How Local Authorities Can Lead Smarter, More Inclusive Procurement
The 2025 Local Government Procurement Report ranks councils on SME, VCSE, and local spend, with strategies to boost social value in procurement.
Council tight-lipped over monitoring officer departure
12/08/2025 Hertfordshire's Three Rivers DC has declined to comment on whether it paid a financial settlement to its departed monitoring officer, Stephen Rix. |
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument
12/08/2025 Senior Whitehall mandarins have reminded councils not to use public funds to persuade residents to back their favoured reorganisation proposal. |
Seven funds to join Border to Coast
12/08/2025 Seven local government pension scheme funds have confirmed their intention to join Border to Coast Pensions Partnership. |
Homelessness minister quits to avoid becoming 'distraction'
08/08/2025 Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali has quit the Government following allegations she evicted tenants from her property and then raised the rent by hundreds of pounds. |
Not zero: Core cities admit they will fail to hit ambitious climate targets
08/08/2025 Core cities have called for billions of pounds of investment to transition to net zero after admitting they will fail to hit their ambitious targets. |
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG creates cohesion taskforce
06/08/2025 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has created a taskforce to understand drivers behind decline in community cohesion, The MJ has learnt. |
Fire and rehire advice behind director's suspension
04/08/2025 A dispute over a controversial fire and rehire tactic is at the centre of the suspension of a Worcestershire CC director, it is understood. |
Home Office recommits to closing asylum hotels
31/07/2025 The Government has insisted it ‘remains committed' to ending the use of hotels for asylum accommodation after growing public anger. |
EXCLUSIVE: Director suspended by county amid reorganisation vacuum
30/07/2025 A director remains out of the office on full pay almost three months on from being suspended, The MJ understands. |
Reform council asks officers to look at single Kent unitary
30/07/2025 Kent CC's Reform UK leader has asked officers to draw up a detailed options appraisal for a single unitary with three divisions. |
Brighton & Hove expansion 'absolutely outrageous'
28/07/2025 An MP has described Brighton & Hove City Council's proposal to expand to the east as ‘absolutely outrageous'. |
LGA hits back at Reform UK critics
24/07/2025 The Local Government Association (LGA) has insisted it is ‘more important than ever the sector has a strong single voice’ after criticism from Reform UK figures. |
Farage says Reform 'facing obstructionism'
21/07/2025 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused some council officials of obstructing the work of his councillors. |
Councils back three mainland unitaries
21/07/2025 Hampshire CC and East Hampshire DC have backed three unitary mainland councils, with the Isle of Wight remaining as a standalone authority. |
EXCLUSIVE: Crawley ponders legal response to unitary dismissal
17/07/2025 Crawley BC is considering its next steps, including a potential judicial review, after local government minister Jim McMahon dismissed its proposal for a cross-county unitary. |
EXCLUSIVE: £8m Oflog 'waste'
17/07/2025 Ministers have been warned against imposing more top-down performance indicators after it emerged millions was spent before the watchdog was scrapped. |
Employers double down on pay offer
16/07/2025 Council employers have unanimously reaffirmed their April offer of a 3.2% pay increase as ‘full and final' despite unions urging them to better their proposal. |
Lewes leader vows to fight Brighton takeover plan
14/07/2025 Lewes DC's leader has vowed to fight a Brighton & Hove City Council proposal to take over parts of her district under reorganisation plans. |
Reform's Kent finds 'millions of pounds' of savings
11/07/2025 Kent CC's Department for Local Government Efficiency (DOLGE) has identified ‘millions of pounds worth of potential savings', leader Linden Kemkaran claims. |
Devo Bill to reintroduce supplementary vote in blow to Reform
10/07/2025 The supplementary vote system will be reintroduced to elect mayors in a move that is expected to reduce the chances of success for Reform UK. |
