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DCN: Deprivation key determinant for spending

21/10/2025

Unitaries with a population over 350,000 tend to spend more per resident on services but are also more likely to run into financial difficulties, DCN shows

Council pension funds pile pressure on firms over climate

20/10/2025

Firms have been put under renewed pressure by the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) to allow shareholders a vote over their climate transition plans.

Councils to call for tighter HMO controls

02/10/2025

Councils are expected to call for tighter controls over houses in multiple occupation (HMO) after a ‘rush' of applications for HMO licences.

LGA: Councils need more than a decade to reach decent homes standard

24/09/2025

Councils should be given up to 12 years to bring social housing up to an enhanced decent homes standard (DHS) and even then the cost may mean they build fewer new homes, the Local Government Association (LGA) has told ministers.

Dorset hopes to recover potential contract fraud losses

23/09/2025

A council that sacked 11 interim officers over the potential mismanagement of a multi-million pound repairs contract hopes to recover at least £1m.

Reorganisation threat to district services

23/09/2025

Services provided by district councils must not become an early casualty of local government reorganisation, a new report has warned.

ARCH plea to increase rent cap

01/09/2025

Councils should be able to raise tenants' rents by up to £3 per week on top of any inflation-linked increase, a local authority association has told ministers.

Scottish care kids failing to attend school

27/08/2025

An increasing proportion of children in local authority care in Scotland are failing to attend school.

Cuts have hit council financial information, report finds

22/08/2025

Councillors and members of the public are not being presented with accurate or easy to understand information about local authority budgets, report has found.

Peers pass fire and hire exemption

23/07/2025

Councils with financial problems that are placed under government intervention may be exempt from a ban on sacking and then rehiring employees.

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.

Councils fear riots repeat

16/07/2025

Councils fear a repeat of last summer's riots without ‘significant government investment in community cohesion', a report has found.

Fears over lack of teeth behind mandatory reporting duty

14/07/2025

Government plans to make it a mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse need to be backed up with an effective deterrent, human rights committee has said.

Ministers tell pension pools to merge

15/04/2025

Two local authority pension pools have reacted angrily after their plans to meet new standards were rejected by ministers.

Reorganisation proposals average 544,000 population

14/04/2025

Reorganisation proposals submitted by councils would produce new unitaries of varying sizes but with an average population of 544,837, analysis reveals.

Welsh council tax rise of 7.2%

14/04/2025

Local authorities in Wales are raising council tax by an average of 7.2% in 2025/26 - the second largest rise for more than 20 years.

Providing sanctuary for refugees

10/12/2019

Neil Merrick finds out what councils across the country are doing to welcome and resettle Syrian refugees.

PWLB hike: A rise too far?

09/12/2019

What impact will the increase to the Public Works Loan Board rate have on councils’ housing and other capital schemes? Neil Merrick investigates.

Navigating the rules of purdah

25/11/2019

Neil Merrick voices his frustration over how different councils interpret purdah rules.

How accurate is the annual rough sleeping count?

21/10/2019

With some councils changing from estimating the number of homeless people on the streets to actually counting them, do recent figures genuinely reflect the success of the government's rough sleeping initiative? Neil Merrick investigates.

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