VE Day: Council duties under the Armed Forces Covenant
As we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Geoff Wild, Legal & Governance Consultant, looks at the duties of councils under the Armed Forces Covenant.
Sandwell calls for action on test shortage
06/01/2022 A council has written to ministers after it was forced to step in to alleviate a shortage of COVID testing kits. |
LEPs need capacity boost to improve delivery, research finds
07/09/2020 Local enterprise partnerships (LEP) would be better at delivering large-scale capital projects if they had more capacity, independent research for the Government has found. |
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Javid urges reorganisation and devolution post-COVID
23/06/2020 Council tax reform and local government reorganisation should both play a part in the post COVID economic recovery, former communities secretary Sajid Javid has said. |
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Javid pledges ‘decade of renewal’ in next Budget
07/01/2020 The chancellor has pledged to use his first Budget to ‘unleash’ Britain’s potential and usher in a ‘decade of renewal’. |
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Javid promises devolution White Paper
30/09/2019 A new White Paper to more powers to local areas was announced in the Chancellor’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today. |
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Whitehall to tackle illegal traveller sites
07/02/2019 The home secretary has announced that he is considering making it a criminal offence for travellers to set up camps on land they should not be on - despite a shortage of legal sites. |
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Brokenshire announces Northamptonshire commissioners
09/05/2018 New local government secretary James Brokenshire has today announced the two commissioners appointed to help rescue troubled Northamptonshire CC. |
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James Brokenshire replaces Javid as local government secretary
30/04/2018 James Brokenshire has been appointed new secretary of state for housing, communities and local government after Sajid Javid was named as the new home secretary. |
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Bucks residents back two unitaries
19/04/2018 Two out of three Buckinghamshire residents support a two-unitary option for the county, according to a newly-published telephone survey. |
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Javid announces £30m to tackle homelessness
03/04/2018 The communities secretary Sajid Javid announced last Friday a new £30m fund to support local authorities with high numbers of people sleeping rough. |
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Javid calls for unitary proposals from Northamptonshire councils
27/03/2018 Councils in Northamptonshire have been invited to submit proposals for unitary structures to replace the existing 2-tier system across the county. |
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Javid plans intervention into crisis-hit Northants
27/03/2018 Local government secretary Sajid Javid has bowed to the inevitable and outlined plans for commissioners to run Northamptonshire CC amid concerns over the county’s sustainability. |
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Three councils face intervention over local plans
26/03/2018 Three councils are facing government intervention over their failure to produce a local plan. |
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Javid approves creation of new district council
23/03/2018 Two Somerset councils have been given ministerial approval to merge together to form one new single council. |
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Javid orders review after second council payment error
20/03/2018 The Government has ordered a review after being forced to admit a second mistake in as many months in the way it calculates council payments. |
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Javid latest MP to receive 'punish a Muslim' letter
16/03/2018 Local government secretary Sajid Javid has become the fifth politician to receive a hate-filled anti-Muslim letter. |
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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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Call for Javid to resign after 'misleading' House of Commons
06/02/2018 Shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne has demanded the resignation of his counterpart Sajid Javid after the minister admitted he knew the data behind the provisional finance settlement was wrong. |
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Javid finds extra £166m in final settlement
06/02/2018 Local government secretary Sajid Javid has found an additional £166m to ease spending pressures in social care and rural areas in the final 2018/19 settlement. |
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Inspectors sent in to probe Northamptonshire Council's finances
09/01/2018 Local government secretary Sajid Javid has ordered a best value inspection of Conservative-led Northamptonshire CC amid continuing concerns over its financial management and corporate governance. |
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Councils win high-value home reprieve
20/12/2017 Local authorities will not be forced to sell high-value council homes until at least April 2019 after lobbying from the sector. |
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Review highlights fire safety failings
18/12/2017 Scores of buildings do not have up-to-date arrangements for fire safety, an independent review has found. |
