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13 Jun 2025

Councils in England warn of mass bankruptcies as Send deficits soar

Ever increasing costs and ongoing deficits caused by years of overspending on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) could push some councils into bankruptcy, council leaders have warned. The Government is expected to announce its immediate plans for the high needs deficit statutory override, which will expire next year. Cllr Tim Oliver, Chair of the County Councils Network, said: “The mounting SEND service deficits are the burning platform for many local authorities yet there was no resolution in the Spending Review."

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13 Jun 2025

Streeting urges NHS to 'work better with local government'

Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged the NHS to “work better with local government”.

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13 Jun 2025

County halts work on single unitary proposal

Leaders of the 10 districts and the county council have all ruled out a single unitary for Hertfordshire.
The new leadership at the county council has halted all work on developing a business case for a county-wide unitary following the elections last month.
The Conservatives lost their majority and the Liberal Democrats are now the largest party at Hertfordshire CC but with no overall control.

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13 Jun 2025

Spending Review felt wearily familiar

The absence of a narrative surrounding yesterday’s Spending Review means even the positive interventions will find few fans, write LGC editor Sarah Calkin

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12 Jun 2025

Reeves accused of ‘making up numbers’ in spending review

Ms Reeves has said repeatedly that the Treasury had examined every department’s spending ambitions “line by line” in a detailed process known as a zero-based review.
However, Mr Johnson said virtually every department faced “exactly the same cut in its administration budgets” of 10pc over the next three years and then another 5pc in 2029-30.
During the IFS analysis of Ms Reeves’s spending review, he said this was “irrespective of [any] planned spending increase” for each department.
Visibly shrugging in the online event, Mr Johnson said: “That is not the result of a serious department by department analysis. I hesitate to accuse the Treasury of making up numbers, but…”

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12 Jun 2025

1 in 20 pupils now have EHCP after numbers rise again

One in 20 children in England now have an education, health and care plan (EHCP) after another 11 per cent yearly rise, new figures that will put more pressure on SEND reforms show.
The number of pupils with EHCPs is now 482,640 – the highest figure on record – and double the number in 2016.
The proportion of schoolchildren with a plan has now topped five per cent for the first time – rising from 4.8 per cent to 5.3 per cent in the last year.

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12 Jun 2025

Spending Review: Council leaders warn of tax rises and cuts

Local authorities will be forced to increase council tax and make further cuts despite some of the ‘positive’ funding commitments in the Spending Review, council chiefs say.
The Chancellor announced yesterday that there will be an additional £3.4bn of grant funding to the sector in 2028-29 compared to 2024-25, a real terms increase in core spending of 3.1% across the Spending Review period.

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12 Jun 2025 - Spending Review 2025: CIPFA responds

In response to today’s Spending Review, CIPFA Chief Executive Owen Mapley said:
“The government’s Spending Review offers a mixed bag. While additional funding for the NHS and defence — both widely anticipated — has been confirmed, many unprotected areas will find little comfort in today’s announcements. For frontline services, significant pressures and concerns around long-term stability are likely to endure.

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12 Jun 2025 - County: ‘One Norfolk’ could save £32m a year

Norfolk CC has set out plans for a single new unitary council for the area, which its analysis says could save £32m a year.
As part of local government reorganisation final proposals for Norfolk need to be submitted to government in September.
A report – which will be presented to councillors next week – outlines how a single authority would save £32m per year and repay start-up cost within 12 months, as well as avoid disruption, risks, and costs caused by splitting up county-wide services.

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12 Jun 2025 - Spending Review: LGA positive on services and housing but warns of council tax increases

Councils will receive an annual uplift of 3.1 per cent in “core spending power”, following the Spending Review. The calculation assumes council tax will continue to rise at previous rates during the next three years. LGA Chair Cllr Louise Gittins said it was positive that the Spending Review delivered “on some key LGA asks” and highlighted funding announced for children’s services and SEND, increased investment in affordable homes and the commitment to a 10-year rent settlement. Cllr Gittins added: “A re-commitment to multi-year local government funding settlements is essential for financial planning, while efficiency and innovation continues across local government. However, all councils will remain under severe financial pressure. Many will continue to have to increase council tax bills to try and protect services but still need to make further cutbacks.”

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11 Jun 2025 - Spending review: More cash for schools, NHS and defence expected as chancellor unveils plans

The chancellor will confirm the budgets for each government department, as well as where she will invest billions in capital. But the Tories say this will be "a dangerous economic gamble that risks the country's financial future".

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11 Jun 2025 - Reeves heads to Parliament to unveil spending plans with cash boost expected for housing and NHS

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver her Spending Review shortly, setting out the budgets for all government departments over the next few years
The NHS and defence are expected to get the biggest boost when Reeves lays out how taxpayers' money will be spent at 12:30 BST - here's how the day will unfold
But some government departments are likely to face real-terms cuts - and the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank warns "sharp trade-offs are unavoidable"
Reeves is also expected to announce £39bn to help build social and affordable housing over the next 10 years, as well as extending the £3 bus fare cap in England until 2027
Reeves has already said three quarters of pensioners will receive winter fuel payments, after a government U-turn, and free school meals will be expanded to 500,000 children whose parents are receiving Universal Credit

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11 Jun 2025 - Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales

Rough sleeping will be decriminalised next year under government plans to scrap a 200-year-old law.
Ministers are planning to scrap the Vagrancy Act, which outlaws rough sleeping in England and Wales.
The law was introduced in 1824 to deal with rising homelessness, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has called it "cruel and outdated".

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11 Jun 2025 - Reorganisation savings warning

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.
Speaking to The MJ, the chairman of the District Councils' Network (DCN), Sam Chapman-Allen, said he thought ministers recognised reorganisation would initially cost money to push through, which would delay savings.
Last month Cllr Chapman-Allen's predecessor as DCN chairman, Lord Fuller, warned the Government ‘appeared to be sleepwalking' into a pensions payout for town hall bosses with ‘multibillion-pound implications'.

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11 Jun 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG creates advisory group on reorganisation

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has convened a reorganisation advisory group to provide expert advice and critical challenge on implementation.
It is understood the group includes individuals, including Birmingham City Council's lead commissioner and former local authority chief executive Max Caller, and organisations with reorganisation expertise, including those who have undergone or are currently undergoing unitarisation.
MHCLG promised it would publish terms of reference and members of the group.
The department has also co-convened with the Local Government Association a sector support steering group.

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11 Jun 2025 - CCN chair in health rejig warning

Health services could deteriorate under proposed changes to Integrated Care Boards, a senior local government figure has warned.
A blueprint document has advised the boards to consider mergers and reduce headcount as part of a broader 10-year plan to modernise the health service, which has sparked concerns across local government after the sector was largely bypassed.
ICBs have been told their new geographical boundaries should pay regard to local government devolution, with councils having only one in their area and populations no smaller than one million.

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11 Jun 2025 - Rates reset could force 'deep cuts'

Local authorities will be forced to make ‘deep cuts to important services' if the Government pushes ahead with resetting the business rates baseline in 2026-27, the District Councils' Network (DCN) has warned.

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11 Jun 2025 - Confidence Survey: Sector split over ideal council size

One third of council figures think setting the population threshold at 500,000 is 'about right' but 40% think it is too large, according to LGC research.
LGC’s latest Confidence Survey asked for views on the government's local government reorganisation plans, including whether they agreed with the government's proposed minimum population size for new unitary councils.

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11 Jun 2025 - Mapley: No evidence of widespread waste in key services

There is no evidence of widespread waste in the services putting most pressure on council finances, the chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy has said.
Owen Mapley’s comments come after Reform UK broke though in last month’s local elections on a platform that included cutting “council waste” and sending in taskforces modelled on Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) into the authorities they now control.
Speaking to LGC, Mr Mapley said: “I absolutely think the reality of local government funding, after 15 years of constraint funding and unconstrained increases in demand, is that there are unlikely to be significant sums that are universally agreed as waste.”

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11 Jun 2025 - Spending Review Published

The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented her Spending Review to Parliament on Wednesday 11 June.
Full details and supporting documents can be accessed on the HM Treasury website.

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11 Jun 2025 - Core spending power for councils to rise by 2.6%

Councils can expect their core spending power to rise by 2.6% in real terms between 2025-26 and 2028-29, Treasury documents published the lunchtime reveal.
Documents published after chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech say overall core spending power for councils is set to increase to £79.3bn. This includes money councils can raise themselves and the Treasury's calculations assume a 3% core council tax referendum principle and a 2% adult social care precept.

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11 Jun 2025 - £39bn cash injection for social housing ‘biggest’ for 50 years

The government has announced a massive £39bn investment in social housing in its bid to build 1.5 million new homes this parliament.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves used her Spending Review to announce “the biggest cash injection to social and affordable housing in 50 years.”
Reeves told MPs social housing had been “neglected for too long” and outlined: “a new Affordable Homes Programme – in which I’m investing £39bn over the next decade.

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11 Jun 2025 - London to get integrated settlement as new mayor fund revealed

London will join the areas on course to get an integrated financial settlement from the government from next year, the Spending Review announced today.
The Greater London Authority will join mayoral authorities in North East, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Liverpool City Region in getting an integrated settlement from 2026?27.
These five authorities will join Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, that received their first integrated settlements this financial year.

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11 Jun 2025 - ‘Trailblazer neighbourhoods’ to receive up to £20m

The government has named 25 “trailblazer neighbourhoods” that will receive funding up to £20m for “community-led regeneration and renewal” as part of today's Spending Review.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government said the areas would receive “long-term investment for communities and early support to prepare for investment from a dedicated team”.

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11 Jun 2025 - Chancellor makes £1.7bn commitment to children and Send

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed over £1bn of financial support towards reforms to children's social care and the special educational needs (Send) system today.
In the Spending Review, the Treasury allocated £760m towards making the Send system to "more inclusive and improve outcomes for all children and young people".
This week, a new report commissioned by the Local Government Association revealed how the Send system is “not working well for anyone in it” and at its most extreme, causes “long-term misery, stress and hardship for young people and their families”.

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11 Jun 2025 - Spending Review: Chancellor vows to improve pay for social workers

The Chancellor has backed a fair pay agreement for social care workers in a Spending Review that failed to address many of the struggling care sector’s concerns.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an increase to NHS funding of 3% a year, which means the health service gets £29bn extra a year.

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11 Jun 2025 - Spending Review: Deprived communities get local growth funding

Deprived communities set to benefit from local growth funding, reveals Chancellor Reeves.
In today’s Spending Review, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced ‘investments in up to 350 deprived communities across the UK’.
Chancellor Reeves declared the local growth investments will be made into mayoral city regions in the North and Midlands, ‘completing the transition from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund’ through the long-term funding strategy.

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11 Jun 2025 - Spending Review: Silence on SEND reform

Councils will have to wait until the autumn for details of reforms to services for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
The Treasury's Spending Review, published today, states the Government's approach ‘will be set out in a schools white paper in the autumn'.
This will include ‘details on supporting local authorities as the Government transitions to a reformed system as part of the upcoming local government funding reform consultation'.

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11 Jun 2025 - Winners and losers: Who got what in the spending review?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the government's Spending Review, which outlines the day-to-day budgets for departments over the next three years. Here BBC correspondents analyse how some key services have fared and what the decisions may mean for you.
The government is staring down the barrel of ever-growing demand for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support. The Spending Review does not seem to address deficits racked up by councils supporting those children, but it does appear to have set aside around £700m to reform the system.

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10 Jun 2025 - Spending Review: SEND reform

A new report commissioned by the LGA reinforces the case for reforming the SEND system ahead of the Spending Review. It is calling for an overhaul of the current system, where while in some cases an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will be appropriate, for most children they will get the support they need in schools, without needing an EHCP. It follows regional and national workshops with young people, parents and carers, and leaders of health, education settings and local government that discussed how the SEND system could be reformed. Cllr Arooj Shah, Chair of the LGA’s Children and Young People Board, said a new SEND system should be an “inclusive system where an EHCP is not necessary, with a sufficient workforce and investment in early intervention” while Cllr Tim Oliver, Chair of the County Councils Network, said the report’s proposals outline a “sustainable path forward with greater inclusion within mainstream schools and early years at its core”

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10 Jun 2025 - Vital bus services plummet in rural areas

Rural bus services have decreased by 18% since 2019 due to insufficient transport funding in county and rural areas, new research reveals.
According to a report from the County Councils Network (CCN), one in five rural bus routes have disappeared over the last five years.

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10 Jun 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Ministry scraps competitive bid element for fund

The next round of the Brownfield Land Release Fund (BLRF) will not be allocated by councils bidding, The MJ has learnt.
Well-placed sources revealed the Government was considering a further round of the fund, an initiative aimed at transforming underused or derelict brownfield sites into housing developments, with cash to be allocated.
Across all rounds, the BLRF has supported at least 89 local authorities with more than 160 projects, providing nearly £100m to facilitate the release of land for about 8,600 homes.

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10 Jun 2025 - Yusuf returns to Reform to lead DOGE team

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf will return to the party to run its team tasked with scrutinising council finances days after quitting as chairman.
Yusuf resigned on Thursday, saying that getting a Reform government elected was not a ‘good use of my time'.
He was joined in leaving by tech entrepreneur Nathaniel Fried, who led the party's unit inspired by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the US.
In a statement on social media over the weekend, Yusuf said his decision to leave the party had been ‘born of exhaustion.'
Reform's DOGE unit has now expanded from Kent CC to Lancashire CC.

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09 Jun 2025 - Nurseries to set cap on children using 'free' hours from September to cut costs

More than a third of nurseries are already limiting the number of government-funded childcare hours they offer or are considering doing so due to spiralling costs.
A poll of 816 early years providers across England, conducted by the Early Education and Childcare Coalition and shared exclusively with The i Paper, paints a stark picture of a sector under severe financial strain.
Nearly one in five nurseries (18 per cent) report that they are currently operating at a loss, while almost one in ten (9 per cent) indicate that they are likely to close permanently within the next two years.

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09 Jun 2025 - Children in England’s most deprived areas ‘less likely to achieve development goals by age five’

Children in the most deprived areas of England are less likely to achieve good developmental goals by the age of five, according to the aid agency Unicef UK, which has urged ministers to lift the two-child benefit cap.
A report by the UN agency mapped every local authority area across England measuring its level of deprivation and a range of early childhood health and educational outcomes such as oral health, weight and A&E attendance.
The analysis found that children in England’s most deprived areas are over twice as far from achieving the government’s target of 75% of young children to reach a “good level of development”, compared with the country’s most affluent areas.

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09 Jun 2025 - Rachel Reeves in standoff over policing and council budgets days before spending review


Rachel Reeves in standoff over policing and council budgets days before spending review
Chancellor still at negotiating table on Sunday as Home Office demands more cash
Explainer: The winners and losers in Labour’s first spending review
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
Mon 9 Jun 2025 00.02 BST
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Rachel Reeves has been locked in a standoff over the policing and council budgets just days before this week’s spending review, which is set to give billions to the NHS, defence and technology.
Yvette Cooper’s Home Office and Angela Rayner’s housing and local government ministry were the two departments still at the negotiating table on Sunday fighting for more cash, after weeks of trying to reach a settlement.
Whitehall sources said the policing budget would get real terms rises, but there was still disagreement over the level of investment needed for the Home Office to meet its commitments.
Rayner’s department is understood to have reached an agreement with the Treasury late on Sunday night after last-minute wrangling over housing, local councils and growth funds

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08 Jun 2025 - Where your ever-increasing council tax bill is really being spent

When Rachel Reeves delivers her long-awaited spending review on Wednesday, there will be one group of people holding their breath more than others – council leaders.
The Chancellor is widely anticipated to deliver real terms cuts to local government budgets this week, as she looks to focus increases in spending on health and defence.
Should the axe fall disproportionately on local government accounts, those working within the sector believe the prospect of more councils filing for bankruptcy will become all the greater.

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06 Jun 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Reorganisation tax warning

Town and parish councils have warned against potential restrictions on their tax-raising capabilities amid talk of more being created under reorganisation. Local government minister, Jim McMahon, has advised areas considering new parish councils to “think carefully about how they might be funded, to avoid putting further pressure on local authority finances and/or new burdens on the taxpayer”.

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06 Jun 2025 - Free school meals to be extended to 500,000 more children

The Government has said any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be able to claim free school meals from September 2026. Parents on the credit will be eligible regardless of their income and the Government says the change will extend free school meals to 500,000 more pupils, which Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said would “help families who need it most”.

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06 Jun 2025 - NAO flags imbalance in developer negotiations

The National Audit Office has found flaws with the developer contribution system that is undermining councils' ability to hold developers to account.
A gap in capacity and skills within councils compared to large developers is hampering funding negotiations to fund affordable homes and essential local infrastructure, a report published today revealed.
Councils are responsible for securing developer contributions through section 106 agreements or set a community infrastructure levy (CIL) but are faced with a power imbalance when up against large developer who have specialist negotiators.

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06 Jun 2025 - Ministers order proxy voting for full council

The government has committed to legislating for remote attendance at council meetings when “time allows” and announced that it will also require upper tier councils to have proxy voting schemes for full council.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government yesterday published its response to a consultation it carried out last year on remote meetings and proxy voting for councils.
This confirmed that ministers would proceed with necessary changes to allow remote attendance at meetings, something many in the sector have campaigned for.

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06 Jun 2025 - Councils told cuts will follow

Councils have been warned to brace for grant cuts after next week's Spending Review despite deputy prime minister Angela Rayner's attempts to shield the sector.
Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think-tank has found that, if the Government protects health and defence, real-terms cuts to other departments in the coming years would be inevitable.
Speaking to The MJ this week, IFS senior research economist Kate Ogden said: ‘Local government has done better in the last few years than other departments, but the Government has got lots of commitments and a tight envelope.

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06 Jun 2025 - Councils' watershed moment

Next week’s Spending Review will have huge implications for the future finances of local government. Martin Ford looks at what we know so far, and the key questions yet to be answered.

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04 Jun 2025 - Ministers ‘fight over scraps’ as reality bites on Spending Review

Three minsters are reportedly yet to reach settlements with the Treasury, in the run up to next week’s Spending Review. These are understood to include the Home Secretary, the Housing and Communities Secretary, and the Energy and Net-Zero Secretary.

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04 Jun 2025 - Chancellor to announce £15bn for transport projects outside London

The Chancellor is to announce billions of pounds of investment in transport infrastructure. The money will be spent on tram, train and bus projects in mayoral authorities in the Midlands, the North and the West Country.

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04 Jun 2025 - MHCLG floats post-reorganisation social care partnerships

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has proposed the formation of social care partnerships between new unitary authorities following reorganisation

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04 Jun 2025 - Fire stations in England ‘falling apart’ amid £1bn funding cut, chiefs say

Fire chiefs in England have warned that fire stations are “falling apart”, with an estimated £1 billion reduction in funding over the past decade, during which callouts have risen by 20 per cent. The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has raised concerns that these pressures could undermine public and firefighter safety, as they are responding to more emergencies with fewer firefighters.

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04 Jun 2025 - Why London councils want more Spending Review cash

London Councils has warned that boroughs across the capital collectively face a deficit of £500 million this year. It cites pressures in adult social care, children’s social care and the cost of providing temporary accommodation to homeless residents.

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04 Jun 2025 - Serious Fraud Office case into alleged fraud against Thurrock

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into alleged fraud committed against Thurrock Council by Rockfire Investment Finance Plc.
Thurrock issued a section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, in 2022 with its debts reaching £1.5bn after investing in solar farms.
Debt-ridden Thurrock Council has welcomed a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into a company it invested millions of pounds in for solar farms.

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04 Jun 2025 - Government announces allocation of £7.6m reorganisation fund

The Government has revealed how much of the £7.6m grant to support the cost of local government reorganisation each region will receive.

Ministers said that the 21 areas moving towards unitarisation would ‘receive a development contribution at a flat rate of £135,000, plus an additional 20p per person based on the latest ONS population estimates'.

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04 Jun 2025 - Concern over LGR neighbourhood area committees plan

Sector figures have warned that large unitaries supported by neighbourhood committees would be "insufficient" to meet the needs of communities.
In a written minsiterial statement giving an update on local government reorganisation yesterday local government minister Jim McMahon reiterated the government position that 500,000 population thresholds for new unitaries would be a “guiding principle, not a strict target”.
He added that he viewed creating neighbourhood area committees as the best way to involve communities.

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04 Jun 2025 - MHCLG tells areas to make ‘single’ LGR submission

The minister has said areas should submit one document outlining proposals for local government reorganisation as it revealed how much each area will get from a £7.6m fund.
Now that all areas have been sent feedback on their interim plans the government has published a summary and further guidance.
Earlier this year some areas submitted several separate interim plans to the government and Mr McMahon has now said that final proposals should be made through one submission.

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04 Jun 2025 - Questions over devolution boundaries

An influential Labour backbencher has questioned the Government's approach to rolling out English devolution.

Deputy chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Clive Betts, said the emerging boundaries proposed for mayoral combined authorities outside cities may not be the most effective.

In conversation with the Centre for Cities think-tank today, the former chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said he welcomed the Government's commitment to the concept of devolution, and that Prime Minister Keir Starmer had realised ‘we can't deliver what we want from the centre'.

