Warwick District Council and Stratford-on-Avon Council have scrapped plans for a unitary authority over concerns surrounding a housing subsidiary company.
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.
With Sajid Javid paving the way for a small number of local authority restructures, the debate on council mergers has arisen once more. Solace’s Piali Das Gupta here gives a few...
Councils are looking at going beyond shared services to merging to form new authorities. What does this mean for finance and democratic accountability?
