Multi-year, cross-departmental funding commitments will be a critical part of new place-based approaches if the over-centralisation and culture clashes of the past are to be avoided, a think-tank has...
Three perspectives on the state and potential of England’s devolution journey kicked off the breakout session panels at this year’s PF Live in Birmingham.
The scale of Woking Borough Council’s initial bailout will be finalised in September, the government said as it put rival proposals for redrawing local government boundaries in Surrey out to...
Councils may be able to borrow or make flexible use of capital receipts to foot the bill for local government reorganisation, the government has confirmed.
Plans to roll out strategic authorities across England, sweeping away dozens of district councils and years of careful incremental change, have sparked a flurry of activity across the sector as...
Plans to roll out mayoral authorities across the country must be accompanied by beefed up scrutiny arrangements to hold powerful mayors to account, a think-tank has said.
Rushing through reorganisation proposals amid widespread apathy and misunderstanding risks exacerbating the crisis of trust in local government, a leading sector think-tank has warned.
Portsmouth City Council is calling on ministers to leave it out of local government reorganisation plans, saying it is a financially stable authority and can already meet the needs of its communities.
Local authorities are continuing to press for millions of pounds of council debt to be written off as part of plans for local government reorganisation despite the government’s insistence that there...
Six new areas are set to become mayoral strategic authorities by next May as part of plans for sweeping changes of the local government map in England.
