Staying Safe in Local Elections: Challenges and support for candidates
With local elections nearing, rising abuse fears are deterring candidates - this analysis explores risks, definitions, and new guidance to support safer campaigning.
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. |