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04 Jun 2025 - Make or break - County and rural council fears ahead of Spending Review

Departmental funding cuts to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will pile pressure on non-urban authorities which already stand to lose out under changes to the way council funding is distributed, the County Councils Network said.
Those authorities face a funding gap of £2.2bn next year on the back of surging demand and costs, on top of an estimated £2.7bn deficit in special educational needs provision due to hit budgets in March when the current statutory override comes to an end.
Further funding reductions will potentially trigger a wave of fresh applications for exceptional financial support as councils struggle to avoid financial collapse, the network said.

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04 Jun 2025 - Reform’s ‘DOGE’ could damage respect in local government – Mapley

Owen Mapley said investigations modelled on the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the US, which could see senior officers threatened with gross misconduct for failure to comply, posed a serious risk to governance.
Kent County Council will be the first authority to have its finances probed as part of a programme of audits being rolled out by Reform UK after a string of victories in last month’s local elections.
In a “request for co-operation” sent to senior Kent officers, party leaders said a team of investigators would be sent in to review the council’s financial management, procurement activity and associated governance arrangements.

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03 Jun 2025 - SEND shake-up terrifying parents who fear 'chaos' in the classroom

Parents and school leaders have expressed alarm over potential changes to England’s SEND system, and the possible reduction or removal of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) in mainstream schools, it is reported.

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03 Jun 2025 - Almost two in five councils ‘worse off’ under Labour

Just 21% of council figures say their authority is better off as a result of Labour’s actions since entering government last July, according to LGC research.
LGC’s latest Confidence Survey asked whether the government’s decisions have meant their council’s financial position is better or worse off.
Some 14% said they were ‘a lot’ worse off and 25% said they were ‘a bit’ worse off. Two fifths said they were neither better nor worse off.

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03 Jun 2025 - Mayors in tourism tax plea

English mayors have urged the Government to allow councils to introduce visitor levies to boost regional economies, tourism and infrastructure.
In a letter signed by a coalition of English mayors, the group argued that tourism taxes would help ‘empower local places' by contributing to the growth of transport and cultural infrastructure.
The group argued English regions ‘risk being left behind' as Wales and Edinburgh introduce visitor levies of their own.

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02 Jun 2025 - Chancellor under pressure over spending plans

Rachel Reeves will face “unavoidably” tough choices as the Chancellor sets out her plans in the Spending Review in just over a week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says. The think-tank said prioritising defence and NHS funding will lead to real-terms cuts to unprotected departments, including for local government. The LGA said councils already face a funding gap of more than £8 billion by 2028/29 and they need a "significant and sustained" boost to funding so they can deliver vital services.

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02 Jun 2025 - Reform to unleash ‘Doge’ unit on first council

Reform said it has assembled a team of software engineers, data analysts and forensic auditors, to visit each of the 10 councils the party now controls – starting with Kent today – to look at ways to save money.

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02 Jun 2025 - Rachel Reeves to spend big in red wall

Rachel Reeves will use the Spending Review to announce a multibillion-pound investment package in the north and Midlands, it is reported. Across the country the Chancellor is likely to have up to £100 billion of capital investment to announce, having changed the fiscal rules in the Budget last year.

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02 Jun 2025 - Children ‘failed’ over complex care needs

A lack of support for children and young people with complex care needs and the associated spiralling care costs have been highlighted in a new report.
The new research – carried out by the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) on behalf of the Local Government Association (LGA) – warns the challenge of meeting the increasing complexity of children’s needs, along with a lack of appropriate care for these children and the difficulties of commissioning those placements, is leading to a massive escalation of costs.
The report reveals the number of children’s home placements costing £10,000 or more per week – the equivalent of over £500,0000 per year – increased from 120 to 1,500 between 2018 and 2023.

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02 Jun 2025 - Ministers to take powers to merge LGPS funds

New legislation will give ministers the power to force council pension funds to merge as part of a raft of measures designed to reform the Local Government Pension Scheme.
The government today published the outcome of its consultation on the biggest overhaul of the LGPS in a generation, which aims to consolidate the fragmented scheme and increase the amount it invests in the UK economy.
The Fit for the Future consultation set a March 2026 deadline to “complete” the decade-long pooling programme, which sees the assets of the 87 LGPS pension funds in England and Wales transferred to pooling organisations to invest on their behalf.

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02 Jun 2025 - CCN warns spending review is ‘make or break’

Next month’s spending review could "make or break" county and unitary authority budgets without an injection of funding, the County Councils Network has warned.
With councils already facing a £2.2bn funding black hole – alongside billions in Send deficits – local authority chiefs fear any further reductions in funding could cripple local services and trigger a wave of councils applying for exceptional financial support to avoid them declaring bankruptcy.
In a survey of 38 county and rural unitary councils by the County Councils Network (CCN) and the Society of County Treasurers (SCT), which sets out the stark financial challenges facing England’s largest councils, 60% of councils say they’re “not confident” of setting a balanced budget without new funding.

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02 Jun 2025 - Barnet lobbies for fair funding review to reflect care costs

Barnet LBC is lobbying for adult social care costs to be adequately reflected in the Government's upcoming fair funding review.
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has vowed to ‘fix the foundations of local government by creating a fairer system', with the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities arguing deprivation should be a key factor in the review, which is due to be implemented from 2026-27.
However, Barnet chief executive Cath Shaw said: ‘People have a perception of deprivation being a driver of cost. Deprivation isn't actually a big cost driver. It's adult social care.'

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30 May 2025 - Unitary names next chief executive

SCT member Aidan Dunn has been recommended as Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council’s new chief executive. The appointment is subject to approval by council on 3 June.

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30 May 2025 - IMF praises UK fiscal path and predicts economic recovery

The International Monetary Fund projected GDP growth of 1.2% this year, up marginally on the 1.1% predicted last month, before rising to 1.4% in 2026 as the economic recovery takes hold.
Monetary easing, positive wealth effects and an uptick in confidence were bolstering private consumption, while the boost to public spending in the October Budget would also help support growth, the body said.
However, global trade uncertainty could weigh on UK growth by weakening global economic activity and disrupting supply chains, it warned.
The government’s fiscal strategy for the next five years supported growth while safeguarding fiscal sustainability, the IMF said, but chancellor Rachel Reeves must “stay the course” and reduce fiscal deficits as planned over the medium term.

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28 May 2025 - Government proposes easing environmental protections to boost housing

The Government has announced a raft of reforms aimed at easing planning regulations and environmental protections to support smaller housebuilders in England.
Under the proposals, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements will be relaxed for smaller developments of up to nine homes and medium-sized sites of between 10 and 49 homes.
The Government argues the move will make the BNG rules simpler for small- and medium-sized (SME) housebuilders, making it easier for SMEs to deliver habitats for wildlife on their sites.

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27 May 2025 - Council tax debt soars by 1.2 million people – the areas worst affected, mapped

The number of people in council tax debt has soared by 1.2 million in a year, The i Paper can reveal, as the Government considers banning the use of bailiffs.
Around 4.4 million people missed a council tax payment in the past 12 months, according to new research carried out by campaigners Debt Justice.
This is up from 3.2m just a year before and demonstrates that council tax debt is “spiralling rapidly as household budgets are stretched to breaking point” amid the cost of living crisis, according to Heidi Chow, executive director of Debt Justice.

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26 May 2025 - Reeves to champion £113bn of new capital investment in spending review

Rachel Reeves will put £113bn of new capital investment at the forefront of the spending review and argue that the billions of investment in homes, transport and energy would only have happened under Labour.
The billions unlocked by the change to the fiscal rules, which will be spent over the next parliament, will be at the centre of the government’s narrative in a fortnight’s time in an acknowledgment that Labour MPs need a better economic story to address rising discontent among the public.
The chancellor will champion the investment despite warnings about government borrowing after it reached £20.2bn in April.

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24 May 2025 - MHCLG proposes fines to force developers to ‘get on and build’

Councils could gain powers to fine developers for unbuilt homes, under new rules planned by the government.
Documents set to be published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) propose that developers will have to commit to delivery timeframes before they can get planning permission for new homes, and submit annual returns to councils showing their progress.
Councils have long argued that developers 'land-banking' is a problem.

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23 May 2025 - Social care leaders warn of tough times without ‘significant new funding’

A joint statement from 100 organisations in the social care sector, coordinated by the LGA, has warned that, without extra funding in the Spending Review, services for people who draw on care will face “the most difficult [circumstances] we’ve seen in recent years”. It said: “In the past, governments have looked for savings and efficiencies to help plug immediate gaps. The scope for those is now extremely limited and the clear reality is that current funding levels are insufficient to tackle the challenges facing the sector, such as inflation, demography, workforce recruitment and retention, the inability to invest in prevention, and provider instability.?Without significant new funding in the Spending Review, the coming months will likely be the most difficult we’ve seen in recent years for all parts of the sector and – most important of all – for people who draw on care and support.” The LGA’s call – also backed by a range of organisations, including Carers UK, British Association of Social Workers, Social Care Future, Age UK, Care England, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the National Care Forum - comes just weeks after the release of the Terms of Reference of the Casey Commission, which will look at reforming social care.

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23 May 2025 - Teachers and doctors in England given 4% pay rise

Teachers and doctors in England will receive a four per cent pay rise after the Government accepted salary recommendations from pay review bodies. Unions for both sectors criticised the deal, saying that the increase has not been fully funded, raising the prospect of strikes, it is reported.

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23 May 2025 - Labour plans to fix special needs system with more inclusive schools

More children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are to be educated alongside mainstream pupils under planned reforms by the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. The Government’s white paper on SEND comes months after it set up an expert group on school inclusion and appointed a strategic adviser.

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23 May 2025 - Sure Start centres saved government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

A study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that Sure Start centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, prompting calls for the Government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves.

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23 May 2025 - Reform UK renames Durham council departments

Reform UK has renamed several key positions and departments in Durham County Council to remove references to climate change, equality and inclusion.
A number of departments and cabinet titles have been renamed, including the neighbourhood and climate change position, which is now neighbourhoods and environment, and equality and inclusion which has been changed to stronger communities and belonging.

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23 May 2025 - Reorganisation feedback letters continue to trickle out

The Government is continuing to issue feedback letters responding to interim reorganisation plans, with a fresh flurry released over the last few days.
All the letters had been expected to be sent by the end of tomorrow but The MJ understands the process will now extend into next week.
Some in the sector have expressed annoyance at Whitehall's handling, with the letters coming with little warning and after the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) failed to meet its initial April deadline.

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23 May 2025 - LGA tells councils to hold fire on grooming response

The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged councils not to respond to a request from a private inquiry into grooming gangs as it considers the implications.
More than £600,000 has been raised to fund the non-statutory inquiry planned by former Reform UK-turned-independent MP Rupert Lowe, according to its Crowdfunder page, which was launched earlier this year.
Lowe has asked councils to nominate an officer to ‘engage formally' with his inquiry and to commit to ‘expedite data subject access requests made by survivors'.

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23 May 2025 - McMahon ‘confident’ of delivering LGR ‘within parliament’ 22 May 2025 By Andrew Vaux

The government’s ambition to reorganise all two-tier areas into unitary councils can be delivered during this parliament, the local government minister has told LGC.
Speaking to LGC at UKREiiF conference in Leeds today, Jim McMahon said: “We certainly have the capacity to deliver LGR during the course of this parliament and remain fully committed and confident to achieve this.”

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23 May 2025 - Rayner vs the UK Treasury: the ‘chaotic bunfight’ to secure cash for vital services

Angela Rayner, deputy prime minister, is locked in a fierce battle with the Treasury to secure cash for local services, amid claims that the climax of a multiyear spending review has turned into a “chaotic bunfight”.
Rayner and Yvette Cooper, home secretary, are said by multiple officials to be involved in the toughest fight with chancellor Rachel Reeves, as the Treasury nails down departmental budgets for the rest of the parliament.

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21 May 2025 - UK inflation jumps to 3.5%

The rate of Consumer Prices Index inflation rose to 3.5 per cent in April from 2.6 per cent in March, the Office for National Statistics said. The rise is blamed on increased household bills.

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21 May 2025 - Legal threats to Reform ambitions

Reform UK's ambitions to shake up local government could be stymied by legal hurdles, an expert warned this week.

Party leaders have criticised councils with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) posts, vowed to scrap Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) and suggested legal challenges to housing for asylum seekers.

But head of local government at law firm Weightmans, Simon Goacher, suggested Reform would face implementation challenges.

He said: ‘It's a steep learning curve for most councillors taking control for the first time and transitions of political control are not necessarily always smooth or easy for anybody.'

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20 May 2025 - From rhetoric to reality for Reform UK

Two weeks ago, joyous celebrations erupted among Reform UK members as the party celebrated its most successful ever elections.
Its surging performance – which one leading Reform councillor described it as ‘a tsunami’ - saw the party winning control of ten councils, two mayoralties and over 670 council seats, as well as the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-election.
But as the memories and celebrations from that night fade, the true realities kick in, and the party must begin facing up to the enormous challenges that local government poses.

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19 May 2025 - Union launches Fair Funding campaign to save council jobs

Unite has launched a campaign calling for an overhaul of how local authorities are funded to prevent further bankruptcies and job and public service cuts.
The public sector union warned that local government debt, which has doubled since 2010 to £122bn, is ‘spiralling out of control’ and called for council funding to be ‘urgently restructured.’

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19 May 2025 - Call for £1.5bn boost to care worker pay

A think tank has urged the Government to boost social care funding by £1.5bn to support a £2,000 pay rise for care workers.
A new report by the Fabian Society describes the ‘low pay and poor conditions’ of England’s 1.6 million social care workers as a ‘national scandal’.

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16 May 2025 - Second homes council tax premium impact assessments

Data obtained by the TaxPayers Alliance suggests 8 in 10 councils which introduced the second homes council tax premium did not complete an economic impact assessment beforehand. An LGA spokesperson said the premium is a way of “encouraging owners to bring these properties back into permanent use”, adding: “However, we remain clear that council tax itself has never been the solution to meeting the long-term pressures.”

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16 May 2025 - Education, Health and Care Plans

It is reported the Department for Education is considering restricting Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) to children in special schools. Speaking at the Schools and Academies Show in London, Dame Christine Lenehan, the Government’s strategic advisor on SEND, said the structure around EHCPs would “probably” change because it was “not fit for purpose”, but insisted any new system would “still be able to recognise and support children’s needs”.

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16 May 2025 - UK economy grew more than expected in first three months of year

The UK's economy grew by more than expected in the first three months of the year, according to the latest official figures. The economy expanded by 0.7 per cent in January to March, stronger than the 0.6 per cent that analysts had forecast, which the Office for National Statistics said was largely driven by the UK services sector.

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16 May 2025 - Blueprint document sparks sector concern

A blueprint document detailing changes to Integrated Care Board (ICB) functions has sparked concerns across local government.

The document advises ICBs to streamline and reduce headcount, with a number of functions to be transferred to neighbourhood providers and NHS regions.

ICBs have been asked to submit plans by 30 May on how they intend to achieve a £18.76 per head of population operating cost envelope.

The concerned chief executive of the Local Government Association (LGA), Joanna Killian, said: ‘I know from conversations with many colleagues across the sector that both the way that the plan has been communicated, as well as its content, is unsettling and has created many questions.

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16 May 2025 - Two counties set for minority Lib Dem rule

Liberal Democrats are set to run Gloucestershire and Devon CCs as minority administrations after becoming the largest party in both authorities, but falling short of overall majorities in this month’s local council elections.
In Gloucestershire, where 28 seats are needed for a majority, the Lib Dems have 27 and plan to work informally with Labour and Green councillors, who have ten seats between them.
Lisa Spivey, leader of the Liberal Democrat Group, told LGC: “With 27 seats we’re in quite a strong position, but not an overall majority.

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14 May 2025 - Asylum hotel companies vow to hand back some profits

Two companies that receive taxpayers’ money to house asylum-seekers in hotels have said they will give back some of their profits to the Home Office.

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14 May 2025 - Labour to spend millions on communities in Reform-voting regions

The Government has reportedly put together proposals for a renewed “plan for neighbourhoods” to invest in regenerating council estates and tower blocks. The plan is based on the findings of the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods, which has drawn up a list of more than 600 areas in England which are furthest from reaching the Government’s five missions. The government fund is set to form part of the Spending Review in June.

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14 May 2025 - Call for pensions to provide housing boost

The £392bn invested in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) could be used to plough necessary funds into social and affordable homes, a think-tank has suggested.

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13 May 2025 - Surge in right-to-buy purchases could cancel out plans to build homes

A significant increase of Right to Buy (RTB) applications could jeopardise the Government’s pledge to boost the number of affordable homes available in Britain, it is reported. The LGA said reductions to the discounts that tenants who buy their council homes through RTB receive would have a positive impact in the “longer term” but that the “spike in sales” of “desperately needed homes” would “exacerbate the homelessness challenges that councils are working hard to address”.

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13 May 2025 - Worcestershire set for Reform minority administration

Cllr Amos said the priority was addressing the projected financial deficit. He said: “We need to get the financial situation sorted out. I know technically a council can’t go bankrupt, but we are, we’re £35m short and projected £55m short next year. We’re also not happy that the council has spent lots of money on things which the public quite simply have no interest in at all.
“We want an audit showing how money has been spent and how money can go rampant and get out of control. For example, the home bus transport service was 50% over its budget in just one year. How can this be allowed to happen?

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13 May 2025 - Call for £100m homelessness cash injection

The Government should plough £100m into preventing homelessness over a decade as part of a wide-ranging move away from the current reactive system, a paper has urged.
Local authority spending on homelessness services has more than doubled in 14 years – from £1.3bn in 2010-11 to £3.1bn in 2023-24 – and the number of people living in temporary accommodation has reached a record 127,890 households, an increase of 13.6% on the previous year.
The report by the Institute for Government (IfG) think-tank and Centre for Homelessness Impact charity said a £100m endowment fund ‘offers a powerful mechanism to drive transformative change'.

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13 May 2025 - Third union recommends pay offer rejection

Trade union Unison has joined GMB and Unite in recommending their members reject the pay offer from council employers.
Unison and GMB's consultative ballots will both run until 20 June while dates for Unite's ballot have yet to be confirmed.
Employers tabled a ‘full and final' offer of a 3.2% pay increase for 2025-26 last month.

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13 May 2025 - Debt hurdle remains for reorganisation plans

Multi-billion pound debts remain a point of contention in reorganisation negotiations as the deadline passed for the first of the final plans to be submitted.

Two rival proposals for Surrey submitted to the Government on Friday both hinged on Woking BC's stranded debt being written off, but doubt continues over whether ministers will agree to such a move.

A three-unitary model put forward by eight borough councils said stranded debt ‘must be written off' while Surrey CC-led proposals for two unitary councils insisted the write-off was ‘essential to the success' of reorganisation.

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12 May 2025 - Immigration White Paper

New measures to tackle immigration will be announced by Sir Keir Starmer this morning ahead of the publication of the Government’s Immigration White Paper. It will include plans for migrants to have to live in the UK for a decade – up from five years - before they can apply for citizenship under plans to reduce reliance on foreign workers. New English language requirements will also be introduced across every visa route, which will extend to adult dependents for the first time.

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12 May 2025 - Care worker visas

Unions and care providers have warned plans to restrict the overseas care worker visa route will put services at risk. They say the care sector is already stretched to breaking point and still relies heavily on international staff to keep services running.

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12 May 2025 - Special schools delay undermine deficit reduction plans

Some councils on the high needs deficit safety valve scheme have said government delays in opening new special schools are undermining their plans to reduce huge deficits. Nine councils – nearly a quarter of those on the scheme – have flagged delays. Cllr Arooj Shah, Chair of the LGA’s Children and Young People Board. “We would encourage the Department for Education to act swiftly on progressing special free school decisions to ensure children with special educational needs and disabilities get the support they need.”

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12 May 2025 - West Sussex district included on final Surrey LGR options

Crawley and Reigate & Banstead BCs have submitted a proposal to form a new cross border unitary centred around Gatwick airport for the government to consider as part of local government reorganisaiton in Surrey.
The leaders of Crawley in West Sussex and Reigate & Banstead in Surrey which together form a £13bn plus economy – the largest economy in the sub-region centred around Gatwick airport – fear the creation of a hard boundary between the two authorities would be detrimental to the government’s growth agenda.

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12 May 2025 - Reform second largest party on CCN

The Conservatives will retain the chairmanship of the County Councils Network, but with a significantly reduced share as Reform surged into second place.
After last week's elections, which saw the Conservative party lose around two thirds of the seats it was defending, the new political balance for CCN has been calculated. The Conservatives have 32.5%, down from 60% in 2023, when it was last calculated.
Reform, which did not have any councillors in 2023, has 26%, followed by the Liberal Democrats on 21.4%, up from 15.5% in 2023.

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09 May 2025 - Council parking charges

Councils collected nearly £360 million in parking charges from resident-only schemes last year, it is reported, research by the Independent newspaper reveals. Cllr Adam Hug, transport spokesperson for the Local Government Association, said: “Councils work with residents to introduce parking schemes. Residential parking schemes benefit local people, offering better parking management, reducing congestion and traffic flow in an area and improving road safety.”

