Underfunding, Not Demand, Is Breaking SEND
Jack Lowman, Sense, says properly funding the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is vital for disabled children to get the best start.
Council buys rail transport operator
26/08/2025 Dudley Council has bought the operators of Coventry's fledgling rail transport system. |
Kent reassurance after staff DOGE concerns
22/08/2025 Reform-run Kent CC (KCC) has reassured employees that any decisions to share data with the party’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be ‘lawful, reasonable and proportionate’. |
Farage: Put pressure on councils to follow Epping Forest
20/08/2025 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged people to 'put pressure' on councils to go to court after a High Court ruling. |
Council wins temporary injunction over asylum hotel
19/08/2025 Asylum seekers are to be removed from an Essex hotel that has became the focus of protests this summer. |
Reform UK: LGA must show its value to councils
15/08/2025 Reform UK will review its decision to have a group at the LGA after spending time judging the organisation's worth, the party's group leader has said. |
EXCLUSIVE: LGA urged to consider northern office
14/08/2025 Senior Local Government Association (LGA) figures have urged the organisation to consider opening a UK office outside London. |
Gov reluctant to interfere with successful strategic authority boundaries
14/08/2025 The Government has suggested it will not want to rip up existing strategic authority boundaries where the organisations are ‘working well'. |
EXCLUSIVE: McMahon to meet Sheffield leaders about committee abolition
13/08/2025 Minister Jim McMahon has committed to meeting with Sheffield's political group leaders to discuss the Government's proposed abolition of the committee system. |
Calls for AI ethics and data ethics boards
13/08/2025 Calls have been made for all councils to form artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and data ethics boards. |
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'. |
