Dan Peters 31 July 2023

EXCLUSIVE: LGA stance on corporate peer challenges starts to shift

EXCLUSIVE: LGA stance on corporate peer challenges starts to shift image
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Elements of the Local Government Association (LGA) are privately moving towards accepting that corporate peer challenges (CPC) should be put on a statutory footing, The MJ understands.

The LGA had previously resisted making CPCs mandatory over fears councils would just quit the membership organisation.

However, there is now increased confidence in the LGA, with just two English councils currently outside core membership and the number of local authorities that have refused to have a CPC described as ‘fairly small’.

A senior local government source said: ‘I think it’s often discussed, but not necessarily openly.

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