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09 May 2025 - Interest rate cut expected

The Bank of England is widely expected to cut interest rates today, with further falls expected later this year, it is reported.

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09 May 2025 - LGA Proportionality

The LGA’s political proportionality following this month’s local elections is Labour 35.9 per cent, Conservative 24.1 per cent, Liberal Democrat 17 per cent, Independent 10.2 per cent, Reform 7.8 per cent, Green 4.6 per cent and Plaid Cymru 0.4 per cent. Labour remains as the largest group and will retain the chair of the LGA.

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09 May 2025 - Reform looks set to run Leicestershire

Reform looks set to form a minority administration at Leicestershire CC, which the Conservatives lost to no overall control last week, after other parties ruled out working together and admitted Reform will be "in charge".
With 25 seats on the newly-elected council, Reform fell just short of the 28 needed for an overall majority. The Conservatives have 15 seats and Liberal Democrats are on 11. There are two Labour councillors, one Green, and a single independent.

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09 May 2025 - Thurrock’s former 151 officer sanctioned

The Financial Reporting Council has effectively banned Sean Clark, a former chief finance officer at Thurrock Council, following an investigation by the regulator for accountants.
Announcing the sanctions today, the FRC said Mr Clark would be excluded from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants for five years and given a "severe reprimand". This means he could not be appointed as a chief financial officer at any other local authority.
This is the first time that the FRC has imposed sanctions on anyone working in local government finance.

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09 May 2025 - Government ‘not on track’ to meet fiscal rules, making tax rises more likely – economist

The government is set to breach its main fiscal rule by almost £60bn, making tax rises more likely in the autumn, according to an influential analyst.

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09 May 2025 - MHCLG revises LGR feedback letters

Updated government feedback for some two-tier areas working on local government reorganisation has removed a suggestion they benchmark proposals against a 500,000 population option.
LGC understands that three areas have this week received a revised feedback letter, just a week after an initial letter from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government in response to the councils' LGR proposals.
The revised letter came after officials engaged with councils about their progress.

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07 May 2025 - Reform threaten legal action to close migrant hotels

Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has vowed councils controlled by the party would launch legal action against the Government to close migrant hotels if necessary.

The threat comes despite previous attempts by councils to use the courts to block asylum hotels proving unsuccessful.

But Yusuf said: ‘Reform-controlled councils will launch the resistance to the dispersal of illegal immigrants into their communities within their first 100 days. A lot of these hotels, when you suddenly turn them into something else, which is a hostel, that falls foul of a number of regulations and that is what our team of lawyers is looking at at the moment.'

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07 May 2025 - Union to ballot on national strike action

Trade union GMB has recommended its members reject the pay offer from council employers.

A consultative ballot, including a commitment to industrial action, will run from Monday until 20 June.

Employers tabled a ‘full and final' offer of a 3.2% pay increase for 2025-26 last month.

GMB hopes the ballot of 150,000 council and schools workers will help them to secure an improved offer.

The union's national officer Kevin Brandstatter said: ‘Local Government and schools workers across England and Wales have suffered years of real terms pay cuts.

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07 May 2025 - McMahon: End to 'shaming' preventing bankruptcies

An end to ‘public shaming' of councils has helped stem the tide of section 114s, local government minister Jim McMahon has claimed.

He believes a new approach of engaging with councils in financial difficulty has given the sector more confidence in approaching the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) before reaching crisis point.

McMahon told the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee: ‘Having that reset has gone quite a long way to reducing the number of section 114 notices.

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06 May 2025 - Long-term empty homes

Almost 265,000 dwellings across England are long-term vacant, with close to 3 per cent of homes empty in some parts of the country, according to analysis. Housing experts say converting these vacant dwellings would help thousands of families who are trying to find an affordable home to rent or buy, and help tackle the soaring numbers in temporary accommodation. The LGA said councils must be given more power to reduce the number of empty homes. Housing spokesperson Cllr Adam Hug said: “Long-term empty homes represent a missed opportunity to provide housing for those in need and those on housing waiting lists. Councils share a collective national ambition to tackle local housing challenges. However, they must be sufficiently empowered and funded to carry out work on this area.” The LGA also said the qualifying period for Empty Dwelling Management Orders needs to be reduced to six months.

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06 May 2025 - MPs warn social care needs substantial investment

A cross-party group of MPs has warned attempts to reform adult social care will fail unless ministers accept major investment is needed to overhaul a “broken” system that was failing millions of people. The Health and Social Care select committee said the costs of inaction included 2 million people aged 65 and over and 1.5 million people of working-age not getting get the care they need, millions more getting poor care and huge avoidable financial pressures placed on the NHS and local authorities.

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06 May 2025 - Reform to send in ‘taskforces’ to cut waste

Reform UK plans to hire “taskforces” of auditors to cut council waste, but one council leader who lost his seat warned that this would be difficult to achieve.
At last week’s council elections Reform won a majority on 10 councils and are the largest party on four councils that are now under no overall control, including Cornwall.
The Conservatives lost control of all the councils they were defending at this election and the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of three councils.

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06 May 2025 - LGPS pool warns government over forced merger plan

An organisation that pools the assets of 11 council pension funds has warned that government plans to force them to move to a new home could breach their fundamental duty to their members.
The government is seeking to consolidate the £400bn Local Government Pension Scheme, which is currently split between 87 individual pension funds and eight pools that invest their assets, in order to reduce costs and increase their UK investments.
All pools were told to submit business plans outlining how they would meet new minimum requirements by March 2026, and last month ministers rejected the proposals of Access and Brunel, telling their funds to find move to another pool.

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06 May 2025 - Government ‘committed’ to further Woking debt support

The government has confirmed that support with Woking BC's debt will be provided for any new authorities as part of local government reorganisation in Surrey.
Woking issued a section 114 in June 2023 and commissioners were appointed in December. The district had a debt of £1.9bn, while its revenue budget was just £16m.
Woking BC's papers confirmed that the government is "committed to providing an initial tranche of financial support for debt repayment for Woking in 2026-27, ahead of the implementation of re-organisation in Surrey".

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06 May 2025 - Five Tory leaders lose seats in election wipe out

At least five Conservative county leaders lost their seats as the party was wiped out across the shires following Thursday’s elections.
By Friday afternoon, with some results still to be declared, the party had lost more than half of the 996 seats it was defending as well as control of 12 of the 16 councils.
Among the high profile casualties were Izzi Seccombe, the Conservative leader of Warwickshire CC for the past 12 years and former leader of the Conservative group at the Local Government Association, who lost her seat to the Liberal Democrats.

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02 May 2025 - Social care commission recommendations might not come into effect for a decade

Some of the first recommendations from the Casey Commission into adult social care in England might not be implemented until 2036. The independent commission formally began this week with its terms of reference published today. The LGA urged the Government to “revisit” the current timescales “to reflect the urgency of the situation, and the reality that people and organisations have already waited long enough for real change”.

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02 May 2025 - Councils at liberty to sell school land, Rayner says

Local authorities across England are allowed to sell off playing fields to help close budget gaps, Angela Rayner says.
Following recent government guidance, councils have been advised to use their discretion in determining whether to sell school land they don’t need.

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02 May 2025 - Surrey councils stand firm in reorganisation plans

Surrey's councils have published proposals for local government reorganisation, defying the Government's hope for unity on final proposals.
While Surrey CC has submitted a proposal for two unitary councils, eight out of the eleven districts have requested a three unitary model, outlining benefits including boosted local economies and strengthened democracy.
Separately, Reigate & Banstead BC has published a joint proposal with West Sussex's Crawley BC to create a unitary with a population of 276,000 and a £13bn economy centred around Gatwick Airport, which is seeking to expand.

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02 May 2025 - Community duty mooted

The Government is looking to hand all councils an extra duty to involve community groups in their decision-making, The MJ has learnt.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) documents revealed a potential proposal for a new duty on community decision-making, which was presented to charities, civil servants and local authority representatives at a round table meeting last month.

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30 Apr 2025 - Call for SEND deficit assurance

The freshly-appointed president of the Society of County Treasurers has called on the Government to give councils certainty over Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) deficits.

In an interview with The MJ this week, Rob Powell called for ‘clarity' over deficits of £6bn for services for children with SEND.

Ministers have yet to give any indication of what will happen when the statutory override keeping the deficits off council accounts ends in March.

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29 Apr 2025 - Local government wage pressures

Wage pressures are contributing to the local government funding gap of £1.9 billion in 2025/26, councils across England have warned as unions consider a 3.2 per cent pay increase offer. The LGA has cited wage pressures, along with inflation and growing demand and complexity of need, as contributing to the sector's funding gap, which is estimated to reach £8.4 billon by 2028/29.

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29 Apr 2025 - Valuation Office Agency to be axed

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the body responsible for setting council tax and business rates values, is to close.

HM Revenue and Customs will take over the arm's-length body's responsibilities in a move the Government claimed move would ‘increase efficiency, business experience and ministerial accountability'.

The process is expected to be completed by April and is expected to make 5% to 10% of savings in administrative costs by 2028-29.

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29 Apr 2025 - Call to prioritise investment in housing

The Government should prioritise investment in affordable housing, according to research published today.

The Resolution Foundation think-tank argued such a strategy would boost both social economic infrastructure and make the most of the dwindling funds available.

Targeted investment in affordable housing in areas with the highest demand for temporary accommodation – often urban areas with high productivity potential – could boost growth by attracting firms and high-skilled workers.

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28 Apr 2025 - YouGov poll projects two Reform mayors

Reform UK’s mayoral candidates for the new mayoralties in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire have clear leads over other parties, according to YouGov polling published today.
YouGov’s poll, conducted between 9 and 23 April, also found that he Green Party’s candidate is in the lead for the West of England mayoralty.

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28 Apr 2025 - IFS: Government borrowing uncertainty shows ‘risk’ of barely meeting fiscal rules

The latest borrowing figures show the “clear risk” run by the government in adhering to its fiscal rules despite the uncertainty of official forecasts, analysts have warned.

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28 Apr 2025 - Carbon tax could cost councils £6.5bn

The Emissions Trading Scheme could end up costing councils up to £6.5bn by 2036, the Local Government Association has warned.
Councils are urging the government to look again at plans to extend the scheme ahead of the spending review with the potential cost to councils of £747m in 2028, rising to £1.1bn by 2036 and totalling £6.5bn over that period.
The Emissions Trading Scheme puts a market price on carbon emissions and currently applies to the aviation industry but is expected to be extended to waste incineration from 2028.

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28 Apr 2025 - Met to bring social care services back in house

Salford City Council is returning the delivery of some adult social care services for more than 800 residents back in house.
The services have been delivered by community interest company Aspire for Intelligent Care and Support for the past decade with around 350 staff providing 744,000 hours of care a year for adults with care needs including learning disabilities, dementia and care for older people.

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28 Apr 2025 - Private landlords overcharging for homeless accommodation

Councils are being overcharged by private landlords and hotels for accommodation to house people who are at risk of becoming homeless, with charges 60 per cent over market rates, it is reported.

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28 Apr 2025 - Strike risk for teachers and NHS

The independent pay review body representing teachers and NHS staff has recommended a higher pay deal than the Government has budgeted for, potentially increasing the risk of strikes in the public sector, it is reported

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28 Apr 2025 - Unite advises members to reject latest pay offer

Public sector trade union Unite has advised its members to reject this year’s local government pay offer and threatened industrial action this summer.
The National Employers for local government services last week offered council employees a 3.2% pay increase from 1 April 2025.

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24 Apr 2025 - Chiefs welcomes 3.2% pay offer

The body representing senior local authority officers has welcomed the 3.2% pay increase offered to its members by employers.
The Association of Local Authority Chief Executive and Senior Managers believes the settlement recognises the important role senior officers play within local authorities.
Responding to the pay offer, Alace chair Tracey Lee said: “The pressures facing heads of paid service continue unabated. Their experience, judgement and impartiality has arguably never been more important.

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24 Apr 2025 - London facing bankruptcy from homelessness pressures

London Councils has warned the capital's ‘homelessness emergency' represents the ‘single biggest risk' to council finances and is pushing boroughs towards bankruptcy.

Skyrocketing homelessness and spiralling temporary accommodation costs have meant London's councils were forced to overspend on their homelessness budgets by at least £330m in the last financial year, according to the umbrella body.

It also highlighted the ‘growing mismatch' between temporary accommodation costs and government subsidy. This, the organisation claimed, rose to £140m in 2024-25 – a 45% increase on the previous year.

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24 Apr 2025 - Councils risk being 'fleeced' over reorg, says former commissioner

Councils facing reorganisation face being ‘fleeced' by consultants keen to profit from the process, a former Northamptonshire CC commissioner has claimed.

Theresa Grant, who oversaw the bankrupt authority and its districts' transition into two unitaries has warned councils to ‘beware of experts'.

She said: ‘I'm very worried about local authorities that they are going to get fleeced and they're not going to get what they need.'

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24 Apr 2025 - Election win could Reform the sector

A strong performance from Reform UK at next week's local elections will potentially transform local government, experts believe.
On 1 May Nigel Farage's party will be optimistic of dramatically increasing its England wide tally of 123 councillors. More in Common's analysis of opinion polling this week put Reform ahead of both Labour and the Conservatives.
‘If Reform UK performs strongly in the 2025 local elections, taking control of councils or establishing itself as the main opposition in certain areas, the consequences for local government could be significant both practically and politically,' said University of the West of England senior politics lecturer Thom Oliver.

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23 Apr 2025 - Environment Agency seeks feedback on ‘polluter pays’ levy

The Environment Agency is consulting on a “polluter pays” levy on water companies for sewage discharges to recover the costs of its enforcement activities.

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23 Apr 2025 - Councils back government ban on ransomware payments

Local authorities are backing government moves to ban the public sector from making ransomware payments but want to see stronger obligations imposed on suppliers.

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23 Apr 2025 - Council employee pay offer announced

Council employees have been offered a 3.2% pay increase from 1 April 2025.
The ‘full and final’ offer would mean the pay of the lowest paid employees, who are currently earning £23,656, would have increased by 33% since April 2021.
The offer also includes a proposal to delete the bottom pay point from the national pay spine on 1 April 2026.

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23 Apr 2025 - Majority of public ‘not following’ reorganisation

Nearly two-thirds of the public are not engaged with local government reorganisation, a new poll commissioned ahead of the local elections has revealed.
The Ipsos research commissioned by the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) found that 63% were not following closely or at all the Government’s overhaul of local government.

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23 Apr 2025 - Pothole breakdowns jump 20%

Pothole-related breakdowns have increased by nearly 20% compared to the same period last year, according to the RAC.
The RAC Pothole Index data reveals that 9,439 pothole-related breakdowns occurred between January and March of 2025, a figure which has doubled since the end of 2024.

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23 Apr 2025 - Surrey must split to avoid devo island

Leaders in Surrey have ruled out a county-wide unitary despite a suggestion from the government to include the option in final proposals as a benchmarking measure.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government told chief executives in 11-page feedback letter, seen by LGC, that the inclusion of a single unitary option as a "benchmark" would be “helpful” to “consider the potential net savings from two and three unitary options”.

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23 Apr 2025 - 89,000 council properties sit empty amid second homes tax raid

The assault on second home owners is being pushed through by “dishonest” councils with thousands of empty properties on their books, Telegraph analysis has revealed.
Councils in England were given the power to charge a 100pc council tax premium from April 1 under laws passed by the previous Conservative government to ease housing pressures.
But government figures show there are 34,000 council-owned homes lying empty around England, plus a further 55,000 run by social housing associations.

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23 Apr 2025 - UK economy will be among hardest hit by global trade war, IMF warns

The Washington-based organisation said there were a string of threats to UK and global output, not least from the impact of the Trump administration's evolving trade war.

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22 Apr 2025 - Councils lose over half a million jobs in ten years

Councils across England and Wales have lost almost a third of their staff over the past decade, according to new research by the GMB. The union said that 13 years ago, local authorities employed 1,894,700 workers, but by 2024 the number had fallen to 1,295,300. The figures were released as the GMB and other unions begin talks with the LGA over council workers’ pay claim for 2025/26. The LGA said working in local government has never been more valued or important, given the hundreds of essential services provided every day by councils and combined authorities to keep communities running. An LGA spokesperson said: “Significant staff shortages in local government risk having a serious impact on councils’ capacity to deliver services and help government meet key pledges. Government investment in local government and its workforce is key to ensure services are protected and also to delivering its own policy agenda.”

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22 Apr 2025 - Jim McMahon: Creating a fit for purpose audit system

The government’s reforms will provide a strengthened early warning system for councils facing financial difficulties, writes the local government minister.

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22 Apr 2025 - Devo funding must address ‘rural deprivation’

Politicians in Cumbria have said any devolution deal must include adequate funding to address years of underinvestment.
In its response to the consultation on creating a strategic mayoral authority in Cumbria Westmorland & Furness Council has said the government must recognise rural deprivation.
Andrew Jarvis (Lib Dem), deputy leader of Westmorland & Furness, said: “We need government to recognise there are significant pockets of deprivation within our area and there are real issues of rural deprivation.

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22 Apr 2025 - Portsmouth wants out of reorganisation

Portsmouth City Council has called on ministers to leave it out of reorganisation plans, arguing claims it is too small don't stack up with London boroughs and northern mets remaining.

In a letter to local government minister Jim McMahon, Portsmouth leader Steve Pitt argued the city was already a sustainable organisation and reorganisation was mainly aimed at two-tier areas or failing authorities, adding that the council was concerned at inheriting other authorities' budget deficits.

‘The Government is arguing we are too small and can be more financially stable through local government reorganisation (LGR) but there is no evidence for that,' he said.

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17 Apr 2025 - Councils and charities warn of children’s social care ‘breaking point’

Councils and charities have joined forces to call on the Government to provide additional funding for children’s social care in the forthcoming Spending Review. It comes as latest government figures show there were 621,880 referrals to children’s social care in the year to March 31, 2024 – equivalent to 1,704 a day. Cllr Arooj Shah, Chair of the LGA’s Children and Young People Board, said support for children and young people was “central to the delivery of the Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity”. She said: “The Spending Review is an opportunity for long-term, sustainable funding for children’s social care and the services children and families rely on.”

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17 Apr 2025 - Second homes tax cash not being spent on local housing, councils admit

Councils hitting second home owners with double tax bills are spending as little as 9p in every £1 generated from the raid on affordable housing, Telegraph analysis shows.
Local authorities have been accused of treating the policy as a “cash cow to prop up day-to-day spending”, with some using the funds to implement 20mph speed limits and issue environmental grants.
Senior politicians and campaigners are now calling on officials to come clean about where the money is being spent amid concerns the funds have not been appropriately ring-fenced.

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17 Apr 2025 - LGA: Children’s social care buckling under budget pressures

Council chiefs have urged the Government to invest more into early intervention to support the children’s social care system and to prevent struggling children from ‘reaching crisis point’.
Inadequate funding is causing councils severe difficulty in providing children’s social care services, which receive referrals for roughly 1,700 children each day, many of which require additional support for complex needs.

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16 Apr 2025 - PM demands quicker government policy decisions

Cabinet ministers have been warned of an end to flexible deadlines for agreeing policy. Under the current system, departments back or raise concerns about policy proposals from No 10 and other parts of Whitehall under a procedure called “write round”. However, departments have been told that they need to “engage or get timed out” from the process and warned that delays were no longer acceptable.

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16 Apr 2025 - UK inflation falls to 2.6%

UK inflation has fallen to 2.6 per cent. This represents a second consecutive dip after inflation eased by more than expected to 2.8 per cent in February.

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15 Apr 2025 - Council tax premium on second homes

The number of empty homes has increased to 719,470, up from 635,127 since an empty homes tax was first introduced in 2013, it is reported. Anti-tax campaigners say the rise shows why recent introduction of the council tax premium on second homes will be ineffective. The LGA said: “Charging a council tax premium, for long-term empty and second homes, is one way of encouraging owners to bring these properties back into permanent use. However, we remain clear that council tax itself has never been the solution to meeting the long-term pressures facing local services, and councils need the powers and resources to build more affordable homes.”

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15 Apr 2025 - Local government reorganisation population average

Analysis by the Local Government Information Unit has found that reorganisation proposals submitted by English councils would result in average populations for new unitaries of approximately 544,000, though actual sizes would vary between areas.

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15 Apr 2025 - Pension pools told to merge

Two local authority pension pools, ACCESS and Brunel, have been told to merge with other pools after their plans to meet new standards were rejected by ministers.

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15 Apr 2025 - Gove handed peerage

Former local government secretary Michael Gove has been appointed to the House of Lords.

Now editor of the Sectator magazine having left the House of Commons, Gove was granted a peerage as part of Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list.

He was first elected as an MP in 2005 until standing down at last year's General Election.

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15 Apr 2025 - Welsh council tax rise of 7.2%

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, though down slightly on last year’s rise of 7.7%.

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15 Apr 2025 - Welsh council tax rise of 7.2%

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, though down slightly on last year’s rise of 7.7%.

