07/10/2026

Whitehall is ‘exploring' the use of AI to help assess councils against the key risk indicators for intervention, The MJ has learnt.

02/10/2026

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on ministers to deliver their commitment to review sales, fees and charges ahead of the Budget.

23/09/2026

Councils across England have called for more regulation as the sector increases its use of controversial facial recognition technology.

15/09/2026

Pressure was this week growing on ministers to publish the legal advice behind their decision to ‘pause' local government reorganisation and announce review.

11/09/2026

The National Audit Office (NAO) has launched an inquiry into the resilience of temporary accommodation amid soaring demand.

10/09/2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told council leaders he wants to ‘create a new settlement between central and local’.

08/09/2026

Croydon LBC's corporate management team and commissioners have privately expressed concerns about the council's transformation pace, focus and outcomes.

07/09/2026

The Government has launched a review of its reorganisation programme, withdrawing decisions on four areas and pausing a further sixteen, it has announced.

01/09/2026

Shadow Home Office minister and assistant whip Katie Lam has been appointed shadow housing, communities and local government secretary.

17/08/2026

Reform UK and the Conservatives could launch legal challenges to prevent PM Andy Burnham from spreading asylum accommodation more evenly across the country.

13/08/2026

Local authorities heading towards reorganisation face a lose-lose scenario on how to harmonise varying council tax bills, a finance director has warned.

11/08/2026

The Local Government Association (LGA) has reduced its funding gap by £16m but still faces a forecasted deficit of about £8m over the next four years, it has emerged.

06/08/2026

Two senior Derby City Council officers are ‘currently out of the office’ after a row over two fact finding exercises into the former chief executive, The MJ understands.

05/08/2026

Migration partnerships have raised concerns about the impact of a Home Office decision to downgrade its legal duty to provide support to asylum seekers.

04/08/2026

West Surrey's shadow authority has pushed back its recruitment of a permanent chief executive.

31/07/2026

A Government review of asylum accommodation data-sharing arrangements remains ongoing five months after Whitehall officials said they were ‘trying’ to restore council access to information, The MJ has learnt.

24/07/2026

Whitehall resistance to devolution is ‘over for good', PM Andy Burnham has insisted ahead of his first meeting at the newly-created No 10 North in Manchester.

21/07/2026

Whitehall officials are attempting to add teeth to the standards regime despite the lack of a primary legislation vehicle to bring reform, The MJ understands.

20/07/2026

Oldham Council's Labour group has offered ‘greater collaboration' with other parties after the authority's third attempt at electing a leader failed.

14/07/2026

Employers have denied they are playing parts of the sector off against each other by offering different pay settlements to different groups of council staff.