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INVESTMENT
SOLACE: Investment key to financial resilience
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025
The case was made for achieving financial resilience through investment and regeneration at the S...
PLANNING
PAC: 'Drought of planners' is 'serious problem'
17 October 2025
MPs are ‘unconvinced’ the Government is addressing the ‘lack of staffing capacity and capability ...
COMBINED AUTHORITY
New strategic authorities should 'embrace' disagreement
By Paul Marinko | 17 October 2025
Areas moving towards devolution deals have been advised to ‘embrace’ inevitable disagreement betw...
REORGANISATION
SOLACE: Reorganisation work must start now
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2025
Councils have been urged to begin to ‘boring but practical' work on Local Government Reorganisati...
WORKFORCE
Kerswell hands in resignation
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Croydon LBC chief executive Katherine Kerswell has handed in her resignation five years after joi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA: Costs pushing many to financial brink
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Emergency government bailout agreements for councils are at risk of becoming ‘normalised’ as cost...
COHESION
Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels
By By Dan Peters | 16 October 2025
Cohesion is ‘core to what we do in local government’, the president of senior officers’ group Sol...
FINANCE
Predictions of low take up for retention pooling scheme
By Joe Lepper | 16 October 2025
Take up of a government invitation to councils to join the business rates retention pooling schem...
SOLACE
SOLACE: Funding fails to offset the years of lost cash, claims president
By Heather Jameson | 16 October 2025
Central government funding for regeneration is positive but ‘can only go so far in offsetting the...
FINANCE
Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets
By Ann McGauran | 16 October 2025
The impact of reorganisation and the fair funding review will ‘throw all the cards up in the air’...
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Service Director – Children's Social Care
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