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Reform-controlled county agrees to back two unitary model

10/07/2025

Reform-controlled Derbyshire CC has agreed to back a two unitary model with a north south configuration.

St Helens peer challenge expected to conclude council has 'transformed'

01/04/2025

St Helens MBC's corporate peer challenge is expected to conclude the council has been ‘transformed over the past five years'.

Birmingham's post Oracle scrutiny portal 'should help to better understand risks'

20/03/2025

A new online information site for scrutiny teams at Birmingham CC should lead to a better understanding of risk after the Oracle IT scandal, councillor says.

'Devil in the details' of welfare reform plans, says SIGOMA

19/03/2025

The ‘devil will be in the details' of the Government's proposed reforms to welfare, says SIGOMA leader.

Leicestershire pushes for 'transparent' talks with districts on reorganisation

27/02/2025

District councils have ‘excluded' Leicestershire CC from meetings and discussions about future plans for reorganisation.

State will operate 'more like a start-up'

10/12/2024

The launch of a £100m fund to pioneer public sector reform and deliver the Government's Plan for Change will see the state operate ‘more like a start-up', a minister has pledged.

Budget: Chancellor promises to permanently lower business rates

30/10/2024

The chancellor prioritised delivering permanently lower business rates from 2026-27 in the Budget by lowering multipliers for retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties.

Regional growth initiatives likely to 'fall over next year' without UKSPF clarity

12/09/2024

Regional growth initiatives are likely to ‘fall over next year' unless the Government clarifies the future of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), a combined authority chief has warned.

King's Speech: OBR handed beefed-up scrutiny role

17/07/2024

The Government has put fiscal stability in the form of a Budget Responsibility Bill at the heart of the King's Speech.

Stronger Things: 'Go deeper to deal with the age of division'

04/06/2024

Using community power to tackle polarisation requires ‘going deeper and deeper until some of the falsehoods clear out’, New Local’s Stronger Things has heard.

Dashboard compares healthy life expectancy across councils

10/04/2024

A data tool to compare healthy life expectancy across all councils in England has been launched by The Health Foundation.

PAC: New housing continues to be built in high risk areas

17/01/2024

More than half of councils rarely or never inspect a new housing development to check compliance with flood risk planning conditions, new PAC report says.

NCASC: Social care 'doing a good job' getting investment

01/12/2023

Those working in adult social care are ‘already doing a very good job at getting investment and commitments to reform’, government minister Helen Whately says.

Town halls still battling cost hikes

24/11/2023

Councils are continuing to battle with the impact of cost increases on budgets despite consumer inflation falling, says leader of England’s county treasurers.

Chiefs' new professional development framework launched

17/10/2023

The first version of a new professional development framework to keep local government chief executives ‘ahead of the game’ has been launched.

Gove pledges to halt council four-day weeks

02/10/2023

Michael Gove has pledged to stop local authorities from implementing a four-day week and said councils could face budget cuts if they adopt one.

Kensington & Chelsea launches standards drawn up with residents

28/09/2023

Kensington and Chelsea LBC has become the first council to publish service standards co-designed with residents as part of its continuing response to the Grenfell tragedy.

Call for national mental health support team rollout

21/09/2023

A top children’s services director has called for the ‘very highly regarded’ mental health support teams (MHST) model to be rolled out across the country.

Government rejects call for local net zero delivery duty

06/06/2023

The Government has rejected calls from the Liberal Democrats for local authorities to have a statutory duty to deliver net zero.

MP hits out at council's proposals to extend four-day trial

15/05/2023

A Conservative MP hit out at proposals by a council to approve an extension to a four-day week after a trial found improvements to productivity and wellbeing.

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LGOF: Will it work?

Dr Jonathan Carr-West, LGIU, discusses the Local Government Outcomes Framework (LGOF), the latest instalment in the history of local government accountability.
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