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Lloyds social housing ad branded ‘misleading’

22/08/2025

A Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) advert stating that the lender had provided £19.5bn to social housing projects has been banned by the advertising watchdog.

Scottish councils must ‘urgently’ reform, watchdog says

01/10/2024

Local authorities in Scotland must urgently transform how they work if they are to ‘sustainably maintain services’, a public finance watchdog has said.

Wales ‘a long way’ from active travel aims

19/09/2024

The Welsh Government is a long way from achieving the step-change in active travel it set out more than a decade ago, a spending watchdog has found.

Council ‘needs financial plan’ after £60m school blunder

21/08/2024

Renfrewshire Council has been urged to develop a financial plan after its miscalculation over school places was estimated to cost £60m to fix.

Schools blunder to cost council £60m

18/01/2024

A report has found that Renfrewshire Council, whose ‘gross incompetence’ left a community short of hundreds of school places, has again failed to be transparent with residents on school provision.

'Critical' to maintain progress, Dundee told

30/11/2023

A finance watchdog has said Dundee City Council is ‘well-run’ but ‘long-standing difficulties remain’ to be tackled in its improvement journey.

MPs launch inquiry into controversial watchdog

24/11/2023

An inquiry looking at the remit of the controversial Office for Local Government (Oflog) was launched by MPs today.

Levelling up ambitions blighted by delays, says NAO

17/11/2023

Ministers’ levelling up ambitions have been blighted by delays to key construction projects, with many deadlines unlikely to be met, the UK’s spending watchdog has warned.

Oflog moves to expand remit

30/10/2023

The new Office for Local Government (Oflog) watchdog has proposed to widen its scope to five new service areas.

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