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Ministers propose cancelling Surrey CC elections again
17/06/2025 Ministers have proposed cancelling Surrey CC elections for a second year as they launched a consultation on reorganisation options for the county. |
Think-tank calls for Glasgow mayor
16/06/2025 Glasgow is at risk of falling behind England’s cities unless it receives a devolution deal and a directly elected city region mayor, Centre for Cities warns. |
Hollinrake warning over DOGE request
13/06/2025 Requests for data by Reform UK’s DOGE unit are a ‘cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’, shadow levelling up secretary Kevin Hollinrake has warned information commissioner John Edwards. |
Minister suggests commissioners needed for Croydon
13/06/2025 Minister Jim McMahon has suggested escalating Croydon LBC’s statutory intervention to a commissioner-led model to ensure it can ‘achieve sustained change at the pace needed’. |
Crawley pauses on West Sussex reorganisation
11/06/2025 West Sussex’s Crawley BC will wait for ministers to decide on Surrey’s reorganisation proposals before giving any views on unitarisation in its own county, The MJ understands. |
Spending Review: Green Book reforms revealed
11/06/2025 The Treasury has announced reforms to guidance that provides a framework for how public sector organisations evaluate policies, programmes and projects. |
Reorganisation savings warning
10/06/2025 The most senior district councillor in the country has warned it could take up to a decade before savings from local government reorganisation are achieved. |
AI use increases but barriers remain
10/06/2025 Artificial intelligence (AI) use among councils is increasing, but one in 10 are still not using any forms of the technology, a survey has found. |
EXCLUSIVE: Coventry equal pay bill could be more than £30m
05/06/2025 Coventry City Council could face an equal pay bill of more than £30m, The MJ understands. |
Unions demand pay talks
29/05/2025 A union boss has called for employers to come to the negotiating table as they accused bosses of ‘undermining' their collective bargaining agreement. |
EXCLUSIVE: LGA tells councils to hold fire on grooming response
22/05/2025 The Local Government Association has urged councils not to respond to a request from a private inquiry into grooming gangs as it considers the implications. |
EXCLUSIVE: Push for local PACs slows amid Whitehall scepticism
16/05/2025 Support for establishing local versions of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) across England is softening as the Government ponders whether to push the idea. |
Council plans further Exceptional Financial Support bid
15/05/2025 Windsor & Maidenhead BC will need to agree a package of Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) with the Government for next year, it has announced. |
Trial dates fixed for Liverpool City Council corruption case
28/04/2025 Trial dates have been fixed for two senior officers charged as part of an investigation into Liverpool City Council corruption. |
LGA updates business plan amid reorganisation shake-up
09/04/2025 The Local Government Association (LGA) is working on a new business plan as mayors increasingly reject its advances. |
EXCLUSIVE: Rayner drops Brum inquiry plan
09/04/2025 Angela Rayner has dropped plans for a statutory inquiry that would have investigated Labour-run Birmingham City Council's failed rollout of an IT system. |
MHCLG reshuffle after engagement improvements
04/04/2025 Engagement between the UK Government and councils has generally improved since Labour's General Election win, The MJ has been told. |
EXCLUSIVE: Sector bodies decline to join legal challenge
03/04/2025 County Councils Network and Rural Services Network will not financially support legal action over axing of the £100m rural services grant, The MJ understands. |
Whitehall dismisses Homes England cull reports
02/04/2025 Reports the Government plans to abolish Homes England as part of a cull of quangos have been dismissed by Whitehall. |
EXCLUSIVE: Auditors look into chief's £327k payoff
02/04/2025 Auditors are assessing an objection to Thanet DC's accounts after an ex-councillor said they should declare a £327k payment to its former boss ‘unlawful'. |
