Watch: Cadaema’s David Parrett on getting a grip on council estates
David Parrett, Director at Cadaema Consulting Services, talks to LocalGov about why councils lack basic data on their buildings and what they can do about it.
Doncaster relationships 'badly eroded'
03/11/2026 Senior officer and councillor relationships at Doncaster CC are ‘badly eroded' and blighted by a lack of trust since Reform UK, an LGA peer review has found. |
Cheshire East faces 'significant' finance risk
16/10/2026 Financial sustainability ‘remains a significant corporate risk’ at Cheshire East Council, according to an update on its improvement and transformation delivery plan next week. |
Council changes approach to providers after contract collapse
13/10/2026 Croydon has pledged to be ‘clearer' with children's services providers ‘about what we want services to achieve' following the collapse of an £8.6m contract. |
IFS warning over fiscal devolution
06/10/2026 The Government's regional fiscal devolution agenda threatens to be blighted by regional imbalances unless action is taken, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think-tank has warned. |
Survey reveals audit still struggling
05/10/2026 Joe Lepper reports on Public Sector Audit Appointments’ latest council finance leaders survey. |
Concerns over reorganisation delay impact on devolution
09/09/2026 MPs have raised concerns around the impact that a delay to local government reorganisation (LGR) announced this week will have on the Government’s devolution agenda. |
Healey: Fiscal devolution needed for successful cities
08/09/2026 Fiscal devolution is needed to ‘transfer power and resources from Whitehall to our regions’, chancellor John Healey has insisted. |
Evict parents of anti-social children, think-tank suggests
02/09/2026 Social housing tenants who are parents of anti-social children should be evicted from their homes, former Conservative leader's think-tank proposes. |
Dudley Council looking to reduce SEND ‘cost pressures’ amid £15.4m overspend
13/08/2026 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is looking to cut the cost of supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) after recording a £15.4m overspend. |
West of England mayor allocates £500k to help buildings stay cool
13/08/2026 West of England mayor Helen Godwin is offering grants worth up to £15k to help care homes and community groups improve their energy efficiency and help people stay cool amid heatwaves. |
Action needed to avert reorganisation’s threat to councils’ links with charities, report warns
13/08/2026 Action is needed by councils undergoing local government reorganisation (LGR) to ensure the changes do not hinder partnerships with their local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. |
North Devon Council to stage ‘special meeting’ amid maternity unit closure concerns
13/08/2026 North Devon Council is to stage a ‘special meeting’ next week amid concerns around the temporary closure ‘with little notice’ of the area’s maternity unit. |
Half of LGA meetings shrouded in secrecy
11/08/2026 The Local Government Association (LGA) has insisted it is looking to ‘maximise transparency’ despite not making agendas publicly available for almost half of its meetings. |
EXCLUSIVE: LGA redundancies down to just six
06/08/2026 The Local Government Association (LGA) is now proposing axing just six full time equivalent (FTE) posts, it has emerged. |
Mayors warned over partnership working
03/08/2026 Mayoral strategic authorities need to improve their partnership working with investors to ensure they are brought into opportunities earlier, report warns. |
Directors warning over proposed powers for child protection authority
16/07/2026 Stronger powers expected for the Government's child protection authority (CPA) need to be ‘proportionate' and focus on improving outcomes, ADCS says. |
Initiative to tackle profiteering in child placements expanded
13/07/2026 Over 100 councils will take part in the Government's expanded regional children's care initiative, which ministers hope will help tackle profiteering. |
Former councillor rages at lack of accountability for Brum failures
16/06/2026 Officers and commissioners at Birmingham CC should be held to account for their ‘failures' at the under-intervention local authority, says former councillor. |
Farage announces social housing foreigner ban
16/06/2026 Foreign nationals would be banned from social housing under a Reform UK government, party leader Nigel Farage has said. |
Councils question financial sustainability and timescales of SEND reforms
05/06/2026 Councils have raised a raft of concerns around the Government’s plans to overhaul the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system. |
