Political battle over National Care Service
25/04/2024 Competing visions of the future of social care have been set out by Labour and the Conservatives as they prepare for a General Election. |
Social housing tests could heavily impact London
25/04/2024 London boroughs are likely to be most heavily impacted by the Government’s proposed UK connection test for social housing. |
Gove open to giving mayors Whitehall voice
23/04/2024 Local government secretary Michael Gove has not ruled out a ‘formal structure’ for mayors to work more closely with central government. |
Wirral assurance panel ‘no longer required’
19/04/2024 Wirral MBC’s Independent Assurance Panel (IAP) has officially stood down after declaring it was ‘no longer required’. |
Watchdog tells Falkirk to confront 'difficult decisions'
17/04/2024 Falkirk Council faces ‘difficult decisions’ to bridge a budget gap of tens of millions, according to Audit Scotland. |
EXCLUSIVE: Demand surges for UASC age assessments
12/04/2024 Councils are struggling to cope with demand for age assessments of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) as record numbers arrive once again in Kent. |
Grant Thornton fined over pension audit
08/04/2024 Grant Thornton has been fined by the Financial Reporting Council for ‘failures’ in its audit of an unnamed local authority’s pension fund. |
Parties draw battlelines for local elections
28/03/2024 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given a speech in Dudley today following campaign launches by the Conservatives and Lib Dems. |
Councils 'struggling' to tackle cohesion threats
25/03/2024 Councils are struggling to tackle threats to social cohesion due to a lack of support from central government, according to a major new review. |
Scottish councils in tax U-turn
25/03/2024 Argyll and Bute and Inverclyde councils had both voted to raise tax in defiance of the Scottish Government's efforts to secure a nationwide freeze. |
Cyber attack disruption to last weeks
18/03/2024 Leicester City Council expects disruption caused by a recent Cyber attack on the authority to continue until the end of the month. |
Slough chief to stand down
15/03/2024 Slough BC’s chief executive Stephen Brown is to stand down, the authority has announced. |
Northumberland has ‘further to go’
13/03/2024 Northumberland CC has ‘further to go’ despite progress on its improvement journey, a report has found. |
City council hit by Cyber attack
11/03/2024 IT and phone systems at Leicester City Council remain shut down this week following a cyber incident |
Deprivation of Liberty backlog 'may never be eradicated'
08/03/2024 A report has called for councils to get more resources to tackle the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlog. |
Watchdog warning over Moray's funding gap
07/03/2024 Moray Council must act quickly to shore up its finances, Audit Scotland has warned. |
Budget: Boost for preventative services
06/03/2024 Funding for preventative services has been announced as part of the Spring Budget in an attempt to relieve local government’s demand pressures. |
Council funding crisis ‘existential’
01/03/2024 Local government’s funding crisis threatens to derail ambitions to level up the north of England, it has been claimed. |
More areas get level four devolution powers
01/03/2024 West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the Liverpool city region will all receive level four devolved powers, local government secretary Michael Gove has announced. |
National care service overhaul fails to charm councils
28/02/2024 Councils in Scotland remain unconvinced by proposals to create a national care service. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.