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15 Apr 2025 - Council rejects Farage bankruptcy claim

Lancashire County Council has hit back at claims by Nigel Farage that it is on the brink of bankruptcy.
The Reform UK leader made the allegation on Wednesday while campaigning ahead of next month's local elections.

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15 Apr 2025 - Millions set aside for LGR bids

Almost £40m has been set aside by councils in two-tier areas to prepare local government reorganisations proposals this year.
In a new analysis of interim plans submitted to the government last month, the Local Government Information Unit revealed that £38.4m has been set aside to prepare proposals and that the average transition cost will be £31.1m per two-tier region.

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15 Apr 2025 - Local Audit Office powers set as government responds to consultation

The Local Audit Office will not be able to force councils to amend their accounts in response to auditor concerns, the government has confirmed following fears over the body’s independence and potential overreach.

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11 Apr 2025 - Essex CC rejects combined authority plan ‘in its current form’

Essex County Council has told the Government that it cannot support the proposal for devolution in Greater Essex ‘in its current form’.
Council leader Kevin Bentley welcomed reorganisation as a ‘huge opportunity’ but objected to the voting arrangements for the board of the proposed Mayoral Combined County Authority.

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09 Apr 2025 - Hundred-year wait for family-size social housing in parts of England, study finds

The wait for family-size social housing has risen to more than 100 years in parts of England, which charities have condemned as “ludicrous” and a “national scandal”.
Analysis from the National Housing Federation (NHF), Crisis and Shelter found that in 32 local authority areas across England, the wait for a home with at least three bedrooms was longer than 18 years – the duration of an entire childhood.
The worst three councils, all of which are in London, have waiting lists exceeding 100 years, while nine local authorities have waiting lists of more than 50 years.

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08 Apr 2025 - NAO chief warns of ‘moral hazard’ in writing off Woking’s debt

Using exceptional financial support to address recurring overspends “can't be a sustainable solution” but writing off debt for Woking BC would be a “moral hazard”, the National Audit Office’s comptroller Gareth Davies told MPs today.
Mr Davies was appearing before the Commons' housing, communities and local government committee for its inquiry into financial sustainability.
Committee chair Florence Eshalomi (Lab) asked: "Do you think it's fair for local taxpayers who will pay their council tax and business rates on time for councils that may have run into financial difficulties and haven't produced audits for many years, and in some cases, are in receipt of EFS?"

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08 Apr 2025 - RAC: Only 3% of council roads maintained last year

Just 3% of England’s council-run road network received any form of road maintenance during the last financial year, a new analysis of Government data has revealed.
RAC found that nearly 4,900 miles – out of 183,000 miles – of all road types were strengthened, resurfaced or preserved in 2023/24.

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08 Apr 2025 - Early intervention spending down 40%

Spending on early intervention children's services has plummeted by more than 40% since the onset of austerity, research has found.

Analysis of English council spending by the Pro Bono Economics (PBE) think-tank found intervention funding fell by £2bn in real terms between 2010-11 and 2023-24, a decrease of 42%.

In the most deprived local authority areas of England the reduction amounted to 53% compared to 30% in the least-deprived areas.

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08 Apr 2025 - Policy action needed to solve financial challenges

Radical short-term fixes followed by changes in policy are required to shore-up local government finances, MPs have been told.

Levying council tax on unbuilt homes, lifting the referendum cap, and flexibility on discounts were put forward as options to explore by CIPFA chief executive Owen Mapley as he appeared before the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.

He said there was a pressing need for immediate action over longer-term reform that ‘could prove distracting'.

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08 Apr 2025 - AI sensors to monitor elderly for falls and missed meals in new social care plan

Artificial intelligence sensors that can send an alert if a vulnerable person has fallen at home or missed a meal are to form a major part of the plan for social care, Wes Streeting will suggest when he announces a new training programme for staff.
A qualification for social care workers, on using the cutting-edge technology, is to be unveiled by the Health Secretary on Wednesday.
He will argue that increased reliance on such tech could free up care workers’ time, relieve workforce shortages, and keep elderly people in their homes for longer.

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08 Apr 2025 - The 28 areas where average council tax will hit £3,000 under Labour

Council tax bills will soar by nearly 30pc under Labour, with residents in 28 areas hit with £3,000 average bills, analysis shows.
Campaigners said the figures poured cold water on promises made by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, last week that households would be £500 a year better off thanks to this Government.
Figures, compiled by the Taxpayers’ Alliance on behalf of Telegraph Money, revealed a typical Band D house will be paying £2,750 a year by 2030, the end of Labour’s first term. It amounts to a 27pc hike from 2024.

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07 Apr 2025 - Second homes premiums

The first day of April was a bleak one for household budgets. Water, energy, broadband, and rail fares have shot up for us all.
But for Phil Mandeville, a pensioner from Hampshire, the new financial year has been especially brutal.
Mr Mandeville is one of thousands facing a double council tax surcharge on his second home meaning he now has to pay an extra £2,000 per year on a second home he owns in Bradford, Yorkshire.

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07 Apr 2025 - Health workers will be sent house to house to cut sick leave

Healthcare workers will be sent from house to house in an NHS scheme to reduce the number of people who are signed off work on sick leave.
The programme is part of efforts to fix problems such as unemployment, debt and bereavement that are adding to pressures on the state sector. It will be rolled out in 25 areas in England.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said early versions of the scheme showed “really encouraging signs” in cutting the number of heavy users of services, whom he called “frequent flyers”, filling up A&E departments.

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07 Apr 2025 - Dozens of quangos face axe as Labour targets Whitehall waste

Quangos that offer ministers advice on migration, policing, drugs, housing and environmental policy could be abolished or merged as Sir Keir Starmer prepares to announce dozens for the axe as early as this week.
Pat McFadden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is drafting legislation that could shut down a swathe of quangos in a single act of parliament rather than requiring individual laws to abolish each one.

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04 Apr 2025 - Fears of local government financial collapse ‘pessimistic’, says top civil servant

A senior MHCLG civil servant has defended the Government’s reforms for local government while speaking at the Public Accounts Committee, arguing that concerns around council finances were “too pessimistic.” The article cites recent LGA research that nearly three-quarters of councils feel it will be difficult to set a balanced budget for 2025/26, and that councils will face a funding gap of £8 billion by 2028/29.

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04 Apr 2025 - Council switches off street lights in energy-saving pilot

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has alerted drivers that they will be switching off street lights along two main roads as part of an energy-saving pilot.
The council was awarded £3.3m to study more environmentally friendly ways of lighting main roads, as more efficient car headlights could make some lampposts redundant.

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04 Apr 2025 - Cost of homelessness leaves councils reeling

Councils are being ‘pushed to breaking point' by the ballooning cost of homelessness support, charities, housing experts, MPs and sector leaders warned this week.
Ministers are coming under growing pressure to tackle the increasing housing budget blackhole councils are facing, including by removing the cap on local housing allowance that local authorities can claim on the cost of temporary accommodation, which has been frozen at 2011 rates.
On Tuesday it was revealed that only 2.5% of private rented homes in England were affordable for people on housing benefit last year – a significant drop from 12% in 2021-22.

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04 Apr 2025 - Government to set out SEND deficit plans

The Government is to set out how it will tackle the £6bn special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) deficit crisis later this year.

The statutory override keeping the deficits off council balance sheets is to end in March 2026.

Senior officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said details will be announced as part of the Spending Review in June and in the local government finance settlement, which they aim to publish in late November.

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04 Apr 2025 - Sector bodies decline to join legal challenge

The County Councils' Network (CCN) and Rural Services' Network (RSN) will not financially support legal action over ministers' axing of the £100m Rural Services Delivery Grant, The MJ understands.
CCN has warned the grant's removal will ‘further exacerbate the financial challenges faced by county and rural authorities' but neither it nor RSN are expected to join planned legal action by North Yorkshire Council.
Carl Les, leader of North Yorkshire, which is a member of both CCN and RSN, said he believed the ‘rationality' and equality impact of ministers' decision was ‘worth challenging'.

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03 Apr 2025 - Over 50 LGR options still in play

The government received at least 40 separate local government reorganisation interim plan submissions, LGC analysis has found.
Across these documents at least 53 separate LGR options have been outlined for the 21 remaining two tier areas, with no area yet to have agreed a final geography for new unitary councils.
Experts have told LGC about concerns over local government capacity to deliver and called for “open dialogue” with the government to avoid wasting time.

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03 Apr 2025 - EFS is ‘bad government’ and reorganisation is a ‘distraction’, parliamentary committee hears

Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) is “bad government”; local government reorganisation will be a “distraction”; and the upcoming Spending Review offers no grounds for optimism.
Those were some of the opinions offered by Professor Tony Travers, professor in practice and Associate Dean at the LSE School of Public Policy during a Public Accounts Committee inquiry on local government financial sustainability today (3 April).

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01 Apr 2025 - New recycling rules require additional bin

Revamped recycling rules are set to be introduced for households and businesses across England, the Government has announced. Householders across the country will have to separate paper and card from waste like metal and plastic and dispose of it in a new recycling bin from 31 March 2026. Households in England dumped 5.6 million tonnes of packaging in 2023, according to analysis commissioned by the LGA, County Councils Network, and District Councils’ Network.

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2025

01 Apr 2025 - Council pension contributions set to be cut 01 Apr 2025 - Household bills rise by more than inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Half of English councils not confident in meeting statutory responsibilities in 2025-26 01 Apr 2025 - UK living standards predicted to drop in second half of 2020s 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement 2025 01 Apr 2025 - OBR warns on council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Great British Energy announces £10m for metro mayors 01 Apr 2025 - NICs compensation leaves councils out of pocket 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole funding - councils required to show they are fixing potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves confirms 15% cut to Civil Service running costs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils and NHS ‘could face millions in extra costs’ due to disability benefit cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Second homes council tax premiums 01 Apr 2025 - Councils braced for bigger cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Government votes to reject health and care NICs exemption 01 Apr 2025 - Bankruptcy warning over Send deficits 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of financial catastrophe in 12 months time, with ‘unmanageable’ SEND deficits risking bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing higher than expected 01 Apr 2025 - Funding resets should tie in with multi-year settlements, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Minister rules out council tax reform despite rallying calls 01 Apr 2025 - Warwickshire councils signal preference for two unitaries 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement: No more cash for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘flying blind’ on finances due to audit crisis 01 Apr 2025 - One million children could lose free school meals 01 Apr 2025 - Road repairs backlog nears £17bn 01 Apr 2025 - Section 114 notice legislation outdated and unhelpful, MPs hear 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: First reorg deadline a ‘temperature check’ 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: Strategic authorities ‘cannot deliver social care’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy unexpectedly shrank in January 01 Apr 2025 - NHS England Scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Freedoms to set planning fees must not exceed cost recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers in urgent plea for council help with Afghan refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Plan calls for Isle of Wight to retain own council in reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Consultants earn from reorganisation shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Local audit crisis: Hundreds more modified opinions after latest backstop 01 Apr 2025 - Plan to ‘mainstream’ use of mayoral precepts 01 Apr 2025 - Legal letter to ‘challenge impact’ of rural grant withdrawal 01 Apr 2025 - DCN: ‘Larger councils don’t perform better’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care costs cap will be starting point for all-party talks 01 Apr 2025 - Council finance system 'not fit for purpose', MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Planning committee membership will require ‘certificate’ 01 Apr 2025 - Eight buck trend by freezing council tax 01 Apr 2025 - LGC council tax tracker: 80% plan maximum hike 01 Apr 2025 - Legal claims against councils hit 10-year high 01 Apr 2025 - CCN: Smaller unitaries will create ‘unsustainable costs’ 01 Apr 2025 - CCN: Splitting up social care could cost £500m a year 01 Apr 2025 - Stretched capacity slows pace of reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - UASC Reaches 7,000 01 Apr 2025 - No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils 01 Apr 2025 - Unpaid council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Local audit crisis: some council accounts still outstanding months past backstop date 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders call for tough pay negotiating stance 01 Apr 2025 - Call to share welfare costs regionally 01 Apr 2025 - Free elderly bus travel under threat 01 Apr 2025 - Councils fear shake-up won't improve finances 01 Apr 2025 - How Send spending could bankrupt English councils 01 Apr 2025 - £1.5bn announced for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: Treasury needs ‘spending framework’ for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner: ‘We’re righting the wrong’ done to the north 01 Apr 2025 - Call to scrap ringfence in homelessness funding 01 Apr 2025 - Number of rough sleepers up by a fifth 01 Apr 2025 - Council bailouts could ‘create longer-term risk’, warns NAO 01 Apr 2025 - Minister: Reorganisation will not herald fiscal devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Balancing simplicity and substance in local authority accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Labour must target deprived areas or lose out to Reform, says former minister 01 Apr 2025 - £76m funding gap in temporary accommodation budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Council finances ‘unsustainable’, says NAO 01 Apr 2025 - Managing pension funds is a local distraction 01 Apr 2025 - MPs raise concerns over reorganisation costs 01 Apr 2025 - Tens of thousands of babies referred to social services 01 Apr 2025 - Extra £30m to combat homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Lords vote to exempt social care from NIC hike 01 Apr 2025 - Cumberland urged to address finance team staffing capacity 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate jumps to 10-month high of 3 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Sector calls for data and evidence to drive fair funding 01 Apr 2025 - Government finances in surplus but pressure builds on Reeves 01 Apr 2025 - "Early Adopters" School breakfast clubs announced 01 Apr 2025 - Hollinrake: Leaders to blame for s114 notices 01 Apr 2025 - Fixing SEND system calls for ‘bold and brave action’ 01 Apr 2025 - Exceptional Financial Support for 30 councils 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate jumps to 10-month high of 3% 01 Apr 2025 - Fair funding review must be transparent 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA sets out five principles to fix SEND failures 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £5m a week on unaccompanied child asylum seekers 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves warned UK inflation will push public sector unions to seek higher pay rises 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax: poorest households feeling the pinch the most, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns of £8bn funding gap by 2028-29 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers ‘mission-washing’ spending plans in effort to avoid cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Economy grew at the end of 2024 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises blamed on Reeves’s ‘disastrous’ £40bn raid 01 Apr 2025 - Government plans to stop ‘housing benefit going to rogue landlords’ 01 Apr 2025 - Funding crisis requires radicalism, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Woking faces ‘destructive’ cuts without further borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - County appoints chief 01 Apr 2025 - Florence Eshalomi: ‘I’m angry we haven’t solved the housing crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - No write-off of debts for reorganising authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding gap 'unbridgeable' 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire reorganisation unlikely to follow current boundaries 01 Apr 2025 - School place oversubscription 01 Apr 2025 - Bank cuts interest rates and slashes growth forecast 01 Apr 2025 - Civil servants could face sack for not saving money 01 Apr 2025 - Progressing with May election is 'massive distraction' 01 Apr 2025 - Under pressure small unitaries push back over reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon ‘formally invites’ two-tier reorganisation plans 01 Apr 2025 - Concern over debt as Surrey fast-tracked for reorganisatio 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner hopes for Lancashire mayor ‘by 2026’ 01 Apr 2025 - Lincolnshire Council elections go ahead as authority confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee cuts rates to 4.5% 01 Apr 2025 - Six proposals chosen for devolution fast track 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Home Office stops UASC incentive payments 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset leader’s warning to ‘think carefully’ about reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Nine polls cancelled as devo priority programme unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Councils still under strain as local government finance settlement published 01 Apr 2025 - NICs allocations 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor will either have to cut spending or raise taxes, economists say 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns of further cuts to services despite council tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: Council tax increases no substitute for fixing funding 01 Apr 2025 - Local Government Finance Settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Government unveils £60m ‘improvement’ fund 01 Apr 2025 - Government confirms £515m funding for NICs 01 Apr 2025 - Six requests for council tax hike approved 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of children need social care by 18, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary may appeal after court finds care fees ‘irrational’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted inspectors to evaluate Send inclusion in education 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers could allow council tax to rise by up to 25% to prevent bankruptcies 01 Apr 2025 - Tax on UK incinerators may push councils to send more waste to landfill 01 Apr 2025 - XL Bully ban stretching frontline police 01 Apr 2025 - CCN warns of ‘tax hikes and service cuts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Reorganisation evidence ‘not remotely up to date’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unions call for £3,000 pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Bournemouth could borrow £57.5m to cover SEND deficit 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: We ‘need convincing’ Local Audit Office needed 01 Apr 2025 - New unitary seeks exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - Commission pushes ahead with surveys despite elections uncertainty 01 Apr 2025 - Questions over financial impact of reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - DCN: Triple drainage board funding 01 Apr 2025 - HMRC does not know how much National Insurance it collects from councils 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: UK ‘not alone’ in tax revenues nearing record high 01 Apr 2025 - National Insurance contributions 01 Apr 2025 - Black bin collections 01 Apr 2025 - Planning staff shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Tax hike threatens to add to nursing home costs 01 Apr 2025 - District debt drives reorganisation resistance 01 Apr 2025 - 'No desire' to address short-term homelessness system 01 Apr 2025 - Deposit return scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises up to five times the legal limit as councils plug blackhole 01 Apr 2025 - Study reveals high costs of PFI contracts 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall rejects cross-border devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA analysis reveals councils’ ‘severe’ financial challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Social care spend tops four fifths of council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Frustration mounts over delay to National Insurance allocations 01 Apr 2025 - Councils at breaking point over temporary accommodation costs, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - LGA steps in to address North-South housing tensions 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Cruel and archaic’ prison threats over council tax must end – charities 01 Apr 2025 - PM vows to curb 'Nimby' legal blocks on infrastructure 01 Apr 2025 - Chief executive pay claim 01 Apr 2025 - Pay growth increase 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review date announced 01 Apr 2025 - Government's building maintenance backlog ‘allowed to increase’ 01 Apr 2025 - Mapping local government reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - James Maker: Reorganisation – what the government should do next 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon clarifies: ‘Councils will be required to reorganise’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA cuts warning over accounting rule change 01 Apr 2025 - Angela Rayner blocks plan for UK’s first seaside tourist tax 01 Apr 2025 - Number of school children receiving SEN support surges 40% 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: ‘Reorganisation is not required’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities ask for permission to raise council tax above referendum threshold 01 Apr 2025 - New Chief Executive appointed at Essex 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s homes run by private equity 01 Apr 2025 - Rashford’s holiday scheme for children wins reprieve after cuts fear 01 Apr 2025 - UK Growth Figures 01 Apr 2025 - ‘No sense of urgency’ from government on SEND crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Lincolnshire upper tiers seek two unitary reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: ‘Bar is very high’ for permitting election delays 01 Apr 2025 - Social care delays leading to ‘dangerously long’ hospital stays 01 Apr 2025 - Rebels with a cause 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry confirms 18 councils seeking election postponement 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers urged to reconsider pace of pensions reform 01 Apr 2025 - BCP votes to join Wessex devo bid 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire set to spend £14m on repairs at 61 schools 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows for first time in three months 01 Apr 2025 - Audit fees set to triple 01 Apr 2025 - Local roads are `riddled with potholes´ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils at loggerheads over devolution proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Counties' single unitary bids stir up districts 01 Apr 2025 - Cheshire East asks to raise council tax by 9.99% 01 Apr 2025 - MPs declare Send ‘emergency’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary set to ask for 7.99% council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Public service cuts have left many children’s basic needs unmet – research 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation unexpectedly falls to 2.5% in December 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole compensation 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of pothole damage hits record high 01 Apr 2025 - `Lost generation´ at risk of leaving school without vital SEND support, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - National Insurance compensation is 'total shambles' 01 Apr 2025 - Council leader calls for Woking BC debt ‘write off’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers consider ban on ransomware payments 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole repairs hit record low 01 Apr 2025 - Care providers facing “impossible choices” 01 Apr 2025 - Jones: Private sector to examine Whitehall efficiency 01 Apr 2025 - We can't wait for finance reform 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: Councils with ‘scarce resources’ need reorganisation support 01 Apr 2025 - Twelve new mayors in prospect as 42 bid to join devo fast track 01 Apr 2025 - Districts may ‘spend, spend, spend’ amid reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet to be ruthless with spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - AI Opportunities Action Plan being announced today 01 Apr 2025 - Special educational needs statutory override is 'abomination' 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform requires 'political courage' 01 Apr 2025 - It’s not clear MHCLG’s plans have been thought through 01 Apr 2025 - Call to monitor second jobs of four-day week staff 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner promises ‘can-do attitude’ for councils discussing flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner rejects reorganisation 'distraction' claim 01 Apr 2025 - REVEALED: 17 councils hope to join devolution fast track 01 Apr 2025 - SEN expansion could be costly - IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers should be transparent over NIC support 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England face ‘death by a thousand cuts’, headteachers say 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor on course to tighten Whitehall budgets further 01 Apr 2025 - Consider new tax to fund care for the elderly, Labour told 01 Apr 2025 - Planning bill due to be introduced in March 01 Apr 2025 - Scale of building challenge revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Half of English county councils could ask to delay elections 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury braced for mini-Budget as Reeves faces dilemma on tax or public services 01 Apr 2025 - All ‘credible’ devo priority applications to be approved 01 Apr 2025 - Foster carer shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Government launches adult social care commission 01 Apr 2025 - Streeting defends timescale for social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax arrears 01 Apr 2025 - Bumper profits for SEN private providers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be 'accountable' for care improvements as commission launched 01 Apr 2025 - 37 shops lost each day in 2024, data suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Derbyshire plans cuts amid £18m shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Local government recognised in New Year Honours 01 Apr 2025 - Bus passengers hit by ‘costly start to 2025’ after 50% rise in fares

