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Call for Government to work with councils on cohesion

02/09/2025

Pleas have been made to the Government to work with councils amid violence and confrontations between rival protesters.

Taskforce fails to recognise councils' key role in cohesion

27/08/2025

Ministers have been accused of failing to recognise the ‘vital role’ of councils in cohesion after deciding to limit a taskforce’s membership to mandarins.

Judge temporarily bans new arrivals at Epping asylum hotel

18/08/2025

A judge has ordered a hotel not to accept any new applications from asylum seekers until his ruling on Epping Forest DC's request for a temporary injunction.

Councils fear riots repeat

16/07/2025

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

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall review into summer riots will not be published

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review into the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's response to the recent far-right violence will not be published.

Councils in cohesion cash plea

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.

Stronger Things: 'Go deeper to deal with the age of division'

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.

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.

Councils warning over Prevent reforms

28/03/2023

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

Council wins battle to ban anti LGBT protests

26/11/2019

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

Only 5% of council leaders optimistic about Brexit

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.

Concern over councils' ability to cope with polls

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.

Five councils to help with Government integration plan

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.

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