legal advice relating to planning appea...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Angry LGA leaders write to Gove over Oflog league table story
By Dan Peters | 03 May 2024
The Office for Local Government’s (Oflog) ‘lack of action to correct misleading information’ in r...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
UPDATED: Tories hold Tees Valley despite heavy losses
By Dan Peters | 03 May 2024
Ben Houchen retaining the Tees Valley mayoralty for the Conservatives proved to be the party's on...
FINANCE
Council debt up by £52bn since 2010
By William Eichler | 02 May 2024
Local government debt has increased by 78% since 2010 as councils attempted to make up for cuts t...
FINANCE
Brum equal pay wait goes on
By Mark Conrad | 01 May 2024
Birmingham City Council faces a further wait before declaring its official equal pay liabilities ...
FINANCE
'Blunt tool' ranks council finances
By Martin Ford | 01 May 2024
Rushcliffe BC is the highest-ranked council in England for finance with Leeds City Council coming...
RECRUITMENT
DCS churn nears record levels
By Martin Ford | 01 May 2024
The number of changes in directors of children’s services (DCS) postholders has reached near reco...
FINANCE
Gove could launch police inquiry for Birmingham
By Heather Jameson | 01 May 2024
Reports the levelling up secretary could send a police chief in to investigate financial mismanag...
FINANCE
Call for powers to back up funeral director inspections
By Martin Ford | 01 May 2024
Councils have said they ‘urgently’ need more powers and resources after being tasked with inspect...
FINANCE
Council incurs £3.7m overspend on IT system
By Ellie Ames | 01 May 2024
Vale of Glamorgan Council took more than a year longer than planned to install a new IT system, l...
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