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01 Apr 2025 - Reorganisation and council debt 01 Apr 2025 - Exeter to make unitary bid in local government reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Districts unite to rebutt county’s unitary proposal 01 Apr 2025 - £100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer ‘acutely aware’ of SEND risk 01 Apr 2025 - Tories set five test for restructuring 01 Apr 2025 - Areas with worst potholes revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be given greater powers 01 Apr 2025 - Developer accused of reneging on housing deal 01 Apr 2025 - Tougher rules to restrict new waste incinerators 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury must focus on prevention in UK public spending, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector could swap pay rises for lower pensions 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s care places costing more than £10,000 a week 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of children’s care places are costing councils more than £10,000 a week per child 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector could swap pay rises for lower pensions 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health sick days surge in public sector 01 Apr 2025 - Domestic abuse victims ‘will pay price of national insurance hikes’ 01 Apr 2025 - Areas with worst potholes revealed as Labour tells councils to ‘get on’ with repairs 01 Apr 2025 - Defra scraps England deadline to register thousands of miles of rights of way 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of council tax revenue spent on ‘unjustifiably generous’ staff pensions 01 Apr 2025 - Poor stops put people off bus travel - report 01 Apr 2025 - The council tax debt crisis pushing the poorest parts of England over the edge 01 Apr 2025 - Your car could be towed away by council and sold off at auction under new plan – if you make one of these easy mistakes 01 Apr 2025 - Rachel Reeves promises state school cash boost as Labour ends tax breaks for private education 01 Apr 2025 - Our care home is already £150k a year — tax rises will make it worse 01 Apr 2025 - Huge rise in young people off work driven by mental health issues 01 Apr 2025 - UK ministers warned housing crisis puts plans for NHS and economy at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury must focus on prevention in UK public spending, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to reconsider holding back some pothole funding 01 Apr 2025 - Mixed response to local government finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of ‘cherry picking’ funding towards urban and city councils 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Public back council funding hike 01 Apr 2025 - CCN backs reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Christmas cull 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts warnings after finance settlement announced 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall Council proposes job cuts ahead of Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate rises for second month in a row 01 Apr 2025 - Essential bus services to be protected by new law 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s bill seeks ‘to keep children safe’ 01 Apr 2025 - Three counties set to postpone elections 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves announces Spring Forecast 01 Apr 2025 - £2bn finance settlement boost announced 01 Apr 2025 - Ombudsman struggles to allocate cases 01 Apr 2025 - Public provision of audit considered 01 Apr 2025 - Owners of derelict shops and car parks will be forced to sell to build new homes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of acute pressures despite funding boost next year 01 Apr 2025 - Putting people first: CIPFA responds to Devolution White Paper 01 Apr 2025 - English councils slash culture spending by 50% 01 Apr 2025 - Government Shuts Down Oflog Citing Financial Concerns and Unclear Mandate 01 Apr 2025 - Essex districts divided on devo white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Owen Mapley: The case for simplifying local government 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over top-down devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Counties given ‘extraordinary’ deadline to cancel elections 01 Apr 2025 - Social care NICs exemption 01 Apr 2025 - REVEALED: Growing moves towards limit-busting council tax hikes 01 Apr 2025 - Cheshire East: Council to ask for exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - Sector call for council tax review 01 Apr 2025 - Use it or lose it, developers told as Labour targets ‘land banking’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner to launch ‘turning point’ devo white paper 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks 01 Apr 2025 - Windsor and Maidenhead wants 25% council tax increase amid section 114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham in ‘embarrassing’ discussion with MHCLG over accounts 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS reform: ‘We now know what the rules of the game are’ 01 Apr 2025 - Essex hopes to be devo ‘front-runner’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government recommends 2.8% pay rise for public sector 01 Apr 2025 - Divert NHS cash to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham equal pay claim settled 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness increase 01 Apr 2025 - Adult Social Care Risk 01 Apr 2025 - Cross-party committee launches finance inquiry 01 Apr 2025 - Government demands ‘immediate, mandatory’ housing plans from councils to build 1.5m homes 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: System for funding special educational needs is broken 01 Apr 2025 - Transforming Local Government Funding: IFS Report Highlights Key Issues and Innovative Solutions for England 01 Apr 2025 - Council-initiative recognised for making positive impact on social mobility 01 Apr 2025 - Stop non-priority spending, Treasury warns ministers 01 Apr 2025 - District to freeze council tax despite future deficit forecast 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary consults on 15% council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Unfortunate consequences’ of audit backstops emerge 01 Apr 2025 - Devon proposes £21,000 charge on schools for exclusions 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted: Not all children with Send should receive EHC plans 01 Apr 2025 - Frustration mounts over lack of care workforce strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset to ‘explore’ council tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: National Insurance hit could be £1.7bn 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review Shadowing Public Sector Workers 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding reform 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner: Housing targets are mandatory 01 Apr 2025 - Council proposes 15% council tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - DfE will not enter more safety valve agreements 01 Apr 2025 - Andy Smith: It’s time for Send reform and inclusive education 01 Apr 2025 - MPs back proportional representation system for UK elections in symbolic vote 01 Apr 2025 - Schools given £740m to adapt buildings for SEND pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Report finds ‘alarming erosion of governance capacity’ 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution white paper ‘by the end of the year’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be 'incentivised' to take preventative approach to homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Second Homes Decline 01 Apr 2025 - Let the funding battle commence 01 Apr 2025 - Two wrongs will not make a right 01 Apr 2025 - Recyclers and councils back Defra’s decision on four-bin collections 01 Apr 2025 - £1.1bn recycling tax windfall ‘may only fill the gaps’ 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire commit to mayoral devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in right to buy applications as ministers tighten rules 01 Apr 2025 - UK households may receive four standardised bins in major recycling overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Youth services funding 01 Apr 2025 - New deadlines set for fixing dangerous cladding 01 Apr 2025 - Backlash from councils over housing targets 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over timing of future local government finance reform 01 Apr 2025 - Policy statement: Warning of further cuts to services 01 Apr 2025 - Rural services grant scrapped as ministers unveil plans for funding ‘consolidation’ 01 Apr 2025 - Sector reacts to council finance reform plans 01 Apr 2025 - Delay to budget details 01 Apr 2025 - Local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - Four-bin standard to end ‘Wild West’ of council recycling 01 Apr 2025 - Rural services grant scrapped as ministers unveil plans for funding ‘consolidation’ 01 Apr 2025 - Struggling councils could raise tax to boost finances 01 Apr 2025 - Funding settlement to target deprivation 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s minister promises settlement cash for early intervention 01 Apr 2025 - National Insurance hike 'catastrophic' for care 01 Apr 2025 - 13,000 new children’s social workers needed in next decade 01 Apr 2025 - Public spending cuts from 2026 as Reeves vows no more tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Cambs in bid to rescue £49m funding deal 01 Apr 2025 - DWP reform plan hailed for ‘place-based’ approach 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers must not overplay potential efficiency savings 01 Apr 2025 - Getting Britain working again 01 Apr 2025 - National Audit Office ‘disclaims’ accounts because of shortcomings in auditing of English local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax set to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers draw up devolution plans 01 Apr 2025 - PM challenged on West's councils facing bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Budget measures create £2.8bn social care cost pressure 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Public health should run through everything a council does’ 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy Changes 01 Apr 2025 - £2.3bn school transport bill ‘too urgent’ to wait for Whitehall 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole compensation claims more than double in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services shake-up ‘needs funding to succeed’ 01 Apr 2025 - Woking's debt hits £2.1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Call for courage over failing council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Tributes pour in for ‘giant of British politics’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation rises 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘very aware’ of national insurance concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Minister reveals ‘tiered approach’ for reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Government to cap profits on children’s homes 01 Apr 2025 - County council issues bankruptcy warning 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises will ensure local authorities are funded next year, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - £1bn boost for buses 01 Apr 2025 - 'Genuine impasse' at top of government about social care plan 01 Apr 2025 - 'Exploitative' children's home profits to be curbed 01 Apr 2025 - UK growth slows 01 Apr 2025 - Asylum seeking children in care 01 Apr 2025 - 'Write off the debts or reorganisation will fail' 01 Apr 2025 - Bishop Fleming quits third council 01 Apr 2025 - Concern as national insurance compensation yet to be confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Worcestershire set for £12.5m overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves in radical pension shake-up to boost growth 01 Apr 2025 - Minister’s pledge on finance reform 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs told settlement will be 19 December 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax bills could rise by 5 per cent after Labour keeps cap in place 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) - 13 November 2024 01 Apr 2025 - How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education 01 Apr 2025 - Retailers warn Reeves of inflation and job losses after Budget tax hikes 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in NICs ‘will endanger public health services’ 01 Apr 2025 - New powers for councils to tackle empty shops 01 Apr 2025 - Half of 1.5 million new homes will be social or rented 01 Apr 2025 - Council services to decline despite extra spending 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of young people were placed in council care more than 20 miles away from their home last year due to a lack of available alternatives 01 Apr 2025 - CCN: £190m less for counties with deprivation allocation approach 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves to call for consolidation of £354bn council pension funds 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of cost of care of working age adults 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock threat to sue other councils after financial collapse 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA boss dismisses independent funding body call 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy could end for new council homes 01 Apr 2025 - 'Ghost buses' and cut services: Passengers complain as bus cap rises 01 Apr 2025 - BoE lowers rates for second time in 2024 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves promises not to increase taxes again in spring budget 01 Apr 2025 - Tenants may not be able to buy new council homes – Rayner 01 Apr 2025 - ADASS: Adult social care overspend hits £564m 01 Apr 2025 - Household support funding set to fall from 2025 01 Apr 2025 - Counties delay peer challenges 01 Apr 2025 - Call to fully fund National Living Wage rise to keep care 'afloat' 01 Apr 2025 - Hollinrake appointed shadow communities secretary 01 Apr 2025 - UKSPF allocations slashed by 40% 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis reveals who gets the most – and least – pothole funding 01 Apr 2025 - Social care committee chair: ‘We need to make the case to Treasury’ 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness funding in Budget ‘unlikely to bridge gap’ 01 Apr 2025 - Covid corruption tsar may probe council-distributed grants 01 Apr 2025 - Andrew Cozens: Adult social care has missed the fiscal boat 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Big numbers, big promises and big changes 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Budget may not prevent councils collapsing 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes will close as a result of Budget, leader warns 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Council chiefs call for ‘explicit clarity’ on NI increases 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers seek ‘simpler’ council structures through reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set to get 3.2% increase in spending power 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up projects scrapped and shared prosperity fund scaled back 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax set to rise despite extra funding for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Budget 01 Apr 2025 - How Starmer can solve the SEND crisis, according to frontline staff 01 Apr 2025 - Rachel Reeves to deliver first Budget as tax rises and spending cuts expected 01 Apr 2025 - Minimum wage rise 01 Apr 2025 - MJ EXCLUSIVE: Government to launch full reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax referendum limits 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy reform 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for metro mayors 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for school rebuilds 01 Apr 2025 - Plea for Defra to cover full waste costs not estimates 01 Apr 2025 - Promise of a new relationship between local and central government 01 Apr 2025 - Government to share temporary accommodation costs with councils 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors to be allowed to attend meetings virtually 01 Apr 2025 - Talks over workforce and recruitment pressures revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers look to strengthen councillor standards 01 Apr 2025 - Dozen talk to ministry over exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for full waste service costs under EPR 01 Apr 2025 - Local government pay offer accepted after poor turnout 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers pause plans to open 44 new state schools in England 01 Apr 2025 - Budget deals struck with all departments, says Reeves 01 Apr 2025 - Households dumped 5.6m tonnes of packaging waste last year – councils 01 Apr 2025 - IFS highlights ‘unresolved’ social care issues 01 Apr 2025 - Waste reform cost fears 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy returned to growth in August 01 Apr 2025 - School rebuilding delays 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls want 10 per cent council tax rise to deliver housing targets 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation in surprise fall to lowest in three years 01 Apr 2025 - One in four councils likely to request exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warning over audit fees 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon chairs first Council of Leaders 01 Apr 2025 - How some councils are tackling huge deficits 01 Apr 2025 - Keir Starmer faces cabinet backlash over budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock leader: ‘We want to move away from a capitalisation model’ 01 Apr 2025 - Newham seeks EFS to stave off section 114 – but says only funding reform will prevent ‘exceptional becoming normal’ 01 Apr 2025 - First national guide on kinship care published 01 Apr 2025 - Councils divert half of council tax revenue to address homelessness crisis 01 Apr 2025 - English Councils Join Project to Explore Prevention Spending 01 Apr 2025 - Crisis of confidence 01 Apr 2025 - Further clarity sought over possible Cumbria mayor 01 Apr 2025 - Solace: Underfunding councils 'ultimate false economy' 01 Apr 2025 - New Solace chair and president revealed 01 Apr 2025 - SEND funding formula ‘unfair’, councillor says 01 Apr 2025 - £15m fund launched to support childcare expansion 01 Apr 2025 - Council Unbelievably Close to Declaring Bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - LGA funding warning ahead of the Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn special educational needs deficits mean they could go bankrupt 'overnight' 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Director Paul Johnson announces move to Queen’s College, Oxford in summer 2025 01 Apr 2025 - Councils require cyber security 'step change' 01 Apr 2025 - Children face 'lifetime cost' of council crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Government housing targets unrealistic and unfair, English councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Mortgage costs 'unlikely' to return to low levels 01 Apr 2025 - Labour hints at national insurance rise for employers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn Chancellor that support for most vulnerable is under threat 01 Apr 2025 - We must stem tide of British care workers leaving their jobs, new report warns 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves 'must find billions more' in time for Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Rough sleeping will soar unless Labour fills £1bn shortfall, charities say 01 Apr 2025 - Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Child Protection Investigations 01 Apr 2025 - City and counties put in conflicting devo bids 01 Apr 2025 - Uncertainty over trailblazer deals 01 Apr 2025 - Higher spend on prevention could deliver £11bn return 01 Apr 2025 - Councils illegally turning young homeless people away, charity warns 01 Apr 2025 - Council must find ‘significant’ savings in adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - CCN: councils face ‘unpalatable trade-off’ between reducing services and ‘insolvency’ 01 Apr 2025 - Independent funding body distribution call 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry exploring increasing HRA limit 01 Apr 2025 - Councils on standby for Lebanon evacuation 01 Apr 2025 - 'Decades of neglect' impact on fire safety enforcement 01 Apr 2025 - Bidding pots launched despite ministerial pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Economist floats payroll tax idea 01 Apr 2025 - Building costs may exceed house prices in 60 council areas 01 Apr 2025 - Gove regrets ‘unfinished’ devolution business 01 Apr 2025 - Former minister blames failure to build for Tory ‘downfall’ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove admits local government took ‘unfair’ share of austerity 01 Apr 2025 - MOTB: the ‘jaws of doom’ are closing on local government 01 Apr 2025 - Councils have ‘done their bit’: majority publish draft accounts amid audit reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine Changes from 1st October 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Billions of levelling up cash in doubt 01 Apr 2025 - £68m in Pension Credit is unclaimed, Kent says 01 Apr 2025 - Tory leadership contenders apologise to councillors 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk faces £45m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Empty council homes hit 70,000 01 Apr 2025 - Comment: Public sector debt rules 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves urged to raise council tax in £5bn shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves: ‘investment is the solution’ 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 2,500 social care complaints to ombudsman 01 Apr 2025 - Minister: ‘Council tax is terrible but it’s the best we have’ 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon drops diversity scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - Minister: ‘We can’t devolve a system that is falling over’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner hints at 'fairer' Right to Buy 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves says 'no return to austerity' 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves could change fiscal rules to allow more capital spending, say sources 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire CC approves £35m residential care contract 01 Apr 2025 - Minister: ‘It is not acceptable’ to not have a mayor 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: ‘money must go to the right places’ 01 Apr 2025 - Keir Starmer vows to protect public services from fresh austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Incineration tax warning 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves won’t scrap single person council tax discount 01 Apr 2025 - Holden: We can't avoid reorganisation debate 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner confirms four devolution agreements 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Something major needs to change’ to fix ‘fundamentally broken’ funding system, says LATIF panel 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Reputational risks’ impact inter-authority lending amid debt scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB rates drop by 80 basis points 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities handle 38% increase in health-related benefit claims in four years 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Bombshell’ incineration tax proposals ‘must be reviewed’ 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over new homes targets 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could face multi-billion-pound costs from new tax 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation rate holds steady in August at 2.2% 01 Apr 2025 - Unlawful care homes ‘profiteer’ from at-risk children 01 Apr 2025 - Social Care Cash Warning 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax increase on second homes leads to surge in sell-offs 01 Apr 2025 - MP urges more council powers over holiday lets 01 Apr 2025 - Health ministers pressing Treasury to fund ‘a lot of prevention projects’ 01 Apr 2025 - Labour scraps counties' devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - Audit fee hike planned 01 Apr 2025 - Future Forum Midlands: CIPFA chief calls for reorganisation debate 01 Apr 2025 - Future Forum Midlands: Caller warns councils face 'appalling decisions' 01 Apr 2025 - Local government parliamentary committee gets new chair 01 Apr 2025 - Government considering PFI programmes 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Money expert Martin Lewis urges councils to give debtors more time 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for funding alongside new bus powers 01 Apr 2025 - Audit backlog hinders reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Questions over future of exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - No clarity on productivity plans update requirement 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review Oflog role 01 Apr 2025 - UNISON: councils ‘teetering on the brink of financial disaster’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy unexpectedly flatlines for second month in row 01 Apr 2025 - Government begins process to implement audit backstop dates 01 Apr 2025 - Former committee chair urges government to fix ‘broken’ system 01 Apr 2025 - Greater data sharing call after Reeves restricts winter fuel payments 01 Apr 2025 - Martin Lewis: Councils collect unpaid tax like ‘worst loan sharks’ 01 Apr 2025 - Second homes for sale treble after council tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham chief: ‘We are going to have to reduce services’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ombudsman: ‘The pressures are even more acute than I thought’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for a fairer HRA model and right to buy reform 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy scheme could be reformed 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell inquiry: K&C failures prompt call to hand ministers emergency powers 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell inquiry highlights Government and council failings 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in England draining reserves to stay afloat, leaders say 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up projects to discover fate 01 Apr 2025 - Waverley to consult on ‘voluntary council tax’ 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Council tax reform ‘must be on the table’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome New Homes Accelerator 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend record £1bn on temporary accommodation 01 Apr 2025 - Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services 01 Apr 2025 - English council coalition calls for emergency £644m to fund housing 01 Apr 2025 - Angela Rayner refuses to rule out scrapping council tax exemption for people living alone 01 Apr 2025 - Families not getting enough help before crisis point, charities warn 01 Apr 2025 - Household support fund extended 01 Apr 2025 - Tax on second homes 01 Apr 2025 - LGA on council tax referendums 01 Apr 2025 - New Ofsted school grades will not confuse parents - PM 01 Apr 2025 - Councils demand power to impose unlimited tax hikes 01 Apr 2025 - New homes accelerator launched 01 Apr 2025 - New Homes Bonus expansion floated 01 Apr 2025 - Investigation: ‘The £100k schools failing vulnerable children’ 01 Apr 2025 - Household support fund to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset councils owed £45m in council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Care providers call for reform of hospital discharge process 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Spiralling cost of children’s homes 01 Apr 2025 - Haigh: Councils should decide on traffic measures 01 Apr 2025 - Fire chiefs call for legal duty on extreme weather response 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol council leader issues Section 114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £1.7bn repurchasing right-to-buy homes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils reach agreement to bring waste facility into operation 01 Apr 2025 - Jonathan Carr-West: New government brings encouraging signs of change 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall chief: ‘We’re a big, confident, place leading authority’ 01 Apr 2025 - Feature: How devolution has reshaped bus services in London and Manchester 01 Apr 2025 - 'Decade needed to fix Britain', Starmer warns 01 Apr 2025 - Expect more economic pain to come, warns senior UK cabinet minister 01 Apr 2025 - Councils not confident of childcare capacity 01 Apr 2025 - Calls made for Household Support Fund to be extended again to protect vulnerable people 01 Apr 2025 - What councils need to know about planning proposals 01 Apr 2025 - LGA launches national recruitment campaign 01 Apr 2025 - Cheshire to start devolution talks 'within weeks' 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Share government data to boost economy’, says UK statistics watchdog chief 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax reform 01 Apr 2025 - Pension plan risks 01 Apr 2025 - Ten bins per household ‘too much to ask’ 01 Apr 2025 - Investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh 01 Apr 2025 - Ministerial team at MHCLG revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham’s financial support should be ‘redrawn’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cheshire East sets out plan to tackle £100m deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham slated over pay cut plans 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: Minister’s stance on hybrid meetings ‘encouraging’ 01 Apr 2025 - Abolish grant support for five local authorities to raise £600m, think-tank suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Leader calls for inquiry into Thurrock’s finances 01 Apr 2025 - Questions raised over Brum’s decision to issue s114 01 Apr 2025 - Flood management funding ‘not working’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns of ‘impending cliff-edge’ when support fund ends 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax freeze demanded as analysis shows receipts have TRIPLE in just 24 years 01 Apr 2025 - Warning safety valve programme ‘falls short’ in solving Send crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Unite: ‘Pay spine review could have started months ago’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation rate rises for first time this year to 2.2% 01 Apr 2025 - Employers reject unions’ call for fresh pay talks 01 Apr 2025 - Councils agree on how to split Northamptonshire's final balance 01 Apr 2025 - Council issues s114 warning due to SEND crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers warned to prepare for tough decisions on spending 01 Apr 2025 - UK potholes mapped: the app powered by 10,000 drivers 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers warned cash will only go on Labour’s five missions 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates put 17,000 shops at risk of closing, Labour warned 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be given powers to buy up green belt land cheaply 01 Apr 2025 - Concern over local roads reaches record high 01 Apr 2025 - Larger houses needed for social rent to tackle ‘worrying’ overcrowding 01 Apr 2025 - Council pins hopes on 'family-style' children's home 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves to order ministers to make major savings 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to take legal action over solar farm permission 01 Apr 2025 - Labour reaffirms commitment to National Care Service 01 Apr 2025 - United call following homelessness surge 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Reeves to remove barriers to pension investment 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit new low in value for money survey 01 Apr 2025 - Call to expand ‘powerful’ scheme supporting children in care 01 Apr 2025 - New Adass chief appointed 01 Apr 2025 - Unfair variations in energy costs hit councils by £700m 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Debt