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27 May 22
An MP has asked the government for clarity on where ‘levelling up’ money is being distributed around the UK, suggesting the array of funding pots makes it “difficult, if not impossible” to see which...
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22 Mar 22
Larger councils do not necessarily perform more efficiently than smaller ones, and the best outcomes are achieved through working in partnership, according to a new report.
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3 Feb 22
The government has announced more details on how it plans to simplify the funding landscape for areas looking to boost economic development following criticism from local government of the current...
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20 Oct 21
The government has said it will set up a new ‘local net zero forum’ to support councils in contributing to the national ambition of reaching net zero emissions.
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16 Jul 21
After prime minister Boris Johnson spoke of ‘catch up ketchup’ in his detail-light ‘levelling up’ speech in Coventry, Localis head of research Joe Fyans asks if devolution and local leadership can...
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7 Jul 21
Councils need to stop waiting for rules from central government and start working innovatively to transform their services and adapt to the future, a Public Finance Live 2021 panel heard.
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18 Feb 21
Sedgemoor District Council leader Duncan McGinty makes the case for a two-unitary solution to Somerset’s upcoming reorganisation of local government structures.
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11 Feb 20
The March Budget must kick off with a devolution parliament if the government is to even begin to repair the damage caused by centralisation, argues Luke Raikes of IPPR North.
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27 Jan 20
Thousands of pubs in the UK will be given a business rates discount of £1,000 from April, the government has announced.
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4 Nov 19
Local authorities must raise their information game, to improve insight and better read the future for the benefit of local residents
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15 May 19
A reconfigured relationship between central and local government is needed to prevent Britain “sleepwalking into a second lost decade”, a think-tank has said.
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24 Apr 19
Our strategic authorities and city regions should be given a seat at the table of international trade for the sake of delivering place-prosperity, argues Localis’s Joe Fyans.
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5 Feb 19
UK cities should be given new powers to improve social mobility and wellbeing post-Brexit, according to umbrella group Key Cities.
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1 Feb 18
Local people have expertise and entrepreneurial flair. Councils should make the most of it, says Vidhya Alakeson of Power to Change.
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9 Jun 17
Local government finances face very different fortunes in Australia than they do in the UK. But in both, common challenges have prompted the same fundamental questions
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5 May 17
In Barking and Dagenham a strategic and long-term review of services is helping the council adapt to the new funding reality
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10 Feb 17
Councils in Dorset have made a formal request to the government to radically restructure the system of local government in the county.
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23 Jan 17
As Milton Keynes turns 50, city leaders are considering how to take this thriving city forward
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17 Nov 16
As many plans for council restructures are considered, the evidence shows basing plans on county boundaries would bring the greatest savings and support public sector reform
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12 Apr 16
Tower Hamlets council remains “some way off” from having its full powers returned following a Whitehall intervention, local government secretary Greg Clark has said.
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28 Jul 15
The Local Government Association has announced that Mark Lloyd, the current chief executive at Cambridgeshire County Council, is to take its top leadership role.
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16 Jun 15
CIPFA has joined with organisations including London Councils, Westminster Council and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce to call for local government to retain more of business rates as part...
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24 Apr 15
Public sector organisations like councils and colleges can do much to work with suppliers on their doorstep and stimulate local economies. In Lancashire work is underway to ‘repatriate’...
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10 Apr 15
Local authorities faced some unenviable choices when Council Tax Benefit was devolved to town halls. Evidence is now emerging of the impact of the reforms.
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23 Mar 15
International evidence has shown that devolution of welfare-to-work schemes to local authorities can improve services – if funding and accountability challenges can be overcome.