16/07/2025

Councils fear a repeat of last summer's riots without ‘significant government investment in community cohesion', a report has found.

14/11/2024

An internal Whitehall review into the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's response to the recent far-right violence will not be published.

10/10/2024

Councils have made a plea to the Government for powers and resources to bolster community cohesion in the face of the ongoing threat of extremism.

04/06/2024

Using community power to tackle polarisation requires ‘going deeper and deeper until some of the falsehoods clear out’, New Local’s Stronger Things has heard.

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.

28/03/2023

Councils have raised serious concerns about the Government’s proposed Prevent counter-extremism strategy reforms.

26/11/2019

Birmingham City Council has won a court battle to permanently ban anti-LGBT protests outside a local primary school.

29/10/2019

Councils are increasingly downbeat about the impact of Brexit, with nearly three quarters (71%) of chiefs expecting it to have a ‘negative’ or ‘very negative’ impact on their local economy.

17/04/2019

Council chiefs have raised concerns with Government about the sector’s capacity to run EU elections so close on the heels of local polls.

14/03/2018

The Government will work with five local authorities to develop integration plans as it develops a national strategy for England, it has announced today.