definition tweak could give more ‘headroom’ – but fundamentals would not change 01 Apr 2025 - Woking publishes three years of draft statements of accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to disperse asylum seekers around country 01 Apr 2025 - Wes Streeting backs cross-party approach to fix social care 01 Apr 2025 - James Maker: Government has much convincing to do on national care service 01 Apr 2025 - REVEALED: Spend on hotels up almost 200% amid housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Unpaid council tax surges to £6bn 01 Apr 2025 - Newham at risk of turning to Government over housing cost pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Growing weaknesses in councils’ financial sustainability and governance arrangements 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of local finance reform a 'big mistake' – Travers 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding targets are a ‘real blow to local democracy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Graham Chapman: Labour’s plans for local government are underwhelming 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Unrelenting’ social care funding plan must be Reeves’ priority, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Minimum number of youth workers needed, says youth agency 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘keen’ to discuss remote meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Report calls for spending review reform 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates cut 01 Apr 2025 - A ‘positive’ step on the audit backlog, but there’s a long road ahead 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS costs exceed target 01 Apr 2025 - Praise for more flexibility over right to buy receipts 01 Apr 2025 - Richard Humphries: New government has made rocky start on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Councils facing soaring cost of special needs education 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - UK ‘needs mandatory national insurance scheme’ to fund social care 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare pledge in England in peril 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh fiscal devolution push as cuts loom 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to hand council tax powers to local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Think different to stop presenteeism costing billions in lost productivity – thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s housing plans: ‘still significant need for public sector subsidy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care needs ‘new approach’ after charging reforms dropped 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Bad optics’ as government drops social care training fund 01 Apr 2025 - Mapped: Housing targets for each council under proposed method 01 Apr 2025 - Sector reassures after private school VAT change confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to devolve council tax powers 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Grey belt’ defined in proposed planning reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Householder planning application fees could be doubled 01 Apr 2025 - Angela Rayner´s plans for `council house revolution´ welcomed 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy changes 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation on right-to-buy reform announced 01 Apr 2025 - Private schools forced to charge VAT from January 01 Apr 2025 - Winter fuel payments scrapped for millions 01 Apr 2025 - Fixing SEND Education 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for long-term funding to build 200,000 social homes 01 Apr 2025 - Call for urgent action over Carers Allowance overpayments 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves takes aim at £22bn fiscal hole in scathing speech 01 Apr 2025 - Redmond: ‘More attention needed on local audit’ 01 Apr 2025 - Union accuses county of ‘brutal’ fire and rehire plans 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: council pay ‘must be addressed’ as unions consider strikes 01 Apr 2025 - New audit backstop date revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor scraps adult social care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Funding streams to be ‘consolidated’ in finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Right to buy ‘undermines’ housing efforts 01 Apr 2025 - Council’s £500k social media spend criticised 01 Apr 2025 - Government to kick off planning consultation 01 Apr 2025 - ULEZ working even better than expected, Khan says 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: Existing devolution deals may be improved 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay 01 Apr 2025 - VAT on school fees could raise less than half the sum expected 01 Apr 2025 - Comment: School fees 01 Apr 2025 - UK public finances: the state of each sector in charts 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding on grey belt land 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves set to axe projects to plug budget shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform funding diverted to system delivery 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax hikes on second homes backfiring 01 Apr 2025 - Call for clarity on decarbonising buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Officers fear raising financial concerns could jeopardise their jobs 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk devo decision postponed 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves set to reveal public finance shortfall of billions 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon: finance settlement in December 01 Apr 2025 - Public finance shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - CQC not fit for purpose 01 Apr 2025 - Social care request variation ‘unacceptable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor hints at public sector pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax bills hit £10,000 under second homes crackdown 01 Apr 2025 - Record 487,000 people given dementia diagnosis by their GP 01 Apr 2025 - Pension fund investment 01 Apr 2025 - Six tips to improve public services in the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis reveals £30bn funding hole in care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Local government faces 2.4% spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness pressures 'unsustainable' 01 Apr 2025 - Planning funding restoration needed to meet homes target 01 Apr 2025 - Skills England to bring together central and local government 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire’s resources drop by more than £260m 01 Apr 2025 - ‘A relationship reset’: Rayner outlines plans to tackle local government financial crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Government failing to track pothole funding, auditors warn 01 Apr 2025 - Care home numbers down by 1,500 01 Apr 2025 - 'Too costly to answer our own questions' 01 Apr 2025 - Care sector needs 540,000 workers by 2040 01 Apr 2025 - 'Nothing should be off the table' – CIPFA chief 01 Apr 2025 - King's Speech: A plan for devolution 01 Apr 2025 - King’s Speech: Labour commits to ‘modernising planning committees’ 01 Apr 2025 - King's Speech: OBR handed beefed-up scrutiny role 01 Apr 2025 - Home school register plans launched in King’s Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Tobacco bill ‘to save £1.9bn per year’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation holds steady 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner sets September deadline for devolution bids 01 Apr 2025 - Andrew Cozens: New ministers must quickly confirm social care intentions 01 Apr 2025 - Integrated care systems show ‘signs of progress’ but need flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - King’s speech targets growth 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset Council leader calls for urgent action 01 Apr 2025 - Multi-year settlements: Delay could see more ‘fall off a cliff’ 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to invite England’s ‘devolution deserts’ to take on more power 01 Apr 2025 - Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils 01 Apr 2025 - Owen Mapley: ‘forging a new path for CIPFA’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Decade of renewal’: 20 authorities call for new government to save council housing 01 Apr 2025 - Unlocking the power of devolution not straightforward but could make ‘big difference’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Basic, core’ services in danger as budget gap set to rise to £83.6m 01 Apr 2025 - Economic growth 01 Apr 2025 - Labour plans cross-party royal commission to fix social care 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of homes 01 Apr 2025 - Regional mayors “deserve more powers” 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit second homeowners with cynical tax raid 01 Apr 2025 - "Massive Waste" In How Local Councils Are Funded 01 Apr 2025 - GMB accepts local government pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Industrial action ballot ‘likely’ as Unite rejects pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - DfT begins ‘bus revolution’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA chair: Councils need to 'keep' up with new Government 01 Apr 2025 - Council housing landlords warn of £2.2bn ‘black hole’ 01 Apr 2025 - Water bills set to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of social care 01 Apr 2025 - National Wealth Fund to be created 01 Apr 2025 - Councils create largest fostering partnership 01 Apr 2025 - Badenoch takes shadow communities role 01 Apr 2025 - Council offers to brief Farage on SEND pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Shropshire could cut 540 job posts 01 Apr 2025 - Housing targets ‘essential’ to solve crisis but councils need ‘proper levers’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council's four-day week 'maintains service' 01 Apr 2025 - Rachel Reeves first speech 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC renamed to drop ‘levelling up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner promises ‘full reset’ of local government relationship 01 Apr 2025 - Council to consider paying £47m extra for waste service 01 Apr 2025 - South Cambs’ four-day week trial shows ‘positive’ results 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon and Pennycook announced as ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Education Secretary begins teacher recruitment 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding, planning, and growth 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Over 70 new MPs with council backgrounds 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister urged to include voice of England’s counties in meeting with metro-mayors next week 01 Apr 2025 - Councils on the brink hope for lifeline 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care 01 Apr 2025 - 'There's not a huge amount of money there', warns Reeves 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer appoints new cabinet 01 Apr 2025 - Angela Rayner appointed levelling up secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer to decide priorities to keep the UK going 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to step down 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC team wipeout in Labour landslide 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-Strapped Councils Locked Out of Crucial Funding Source 01 Apr 2025 - Labour wins General Election 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall readies for tough times ahead 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS quizzed in Labour economic growth push 01 Apr 2025 - Council pays family £1,500 after school transport failure 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA LASAAC looks to long-term local audit fix 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap council tax referendum limits, says DCN 01 Apr 2025 - First ‘tourist tax’ on hold 01 Apr 2025 - Capital spending hampering services 01 Apr 2025 - Just over half of councils feel LGA value for money 01 Apr 2025 - Next government set to benefit from fall in inflation and fuel prices 01 Apr 2025 - Leeds council proposes SEND transport overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness spending triples in eight years 01 Apr 2025 - NHS debt to council climbs by £11m in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ confidence for childcare roll-out ‘worryingly low’ 01 Apr 2025 - Labour could bring in automatic voter registration 01 Apr 2025 - How should we fund public infrastructure? 01 Apr 2025 - Localis: Labour and Tories share ‘common neglect’ of council capacity issues 01 Apr 2025 - ‘More good authorities will need help’, warns outgoing Cipfa chief 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC criticised for ‘sitting on’ Cipfa debt reviews 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grew more than estimated in early 2024 01 Apr 2025 - Planning system not to blame for lack of building 01 Apr 2025 - Unpaid UK carers ‘face financial hit that can last decades’ 01 Apr 2025 - Teenagers ‘crying out’ for return of youth clubs in England, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Britain's pothole problem is five times worse than previously thought 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Asylum dispersals tied to pressure on services 01 Apr 2025 - Kent warns of ‘challenging’ budget setting and capital programme delivery 01 Apr 2025 - Party manifestos offer “not a clue” for resolving local government funding gap, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire set to quit transport partnership 01 Apr 2025 - Avoiding the iceberg 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA calls for governance overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledge on council funding 01 Apr 2025 - NAO tells auditors to continue as planned despite backstop delay 01 Apr 2025 - Manifestos ‘continuing conspiracy of silence’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority spending budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Households brace for £600 rise in council tax 01 Apr 2025 - LGA statement on adult social care narrative 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Hundreds of councils’ at risk of financial failure if local government is not taken seriously 01 Apr 2025 - Service cuts likely, think-tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Chief attacks ‘strange’ funding pots that force councils to borrow 01 Apr 2025 - Workforce: ‘Services are stretched too thin’ 01 Apr 2025 - Finance directors tighten grip on spending 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorkshire Council to invest £11.6m in temporary accommodation 01 Apr 2025 - Build 90,000 social homes per year, party leaders told 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of funding hindering road safety, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Warnings over Labour devolution drive 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dem £300m pothole pledge ‘won’t scratch the surface’ 01 Apr 2025 - Landmark fossil fuel ruling has ‘profound’ implications for planning 01 Apr 2025 - Interest Rates held at 5.25% 01 Apr 2025 - Care workers say pay rise needed to save sector 01 Apr 2025 - Parties´ `silence on council funding remarkable considering challenges´ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA adult social care statement 01 Apr 2025 - New LGA annual conference date revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Councils and NHS row over Better Care Fund use 01 Apr 2025 - Sir Keir: We need to review voter ID rules 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Glacial’ progress on levelling up means more resources needed, says thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Labour would use part of NHS budget to buy beds in care homes 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation falls to 2% 01 Apr 2025 - How key manifesto promises from the three main parties compare 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges leave questions over council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils expect £1bn shortfall in special educational needs 01 Apr 2025 - UNISON: More than two-thirds of council youth centres lost 01 Apr 2025 - Questions about details and timing of Labour manifesto proposals 01 Apr 2025 - King recognises council chiefs in honours 01 Apr 2025 - The teacher giving bullied SEN pupils a ‘second home’ at school 01 Apr 2025 - Places in council-run children’s homes in England fall by third as private firms take over 01 Apr 2025 - Greens to push for council tax revaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Labour manifesto ‘dodges’ social care issue 01 Apr 2025 - Labour’s housing plan must ‘restore funding’ 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA responds to Labour’s election manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA responds to the Conservative election manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA responds to the Lib Dem election manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - Labour manifesto: Multi-year funding, business rates reform and £745m for public services 01 Apr 2025 - Labour promises ‘immediate’ update to planning framework 01 Apr 2025 - Labour reveals ‘deep’ social care reform ambition 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges £95m for youth hubs 01 Apr 2025 - Labour would review combined authority governance 01 Apr 2025 - Labour manifesto pledges Right to Buy curbs 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges to fix one million potholes 01 Apr 2025 - More than a million apply for vote 01 Apr 2025 - Full dispersal asylum targets still in draft 01 Apr 2025 - UKMBA still reliant on LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Councils consider legal advice over waste guidance 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy fails to grow during wet April 01 Apr 2025 - Benefits bills to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Planning permissions at lowest level since 2005 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of children with EHCPs 01 Apr 2025 - Labours pothole pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Green party launch manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - Half of cyclists say road conditions are dangerous 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives pledge business rates retention expansion 01 Apr 2025 - Conservative manifesto to pledge no council tax revaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives to launch manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding still lower than 14 years ago 01 Apr 2025 - Call to reset government-council relationship 01 Apr 2025 - Councils bring in over £127m in bus lane fines 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall warning over 'heightened' care provider failure risk 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Neither party seems serious’: IFS criticises Labour and Tory approach to fiscal rules 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Significant costs’ as registrations surge after election announcement 01 Apr 2025 - Judge: Kent must accommodate UAS children 'irrespective' of resources 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt rules out ‘expensive’ council tax revaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Labour vows to 'pull up shutters' for small business 01 Apr 2025 - Families homeless - but 33,000 properties are empty 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to pledge no increase in 'big three' taxes in 'triple lock' promise 01 Apr 2025 - Liberal Democrat manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - LGA funding gap analysis 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding still lower than 14 years ago 01 Apr 2025 - ‘There’s life in the UK economy’ as growth forecast upgraded 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in financial crisis predicted to double 01 Apr 2025 - Gove silent after LGA letter on Oflog 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in STIs 01 Apr 2025 - Some councils spending large proportion of budgets on temporary housing 01 Apr 2025 - Growth at heart of LGA White Paper 01 Apr 2025 - Audit backlog hindering publication of 2023/24 accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Move to home education biggest since pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Election winners face painful school cash choices – report 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems pledge free personal care for adults 01 Apr 2025 - CCN: Oflog reform and long-term funding needed from next government 01 Apr 2025 - Hoare: We still want productivity plans 01 Apr 2025 - Council rejects film studio plans despite Hollywood backing 01 Apr 2025 - Election stalls devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - National service funding proposal shows ‘disconnect’ between levelling up rhetoric and action 01 Apr 2025 - Public health grant cut by over 20% 01 Apr 2025 - Reeves: No return to austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up details confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems in public health cuts reversal pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Think-tank urges slashing of competitive funds 01 Apr 2025 - Council workers’ incomes ‘cut to the bone’, warns union 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 85,000 childcare places needed, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Labours tax plans 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges to revive four key bills 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives’ pledge to transform 30 towns 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to extend the sugar tax 01 Apr 2025 - National service funding proposal shows ‘disconnect’ between levelling up rhetoric and action 01 Apr 2025 - Finances ‘extremely precarious’: County Councils Network warning for the next government 01 Apr 2025 - Minister calls for cross-party solution to 'broken’ funding 01 Apr 2025 - Devon and Torbay devo deal in doubt over election timing 01 Apr 2025 - National service threat to Shared Prosperity Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Tower Hamlets Best Value Inspection extended 01 Apr 2025 - Michael Gove steps down in mass exodus of MPs before election 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in public health funerals 01 Apr 2025 - Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance 01 Apr 2025 - The year the state pension will start to collapse – whoever wins the election 01 Apr 2025 - How Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder 01 Apr 2025 - Tories pledge 'Triple Lock Plus' pension allowance 01 Apr 2025 - Private school parents warned state places are scarce 01 Apr 2025 - Public services need serious reform, say sector leaders 01 Apr 2025 - RAC: Councils take ‘wildly differing approaches’ to potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Snap election creates ‘massive challenges’ 01 Apr 2025 - Windsor and Maidenhead issues section 114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to decide on annual conference 'in coming days' 01 Apr 2025 - MacAlister: Not enough has changed on children's social care 01 Apr 2025 - General Election brings raft of reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Councils given 100,000 asylum housing target 01 Apr 2025 - Unison advises members to reject pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding reduced by a quarter since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July 01 Apr 2025 - Bailiff usage soars by nearly 50% as council debt blackhole hits £2.4bn, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - `Councils refusing to fix potholes deemed too small´ 01 Apr 2025 - Housing crisis has become ‘significantly worse’ in past year 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorkshire bans public questions at budget meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Right-to-buy needs ‘radically different approach’ 01 Apr 2025 - Proposed audit backstop dates deemed ‘unacceptable’ 01 Apr 2025 - IMF warning of £30bn fiscal hole 01 Apr 2025 - UK Inflation falls to 2.3% 01 Apr 2025 - LGA launches attack on DfT over traffic fine surplus plans 01 Apr 2025 - Frustration over ‘burden’ of productivity plans 01 Apr 2025 - Homes England beating targets 01 Apr 2025 - BT: Too many councils failing to engage 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner reveals plans for New Towns Code 01 Apr 2025 - Internal drainage board costs reach ‘unprecedented’ levels 01 Apr 2025 - Council employees offered 5.8% pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Why levelling up needs to change 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax in England increased 50 per cent faster than inflation between 98 and 23 01 Apr 2025 - What happens when councils take control of buses? 01 Apr 2025 - 30,000 OAPs die every year while waiting for help from Britain's broken social care system 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords face rent caps under Labour 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents 01 Apr 2025 - The stealth £11,000 council tax rise as 'Britain's worst designed tax' has outstripped inflation by 50% 01 Apr 2025 - LGA slams ‘ridiculous’ council salary bill 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs: 2.5% pay rise offer ‘ends discrimination’ 01 Apr 2025 - `Full and final´ pay offer made to 1.5 million council workers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils struggle to meet care plan deadlines 01 Apr 2025 - UK free school meal allowances too low for healthy lunches, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords selling up leaving 2,000 households a month facing homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Net zero policy changes will hit UK infrastructure, say government advisers 01 Apr 2025 - Coca-Cola is accused of misleading consumers over its plastic pledges 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of ‘urgency’ over new Oflog chair 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset to save £8m with 201 redundancies 01 Apr 2025 - £50m of exceptional financial support agreed for Lambeth LBC 01 Apr 2025 - Wales pushes back council tax reform 01 Apr 2025 - Government advisers urge overhaul of infrastructure funding 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog league tables journalist defends article 01 Apr 2025 - Four councils continue to dodge corporate peer challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham has much to do to bridge £172m budget gap, says departing improvement board 01 Apr 2025 - UK free school meal allowances too low for healthy lunches, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Hotel tax in first coastal region set to generate £2m 01 Apr 2025 - LGA survey: 30% ‘not confident’ of meeting care duties next year 01 Apr 2025 - Safeguarding panel calls for register of home-educated children 01 Apr 2025 - New boundaries in Coventry, Surrey and Staffordshire council areas 01 Apr 2025 - Government criticised over free school meals threshold freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset’s £24m-a-year waste contract at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh local government cuts warning 01 Apr 2025 - Total Place: ‘Buy in from the Treasury made it unique’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rutland residents face highest council tax bills 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces 16 new special free schools 01 Apr 2025 - Anger over fortnightly waste collection rule 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Local politics shows up national realities 01 Apr 2025 - Killian lobbied to halt work with watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh Right to Buy devolution call 01 Apr 2025 - Four in 10 council homes sold under right to buy owned by private landlords 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England edges closer to summer cut 01 Apr 2025 - UK exits recession with fastest growth in two years 01 Apr 2025 - Devon CC to invest £12m in pothole and drainage works 01 Apr 2025 - Call to fix ‘incomplete patchwork’ of devolution deals 01 Apr 2025 - Council invests emergency £5m to tackle ‘potholes menace’ 01 Apr 2025 - National Insurance devolution call 01 Apr 2025 - The case for a new Public Health Act 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary set to create two new town councils 01 Apr 2025 - Phil Triggs: Ministers need to give LGPS funds incentives to merge 01 Apr 2025 - Is this to be the end of council tax capping? 01 Apr 2025 - Simpler Recycling: Recyclables to be collected in one bin 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in lone asylum-seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - Top Gear star’s plan to fix Britain’s pothole pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Energy-from-waste schemes included in emissions trading scheme 01 Apr 2025 - WorkWel Trial 01 Apr 2025 - Dementia to cost economy £90bn by 2040 as population ages 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Council funding is a numbers game in which everybody is losing’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘The car is not the enemy’ – Top Gear star’s two point plan to fix Britain’s pothole pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding is a numbers game in which everybody is losing 01 Apr 2025 - Dementia to cost economy £90bn by 2040 as population ages 01 Apr 2025 - What is WorkWell? New trial explained after Sunak’s disability benefits news 01 Apr 2025 - Councils frustrated by Whitehall siloes, says chief 01 Apr 2025 - Local funding reform key to growth agenda, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary transfers services to town council in ‘historic’ deal 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Bleak’ future for social housing without investment 01 Apr 2025 - Significant Tory losses in Essex 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £45m on planning appeal advice 01 Apr 2025 - Angry LGA leaders write to Gove over Oflog league table story 01 Apr 2025 - Worst-performing councils in England revealed — where does yours rank? 01 Apr 2025 - Re-elected Burnham calls for Right to Buy suspension powers 01 Apr 2025 - Council debt up by £52bn since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Election timetable means councils face race against time 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections - worst election defeat for Conservatives in years 01 Apr 2025 - School leaders warn of ‘full-blown’ special needs crisis in England 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector productivity falls 01 Apr 2025 - Car parking charges 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn statement ‘might not be held before general election’ 01 Apr 2025 - Adult maths scheme scaled back 01 Apr 2025 - Council forced to close school meal service 01 Apr 2025 - Angry LGA leaders write to Gove over Oflog league table story 01 Apr 2025 - Warning of more council bankruptcies as debt doubles 01 Apr 2025 - Municipal Missions Manifesto: radically rethinking the purpose of local government 01 Apr 2025 - Spending review urgently needed 01 Apr 2025 - Councils scale back housebuilding plans 01 Apr 2025 - Poll of councillors on funding pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Council debt up by £52bn since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Voting under way as polls open for local elections 01 Apr 2025 - Care sector issues warning as visa application numbers collapse 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly forced to wait over six months for home adaptations 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers propose disability benefits overhaul amid ‘spiralling’ costs 01 Apr 2025 - High turnover of directors of children’s social care latest figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution: Areas hoping to finalise deals before a general election 01 Apr 2025 - 634% homelessness surge from people leaving asylum hotels 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog data used to compare council performance 01 Apr 2025 - Wages below 2008 levels in two thirds of council areas 01 Apr 2025 - Guildford to sell £50m of assets 01 Apr 2025 - PM does not rule out July election 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of potholes to economy 01 Apr 2025 - Teenagers in care placed in hotels 01 Apr 2025 - 10,000 council staff on long-term sick leave 01 Apr 2025 - New ADASS president calls for community focus 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak's defence spending could hit council budgets, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Years-old study into Carer’s Allowance to be published 01 Apr 2025 - One-word Ofsted judgements to be retained 01 Apr 2025 - Early years roll-out will get ‘significantly more challenging’ 01 Apr 2025 - New president promises ‘a more assertive’ Adass 01 Apr 2025 - LGA lobbied over income tax devolution amid White Paper preparations 01 Apr 2025 - Blow to council hopes for cash boost 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh call for Right to Buy restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Gove open to giving mayors Whitehall voice 01 Apr 2025 - Minister: KPIs ‘not appropriate’ for Oflog 01 Apr 2025 - Half of the public concerned over deteriorating services 01 Apr 2025 - Politicians `must be put on the spot´ on social care during election campaign 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Both front benches’ see need to dismantle funding formula and ‘start from scratch’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s use of exceptional financial support “at best careless and maybe reckless” 01 Apr 2025 - Politicians `must be put on the spot´ on social care during election campaign 01 Apr 2025 - Breakdowns due to potholes increase 01 Apr 2025 - Transforming care and support in Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to fund council pay claim 01 Apr 2025 - Time is running out to defuse £2.4bn shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Right to Buy’ housing policy is being ‘abused’ and requires urgent reform 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC will not make ‘league table’ out of productivity plans 01 Apr 2025 - Intervention: Who are the commissioners? 