Dan Peters 06 November 2024

Counties delay peer challenges

English county councils appear to be putting off inviting peer challenges from the Local Government Association (LGA) ahead of next year's elections.

The latest annual reports for the LGA's corporate, finance and governance peer challenge programme showed just three county councils (14%) out of 21 had participated in the last two financial years.

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