01 Apr 2025 - Commissioner model lacks ‘political buy-in’ and ‘long term thinking’ 01 Apr 2025 - Productivity plans criticised as ‘diversion tactic’ ahead of election 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax arrears 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit with new productivity demands 01 Apr 2025 - Retail sales show zero growth 01 Apr 2025 - Half a million unpaid carers in UK not claiming £4,200 a year benefit 01 Apr 2025 - A grieving mother has described the intimidating moment bailiffs turned up at her door after she fell behind on her council tax bill. 01 Apr 2025 - 'Social inequalities' pushing disproportionate number of children into care in north of England 01 Apr 2025 - Defra withholds £6m of air quality funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils refer 600,000 people to bailiffs 01 Apr 2025 - Government updates MRP guidance 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh concerns raised over Oflog remit 01 Apr 2025 - Tighter MRP requirements ‘put the prudential framework on a more robust basis’ 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol walks tightrope of Safety Valve programme to avoid bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Former BoE chief economist makes case for urban wealth funds to alleviate council crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hold back cash plans on fixing potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Schools face losing over £1bn, think tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Seven areas selected for £45m child protection trial 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows slightly 01 Apr 2025 - What motoring experts would do to solve Britain’s pothole problem 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare in England failing and falling behind much of world, charity says 01 Apr 2025 - Over 700 vulnerable children placed in illegal homes 01 Apr 2025 - Government ignores sugar levy calls 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to launch 'foundation programme' for new chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £300m funding gap to help young homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Sickness benefits claims rise by a third in Tory heartlands 01 Apr 2025 - English schools could lose £1bn by 2030 as pupil numbers fall 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up: looking outward for inspiration 01 Apr 2025 - Phil Swann: Local government funding reform failure goes back to Victorians 01 Apr 2025 - Staff at county set to vote on strikes 01 Apr 2025 - Council parking income set to top £2bn 01 Apr 2025 - Councils publish pothole battle plans 01 Apr 2025 - Homes England urged to strengthen relations with local government 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems pledge to scrap business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Campaigners publish council ‘rich list’ 01 Apr 2025 - Children living near Sure Start centres did better at GCSEs, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Heseltine interview: 1974 reform was ‘not the whole step’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: 1974 reform heralded a near permanent revolution 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector facing “frankly impossible” SEND crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Brum consults on £2.3m library cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire plans to build 15 new children's homes 01 Apr 2025 - Union criticises Government’s ‘shameful’ SEND support 01 Apr 2025 - Think-tank's call for landfill tax devolution 01 Apr 2025 - County appoints chief from unitary 01 Apr 2025 - Association in tax havens crackdown 01 Apr 2025 - Grant Thornton fined over pension audit 01 Apr 2025 - Government shelves rollout of council powers 01 Apr 2025 - 'Simply not enough money in sector,' says outgoing leader 01 Apr 2025 - Parking costs are set to soar 01 Apr 2025 - Think-tank: Give NHS England budget to local government 01 Apr 2025 - 'Simply not enough money in sector,' says outgoing leader 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog co-design promises have been broken, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Public inquiry into Thurrock’s financial failure rejected 01 Apr 2025 - Council payouts for pothole punctures down 13% 01 Apr 2025 - PM defends pace of reform to deal with schools grant deficits 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak denies ‘crisis’ in local government 01 Apr 2025 - Spending on SEND school transport doubles to £1.4bn 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog chair steps down due to ‘unexpected health reasons’ 01 Apr 2025 - Concern over bridge safety 01 Apr 2025 - Debt relief orders fee axed 01 Apr 2025 - 16 million miles of bus routes lost 01 Apr 2025 - Parishes and towns raise council tax surcharge 01 Apr 2025 - Minimum wage rise 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax to double for 80 per cent of second homes 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers stand firm on tax bands 01 Apr 2025 - Councils get £295m boost for food waste collections 01 Apr 2025 - High rural house prices push more people into renting 01 Apr 2025 - English councils ration access to special needs tests 01 Apr 2025 - Financial distress in local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Care satisfaction hits all-time low 01 Apr 2025 - Complex funding stymies net-zero push 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehouse named new West Sussex chief 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for benefits ‘uprating guarantee’ 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol SEND services get £54m bailout 01 Apr 2025 - EV charge point rollout gets £185m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Reflections on the West Midlands trailblazer devo deal one year on 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Hope’ for council tax overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Care integration in ‘retreat’ 01 Apr 2025 - Housing for USAC may run out this month 01 Apr 2025 - Absolute poverty in UK rises 01 Apr 2025 - Regional disparities in council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Households set to be hit by 5% average council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - UK rent prices up 9% in record yearly rise, says ONS 01 Apr 2025 - Our school has been crumbling for 20 years 01 Apr 2025 - DWP benefits 'too low' to cover basic living costs, government warned 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England says 'not yet' time to cut interest rates 01 Apr 2025 - Northeast to pay £400 more council tax than London — see how your area compares 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor hints at October general election 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation falls to 3.4% 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could be stopped from making profits out of traffic fines 01 Apr 2025 - Record £16bn local roads repair backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform plans have once again gone awry, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Spiralling cost of children’s homes 01 Apr 2025 - Not Enough Homes to go Around 01 Apr 2025 - Social Care Spending Accounts for Two-Thirds of Spend 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes: Roads in England and Wales at 'breaking point' 01 Apr 2025 - Vital services or financial ruin? England's town hall dilemma 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak pledges to create 20,000 more apprenticeships 01 Apr 2025 - Ed Davey: ‘We need a cross-party agreement on social care’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Desperate neglect’: teachers washing clothes and finding beds as poverty grips England’s schools 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak wastes over £33million of taxpayers' cash by chickening out of May election 01 Apr 2025 - Landfill tax changes key to tackling organised crime and saving £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up plagued by ‘astonishing delays’ 01 Apr 2025 - Structures should be 'rationalised,' Hoare tells DCN 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care receives £20m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Four-day week council decision 'disappointing and arrogant' 01 Apr 2025 - No pay offer until after local elections 01 Apr 2025 - National Transfer Scheme Judgment day 01 Apr 2025 - Councils lobby for reduced audit fees amid backstop plan 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes: Wet weather brings more misery on country’s crumbling roads 01 Apr 2025 - 2 May general election ruled out 01 Apr 2025 - Social care in meltdown as shock report warns crippled system is busier than ever 01 Apr 2025 - Please, can we make this the last circus budget? 01 Apr 2025 - Wilko and other closures leave 5,000 fewer stores 01 Apr 2025 - Only government can solve social care crisis, say council leaders 01 Apr 2025 - A quick fix – but is there any choice? 01 Apr 2025 - Who can solve the council tax conundrum? 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh council tax rises finalised 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog should consolidate financial results monthly, say accountants 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care demand reaches unprecedented high 01 Apr 2025 - Private care home closures 01 Apr 2025 - UK growth picks up 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak warned off May election 01 Apr 2025 - Deprivation of Liberty backlog 'may never be eradicated' 01 Apr 2025 - Experts in fresh push for fiscal devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax alert with increases as high as £178 set to hit Britons in just weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Limited exemptions for empty homes powers 01 Apr 2025 - Council spending on diversity doubles to £23m 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy lobbying fails as Treasury ends temporary boost 01 Apr 2025 - Budget did little to diffuse ticking timebomb for local councils 01 Apr 2025 - Schools are at risk of closure after a massive fall in the birth rate 01 Apr 2025 - Labour will not bail out bankrupt councils 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: ‘Real decisions kicked into the long grass’ 01 Apr 2025 - Minister gives update on three councils under intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Households worse off despite tax cuts – think tank 01 Apr 2025 - Inside the towns where councils have issued section 114 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: County councils given more funding powers 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Chancellor ramps up pressure on LGPS to increase UK investment 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: £165m for children’s social care as part of productivity drive 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: New devo deals, expanded long-term plan for towns and levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: ‘Disappointment’ over Treasury’s productivity drive 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Household Support Fund extended 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Trailblazer devo deal for North East 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Boost for preventative services 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Chancellor launches productivity push 01 Apr 2025 - Invest in public services instead of cutting taxes, government told 01 Apr 2025 - Stand or deliver: Hunt to set out Budget choices 01 Apr 2025 - Council urged to reduce spend on diversity schemes 01 Apr 2025 - So-called exceptional financial support is no such thing 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Government’s lack of coordination has unintended consequences 01 Apr 2025 - Exceptional financial support interest premium branded ‘payday loan’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face ‘difficult decisions’ after leisure service funding delay 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA pleads for Oflog costs to be kept down 01 Apr 2025 - Lending rates could spike after audit reset, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warning on council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset ‘rummaging through the attic’ for assets to sell 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s costs drive exceptional financial support requests 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury reveals £165m for children’s social care in productivity drive 01 Apr 2025 - Out of office – has the council workplace changed for ‘good’? 01 Apr 2025 - A ‘united local government’ calls for Spring Budget funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Less than 20% of levelling up projects completed 01 Apr 2025 - More areas get level four devolution powers 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner to go ‘further and faster’ on devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Two million set for ‘stealth tax’ rise in next year without Budget help 01 Apr 2025 - Budget £2bn black hole warning 01 Apr 2025 - Cash for plastic scheme delay ‘disappointing’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tax and spending cuts will backfire, economists warn Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor targets second-home owners 01 Apr 2025 - Care firms accused of squeezing cash from councils 01 Apr 2025 - Budget children’s social care measures 01 Apr 2025 - Public want public service investment over tax cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Garden waste collection charges 01 Apr 2025 - LGA and councils call for Household Support Fund extension 01 Apr 2025 - £220m boost for homelessness services 01 Apr 2025 - Charities fear ‘doom spiral’ of council budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Former children’s minister: ‘Councils role in Send should be redefined’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face new era of austerity 01 Apr 2025 - National living wage increase will wipe out new funds 01 Apr 2025 - LGA 'strengthens' peer challenge but still won't name and shame resistant councils 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of northern councils face ‘financial failure’ within five years 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham leader: ‘Local government is in a broken state’ 01 Apr 2025 - Bradford issued best value notice with exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - Nineteen councils allowed to sell assets to pay for services 01 Apr 2025 - Half of English councils ‘face bankruptcy within next parliament’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils forced into service cuts and worrying use of reserves, finds LGA survey 01 Apr 2025 - How adopting Wiltshire’s financial approach could transform the wider sector: Richard Clewer interview 01 Apr 2025 - Unions submit pay claim for 2024-25 01 Apr 2025 - Senior council officer pay 01 Apr 2025 - Community services at risk of severe cutbacks 01 Apr 2025 - Additional council financial flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in the North most at risk amid warnings that 127 could fail financially in next five years 01 Apr 2025 - School absence fines for parents to rise by £20 in England 01 Apr 2025 - Audit Commission fears continue to haunt Oflog 01 Apr 2025 - Martin Reeves: Learning the lessons from Oflog’s first early warning pilot 01 Apr 2025 - Budget tax cuts warning 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt plans national insurance cut and vape tax for budget 01 Apr 2025 - MPs urged to protect domestic abuse services 01 Apr 2025 - Mark Sandford: How other countries fixed local government funding 01 Apr 2025 - Confusion remains over what Oflog is for 01 Apr 2025 - MPs told of concerns over Oflog independence 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for ‘autonomy’ under EPR 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s needs not prioritised, service leaders warn 01 Apr 2025 - Axing fund would be 'disastrous,' Hunt warned 01 Apr 2025 - Concern as more councils in England and Wales plan to turn off street lights 01 Apr 2025 - Midlands and northern England to get 'reallocated' HS2 funds 01 Apr 2025 - Public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts to school budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Government warned against tax cuts given ‘implausible’ department spending outlook 01 Apr 2025 - Councils offered second chance to claim housing cash 01 Apr 2025 - South Cambs to continue four-day week without consultation 01 Apr 2025 - DfE issues notice over county’s ‘systemic failings’ in Send 01 Apr 2025 - Heseltine and Clark hit out over LEPs 01 Apr 2025 - Over £500m of housing funding removed from councils 01 Apr 2025 - UK’s biggest council tax hikes as nearly all authorities plan maximum rise 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak doesn't accept the council tax system is broken 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham: £1.2bn ‘support’ and 10% tax rises to balance budget 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog predicts up to six early warning council reports next year 01 Apr 2025 - More levelling up funding committed 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner: We will treat councils with respect 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham executive refuses to back budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for Right to Buy reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Gove: Short-term lets to require planning permission 01 Apr 2025 - REVEALED: Productivity plan demands toothless 01 Apr 2025 - County and districts fight over housing support axe 01 Apr 2025 - It’s time to take stock of social care charging reform 01 Apr 2025 - County starts inquiry into ‘regrettable’ £500,000 influencer payments 01 Apr 2025 - Food waste plans ‘unrealistic’, warn districts 01 Apr 2025 - 2p income tax cut shelved 01 Apr 2025 - Suicide prevention fund 01 Apr 2025 - The authorities planning to freeze council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Gove sets out priorities for Oflog 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs submit pay claim for 2024-25 01 Apr 2025 - The authorities not making the maximum council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs responsibilities were heaped on councils as funding shrank 01 Apr 2025 - Cheshire East seeks £18m capitalisation direction 01 Apr 2025 - Mapley to take over from Whiteman at CIPFA 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog data explorer to cover all main sector services by mid-2025 01 Apr 2025 - Government timetable could push councils to issue section 114s, treasurers warn 01 Apr 2025 - Call to double maternity pay - as quarter of new mums say they have skipped meals 01 Apr 2025 - No sign of river clean-up fund after 15 months 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy fell into recession after people cut spending 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation steady as crackers and cake drive monthly food price fall 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset asks for more help following council tax snub 01 Apr 2025 - The 20 cities and towns that could be subject to ‘brownfield presumption’ 01 Apr 2025 - Disastrous Truss budget forced UK councils to take out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates 01 Apr 2025 - Pavement parking ban should be extended across England, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Michael Gove: It’s time for Britons to come first for housing 01 Apr 2025 - Raac: More than 100 school buildings will be rebuilt or refurbished 01 Apr 2025 - Public accounts deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Frailty in older people rose sharply during austerity years, study reveals 01 Apr 2025 - SEND Support 01 Apr 2025 - MPs unite in uproar over ‘inequity’ in local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - MP’s ‘absolute horror’ over Somerset’s bid for council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Productivity plans labelled ‘a redundant exercise’ 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Government clarity over waste allocations 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Hunt to lift benefit subsidy cap 01 Apr 2025 - Audit 'backstops' could become permanent 01 Apr 2025 - Academy trusts in deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Disabled Facilities Grant dropped 01 Apr 2025 - Four-day week ‘financial levers’ plan met with mass opposition 01 Apr 2025 - Council sued after cyclist hits pothole 01 Apr 2025 - Medway requests emergency loan 01 Apr 2025 - Councils push back budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Four out of five council tax referendum requests confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - New unitary to launch voluntary redundancy plan amid £100m funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Sector should adopt national branding campaign to boost workforce 01 Apr 2025 - Charities warn of impact of council financial pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Pension age should rise 01 Apr 2025 - Families risk falling into poverty without funding extension, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole capital of Britain revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Labour plans ‘limited reforms’ of social care 01 Apr 2025 - The Tories starved councils, thinking no one cared. Now they’re bust – and we care very much 01 Apr 2025 - Momentum builds to save ‘vital’ cost of living fund 01 Apr 2025 - Culture spend down by £500m 01 Apr 2025 - Council officer hands police file on £1m pay-outs 01 Apr 2025 - Early years recruitment drive 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax collection: government response to the Select Committee report published 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for reform of ‘broken’ council funding model 01 Apr 2025 - Steep rise in council tax for Yeovil and Taunton to save services 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt: Less scope for tax cuts in Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Roads funding 01 Apr 2025 - Council financial crisis 'out of control', MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Back off Gove!’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Wrong time’ for capital changes, expert says 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock set to lose money on solar investment after sale 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers plan to push English councils to sell assets 01 Apr 2025 - How a decade of austerity has squeezed council budgets in England 01 Apr 2025 - High earners could be banned from renting council houses 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC claims four-day week council saw spike in agency staff 01 Apr 2025 - MPs ‘disturbed’ by state of local audit 01 Apr 2025 - Divided education system ‘unsustainable’, think tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Isle of Wight debt accounts for 42% of annual budget 01 Apr 2025 - Council to consider levelling up fund judicial review 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC: Productivity plans ‘haven’t been designed yet’ 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Households in England face above-inflation £2bn council tax raid 01 Apr 2025 - No promise of extra funding from Rayner 01 Apr 2025 - Local audit crisis contributes to gaps in WGA and hurts transparency 01 Apr 2025 - Call for council tax overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham requests £65m capitalisation directions 01 Apr 2025 - Lower borrowing gives government ‘wiggle room’ for tax cuts 01 Apr 2025 - New interim chief for county 01 Apr 2025 - Productivity plan demand shows ‘mistrust between Westminster and the localities’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils raise alarm over free childcare offer 01 Apr 2025 - Funding announcement timing angers MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Devon and Torbay devolution deal announced 01 Apr 2025 - Clampdown threat to diversity programmes 01 Apr 2025 - Four day week clampdown a 'slippery slope' 01 Apr 2025 - Challenges remain following funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - PM appoints Towns Tsar 01 Apr 2025 - Government expected to announce £500m social care boost 01 Apr 2025 - Second home premium set to raise over £100m 01 Apr 2025 - Bailiff referrals rise by 20% over council debts 01 Apr 2025 - Saving Birmingham's landmarks 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in urgent need of repair 01 Apr 2025 - More than 40 Tory MPs call for extra council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Oxfordshire CC budget proposals ‘£900,000 short’ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove defends local government settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary to apply for exceptional financial support 01 Apr 2025 - MP calls for flexibility over s106 pots to help delayed levelling up projects 01 Apr 2025 - Local government’s reputation is at stake in 2024 01 Apr 2025 - New Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman appointed 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: settlement leaves councils more exposed to cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax funnelled into gold-plated pensions as services crumble 01 Apr 2025 - Councils apply for ‘exceptional financial support’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt signals tax-cutting budget 01 Apr 2025 - Council deficits 01 Apr 2025 - IMPOWER recruits former LGA chief 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cuts ‘serve spreadsheets not communities’ 01 Apr 2025 - First North Yorkshire mayoral election to cost £2m 01 Apr 2025 - MPs at odds with public on packaging measures 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation rises to 4% in surprise increase 01 Apr 2025 - Short-term social care funding `not having desired effect´, report suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in crisis: Town Hall debt levels staggering, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole breakdowns reach five-year high 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall Council debating call for greater protection from abuse 01 Apr 2025 - UK council could go bust due to £60m hole in special needs spending 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole reports hit a five-year high in 2023 01 Apr 2025 - Four in 10 councils at risk of Section 114 notice over next five years 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall reserves advice could ‘undermine’ role of S151 officer 01 Apr 2025 - UK council could go bust due to £60m hole in special needs spending 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Selling the family silver is not sustainable budgeting 01 Apr 2025 - Criticism of ‘ill-timed’ government proposals for capitalisation flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - Backstop expected to lead to ‘hundreds’ of qualified or disclaimed accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Middlesbrough set to ask for Government support in bid to avoid s114 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock avoids 10% council tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - North Northants leader warns of ‘robust action’ to stem budget crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Councils lobby for extra support ahead of final finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - UK economic growth rebounds in November 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham 21% council tax increase over two years request 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Illiberal’ bill banning boycotts of Israel passes Commons 01 Apr 2025 - Call to end £250m business rate loophole 01 Apr 2025 - Simon Kaye: Proper devolution would make Whitehall more efficient [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England may cut interest rate sooner after surprise inflation forecast 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in England call for more powers to deal with empty homes 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham ordered to publish finance report 01 Apr 2025 - More 114s ‘within weeks’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local government minister suggests struggling districts look to reorganise 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over digital switchover costs 01 Apr 2025 - DWP fails to commit to continuing Household Support Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole claims up record 40%, insurer reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Minister in reserves row 01 Apr 2025 - Lord Morse: I do not blame all council failure on 'bad management' 01 Apr 2025 - Shoppers and retailers set for 'challenging' 2024 01 Apr 2025 - New unitary looks at ‘unprecedented’ 10% council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Suffolk council potentially facing ‘hundreds of job losses’ 01 Apr 2025 - Two thirds of Housing Infrastructure Fund left unspent 01 Apr 2025 - Government to fund school ‘attendance mentors’ in worst-hit areas of England 01 Apr 2025 - National insurance cut from 12% to 10% 01 Apr 2025 - Covid inquiry report to be published before summer 01 Apr 2025 - PM pledges to cut taxes by curbing welfare spending 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare plan funding ‘in chaos’ 01 Apr 2025 - Disability benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Digital Telephone Migration 01 Apr 2025 - Bridget Smith: ‘Some things the government has asked for are bizarre’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped Derbyshire council to move from historic HQ 01 Apr 2025 - Rural homelessness up 40% 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham commissioners would 'undermine senior officers' 01 Apr 2025 - LGA announces new chief 01 Apr 2025 - Statistics watchdog to examine government asylum backlog claims 01 Apr 2025 - Charity launches support scheme for at-risk libraries in wake of budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Councils banned from charging for small-scale DIY waste disposal 01 Apr 2025 - 'A lot to be done' to improve councils' governance 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare hours 01 Apr 2025 - Bus service miles driven falls by a quarter

2023

01 Apr 2025 - Press release: Library expenditure in Great Britain rises 3% 01 Apr 2025 - Dismay as HS2 funds rerouted to fix potholes in London 01 Apr 2025 - Councils consider seeking pension contribution rate cuts 01 Apr 2025 - British politics is rotting from the bottom up: pity our crisis-hit local councils 01 Apr 2025 - Curb-side recycling plans for electricals 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Bad management’ not inflation to blame for councils going bankrupt 01 Apr 2025 - Help for first time buyers 01 Apr 2025 - Rents to rise in 2024, forecasts suggest 01 Apr 2025 - England has ‘twice as many empty homes as families stuck in B&Bs’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Growth zones’ for West Midlands in UK first 01 Apr 2025 - Children's homes backed by private equity on the rise 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers row back on salary threshold for family visa 01 Apr 2025 - Court provides clarity on duties owed to children at home 01 Apr 2025 - New nutrient neutrality laws shelved 01 Apr 2025 - Five unitaries moot devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Bradford Council funding call 01 Apr 2025 - Council looks at minimum service level to balance budget 01 Apr 2025 - Care bosses ‘blindsided’ by foreign dependents ban 01 Apr 2025 - The critical role of the Section 151 Officer 01 Apr 2025 - Two districts issued with best value notices over debt fears 01 Apr 2025 - Kate Ogden, David Phillips: After the finance settlement, the worst is yet to come 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation drops to 3.9% 01 Apr 2025 - 'Difficult decisions' as council tax rise expected 01 Apr 2025 - Retail chief warns parking fees killing high street amid quiet Boxing Day 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls fork out £1.7million to 23,000 motorists whose vehicles were damaged by potholes last year 01 Apr 2025 - Profiteering fears as global investment firms increase stakes in England’s child social care 01 Apr 2025 - Finance settlement ‘much less redistributive’ 01 Apr 2025 - Finance settlement: Council tax accounts for more than half of core spending power rise 01 Apr 2025 - Finance settlement ‘bitterly disappointing’ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove threatens to strip councils of planning powers 01 Apr 2025 - Local government settlement: ‘crisis-cash-repeat’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local government ‘needs funded pay deal’ 01 Apr 2025 - Call for MPs' help over ‘inadequate’ settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Gove announces finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman: Finance settlement to leave councils with ‘tough budget round’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGC council tax tracker: vast majority plan maximum increase 01 Apr 2025 - Council 'value for money' league tables 01 Apr 2025 - Your council may well go bust next year if it can’t escape the grip of the ‘frightful four’ 01 Apr 2025 - Outlawing DIY waste ‘tip taxes’ will cost £2m a year, council complains 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham to hike taxes by 10pc, finance chief reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Provisional Finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Council warns of S114 risk over HS2 costs 01 Apr 2025 - Eight councils to trial new kinship care allowance 01 Apr 2025 - Bradford on verge of section 114 in ‘financial emergency’ 01 Apr 2025 - Leicestershire’s toughest ever budget 01 Apr 2025 - FRC seeks greater audit competition as report highlights extent of Big Four dominance 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire asks ‘what is a legal minimum service level?’ and considers all options in face of s114 threat 01 Apr 2025 - Many local authorities ‘only two or three’ wrong decisions away from serious risk of failure 01 Apr 2025 - More councils in s114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates expected to be frozen 01 Apr 2025 - Extra 40,000 people in England could be homeless this Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding targets set to ease in England 01 Apr 2025 - £2.5 million bill for pupil with special needs 01 Apr 2025 - Government admits councils spending 75% of budgets on adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - ADASS joint chief executive appointed 01 Apr 2025 - Tories told to 'grasp nettle' and pay social care workers decent wage 01 Apr 2025 - IFRS 16 Leases: A Guide For Local Authority Practitioners 2023 Edition 01 Apr 2025 - FRC: backlog ‘severely restricted’ local audit inspection 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy falls unexpectedly in October as higher rates bite 01 Apr 2025 - New deputy CEO and executive director joins Gloucestershire County Council 01 Apr 2025 - The levelling up act: what local government needs to know 01 Apr 2025 - Council seeks to recover £1.2m for failed Levelling Up bids 01 Apr 2025 - London’s councils half a billion in the red 01 Apr 2025 - Using data to make better decisions for our children 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts hit ‘pupils in poor areas harder’ 01 Apr 2025 - More than a million living in pockets of hidden poverty in England, says study 01 Apr 2025 - ADCS president: ‘Tensions with colleagues over rising costs’ 01 Apr 2025 - Fears government has ‘traded’ one cost of living fund for another 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors recommend 300% empty properties’ council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Wales passes workplace recycling law 01 Apr 2025 - Child cruelty and neglect cases more than double in five years, police data obtained by the NSPCC shows 01 Apr 2025 - Fears Council's spending cuts will hit most vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - Gove concedes difficulties 01 Apr 2025 - Low reserves edge borough to S114 declaration 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA: what Section 114 can teach us 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham looks to £2.4bn property portfolio to bridge £300m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Gove: Nottingham’s s114 was the fault of poor governance not central government 01 Apr 2025 - Finance policy statement: ‘difficult to see how it will help authorities balance their budgets’ 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon disposes of over £72m of assets to combat debt 01 Apr 2025 - Low reserves edge borough to S114 declaration 01 Apr 2025 - LGA poised to shift position on Right to Buy 01 Apr 2025 - Government to ‘consider’ representations on council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Government to ‘increase transparency’ over children’s homes costs 01 Apr 2025 - Finance policy statement: Core spending power to rise 6% to £64bn 01 Apr 2025 - Fifth of councils facing S114, chiefs reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Autistic adults without care entitlement face 'breakdown' 01 Apr 2025 - Bath doubles council tax on second homes 01 Apr 2025 - Care sector fears migration changes are a step back 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils will see no extra funding from Labour, Gove claims 01 Apr 2025 - Section 114 notices 01 Apr 2025 - NCASC: Everything you need to know 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk leader: Rejecting devo deal would leave county ‘in the wilderness’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care pilots make workforce ‘vulnerable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare pledge ‘doomed to fail’ 01 Apr 2025 - Right-to-buy receipts and a catch that’s holding up new homes 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens more councils could issue Section 114 notice within weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Government axes Brum's £2.7bn PFI deal in shock 'betrayal' 01 Apr 2025 - 'Lack of clarity' puts recycling reforms at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Government criticised over school capital funding 01 Apr 2025 - LUHC Committee demands answers from Michael Gove on local authorities’ financial health 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Public spending plans are unsustainable 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham section 114 shows ‘funding model is broken’ 01 Apr 2025 - London borough applies for capitalisation direction 01 Apr 2025 - Pressure for LGA peer review to be strengthened 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham city council sixth to ‘declare bankruptcy’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA lays bare ‘astronomical’ care costs 01 Apr 2025 - Adass president: Social care ‘too fragmented’ to be seen as ‘core’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on leaseholds 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham issue S114 01 Apr 2025 - £400m to expand free childcare scheme in England 01 Apr 2025 - Yorkshire councils' government funding cut by £945m 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s social care placements costs increase 01 Apr 2025 - Councils welcome PWLB rate extension 01 Apr 2025 - MPs warn services on ‘knife edge’ 01 Apr 2025 - McMahon returns to Labour frontbench 01 Apr 2025 - The King's Fund: Health and care lack shared understanding on delayed discharges 01 Apr 2025 - MPs press Government to resolve audit crisis 01 Apr 2025 - MPs demand answers on Oflog independence 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk may delay devo deal by one year 01 Apr 2025 - Andy Smith: Next government needs to reset Send system 01 Apr 2025 - Average rent in Great Britain up by more than a quarter since start of Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Bus services cut by more than 80 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Leaseholder reform bill to pass before next election 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole breakdowns hit record levels 01 Apr 2025 - Hunts New Wave of Austerity: Public service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding fears - LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation reveals overwhelming opposition to LGPS private equity target 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Councils remain ‘chronically underfunded’ 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Lancashire devolution ‘amazing news for county’ 01 Apr 2025 - First ‘vanilla’ county deal in the works 01 Apr 2025 - Household support fund’s end ‘leaves a major hole’ 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement ‘fails to protect services people rely on’ 01 Apr 2025 - Welfare cap breach 01 Apr 2025 - Plan to turn care home block into rooms for homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Which public services will suffer most to pay for tax cuts? 01 Apr 2025 - Council officers: Autumn Statement ‘not helpful’ as ‘threat of severe difficulties’ remains 01 Apr 2025 - OBR: £2.3bn of council reserves required to meet spending needs 01 Apr 2025 - Fiscal outlook based on ‘possibly implausible assumptions’ 01 Apr 2025 - Energy price cap 01 Apr 2025 - Local government settlement to be ‘above inflation’ 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: ignoring local government would be wrong ahead of election 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Hunt announces surprise LGPS plan 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Unprotected departments face further cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Business rates measures to be fully funded 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Living Wage hike places council budgets under pressure 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Housing benefits unfrozen 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Councils to be able to recover planning costs 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Level 4 devolution unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Hunt devolves but councils face new costs 01 Apr 2025 - Gove: Send services need ‘reform’ 01 Apr 2025 - Four-day week trial to continue despite ‘time-consuming’ reporting 01 Apr 2025 - Minister backtracks on council tax ‘review’ 01 Apr 2025 - Mixed economic news for chancellor ahead of autumn statement 01 Apr 2025 - Britain faces 'highest tax raising parliament in history', CCN told 01 Apr 2025 - Gove hints at autumn statement gifts 01 Apr 2025 - Pressure grows on Hunt to cut income tax 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Don’t expect much long-term thinking 01 Apr 2025 - Roger Gough: We need to debate means testing home-to-school transport 01 Apr 2025 - Third investment zone announced 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘pushed to the brink’ by children’s social care pressures 01 Apr 2025 - SCT Council hit by improvement notices 01 Apr 2025 - MPs slam ‘beyond unacceptable’ condition of schools 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set out Autumn Statement priorities 01 Apr 2025 - 3rd round of Levelling Up Fund allocated 01 Apr 2025 - Government leasehold reforms could increase property prices by 10 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Government considers cuts to National Insurance in Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Homes close to new pylons to get £1,000 off bills 01 Apr 2025 - Roads unsafe for cyclists, warns Lancashire rider's widow 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs transport costs 01 Apr 2025 - North Northamptonshire Council wants long-term money from government 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Nursery places shortage 01 Apr 2025 - New cabinet urged to focus on council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up projects face delay 01 Apr 2025 - £8bn of HS2 savings to be spent on ending pothole ‘blight’ 01 Apr 2025 - Derbyshire denies facing ‘bankruptcy situation’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unaccompanied asylum seekers numbers rise 29% in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes fees risk poor care 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for adult social care funding in Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Highways maintenance funding allocations published 01 Apr 2025 - Broken markets and missing money: parliamentary committee hears s151 officers’ concerns 01 Apr 2025 - 35% of authorities have now finalised 21/22 accounts but ‘still long way to go’ to fix backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Warning not to ‘cry wolf’ about council finances 01 Apr 2025 - PM says cash-strapped council is ‘no longer fit for purpose’ 01 Apr 2025 - Patrick Melia: Autumn Statement must address children’s social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Social care staff doing NHS work ‘unfunded’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care leaders forced to find millions in extra savings 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog pushes ahead with early warning system 01 Apr 2025 - Financial director job ‘not as desirable as it once was’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘hinting’ at new devo level in Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 250,000 people awaiting adult social care needs assessment – report 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands at risk of poor home care because of low fees 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation falls to 4.6% 01 Apr 2025 - Wales consults on council tax reform 01 Apr 2025 - Former councillor named as new local government minister 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers urged to expand cost of living support 01 Apr 2025 - Pay rises outstrip inflation by most for two years 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet reshuffle 01 Apr 2025 - More than a million empty homes 01 Apr 2025 - New housing minister named 01 Apr 2025 - South Cambridgeshire to save £750k from four-day week trial 01 Apr 2025 - Places must adapt for ageing population, says Whitty 01 Apr 2025 - Housing minister sacked 01 Apr 2025 - Woking set to take out almost £80m extra in PWLB loans 01 Apr 2025 - PM under pressure from ministers to raise housing benefit 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak set to hit UK inflation target of 5% 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt could extend tax relief for businesses and boost planning 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for 20% uplift for Healthy Start to meet food inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Charities ‘near insolvency’ after subsidising public sector contracts 01 Apr 2025 - Welfare reductions worth billions reportedly planned by ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless tents destroyed during Met Police operation 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak reshuffling cabinet 01 Apr 2025 - Government behind on scaled-back care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Land value tax could redistribute billions 01 Apr 2025 - Whitty says UK faces rural and coastal ageing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy stagnates between July and September 01 Apr 2025 - Social care shake-up budget stripped of £1bn and hit by delays, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset declares ‘financial emergency’ 01 Apr 2025 - System for struggling councils is not fit for purpose 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Broken’ and ‘dodgy’ markets to blame for financial pressure 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham outlines ‘precarious financial’ position with £177m funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Causes of section 114 warnings now systemic, parliamentary committee told 01 Apr 2025 - Our public services are crumbling 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns over costs raised by election-focused King’s Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Clearing local audit backlog a ‘five-year task’ 01 Apr 2025 - King’s speech: £140m funding for stop smoking services 01 Apr 2025 - King’s speech: Requirement for councils to map road networks 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Nothing for local government’ in King’s Speech 01 Apr 2025 - County to hire a full-time chief after three-year job share 01 Apr 2025 - King’s speech: Gove moots votes on appointing council staff with six figure salaries 01 Apr 2025 - David Holloway: Send capital allocations are unfairly skewed towards schools 01 Apr 2025 - Plan for 40% of train services to run during strikes 01 Apr 2025 - Emergency Housing Payment Rejections Have Soared After Government Slashed Funding 01 Apr 2025 - Charlotte Alldritt: Give councils 2% of income tax to rebuild from bottom up 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor warned of ‘urgent need’ to deal with audit backlog 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC to be hit by real term budget cuts, think-tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - S114 ‘almost inevitable’ for Leicester 01 Apr 2025 - Just 1% of English councils published audited accounts by deadline 01 Apr 2025 - South Cambridgeshire best value notice ‘puts a lid on innovation’ 01 Apr 2025 - South Cambs leader hits out at government ‘overreach’ 01 Apr 2025 - New law set to phase out smoking 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt to set out spending plans 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to reverse some education reforms 01 Apr 2025 - £15bn windfall for the Treasury raises prospect of tax cuts 01 Apr 2025 - What’s in the King’s Speech? 01 Apr 2025 - Just 1% of English councils published audited accounts by deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset Council could sell investment portfolio amid section 114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Ministers can’t question local government’s competence after covid inquiry revelations 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog performance data demands criticised for ‘lack of depth’ 01 Apr 2025 - Children's services 'absolute carnage' 01 Apr 2025 - Unions agree employers pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Government write off of Croydon debt 01 Apr 2025 - DCN writes to Hunt over temporary accommodation pressures 01 Apr 2025 - £100 million to fund childcare places 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates frozen 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC issues best value notice over four-day week 01 Apr 2025 - Parish precepts increase by £52m 01 Apr 2025 - One in 10 biggest English councils risk bankruptcy over child protection bill 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates predicted to be held again 01 Apr 2025 - Woking chief resigns 01 Apr 2025 - Warning one in 10 county councils face effective bankruptcy [from SCT Survey] 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Numerous authorities’ at S114 risk due to DSG deficits 01 Apr 2025 - Lansley: ‘significant under-funding’ of public health budgets hindering progress 01 Apr 2025 - Short-termism leaves public services in ‘doom loop’ 01 Apr 2025 - Warning one in 10 county councils face effective bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Matt Prosser: ‘It’s not right children’s providers make super profits’ 01 Apr 2025 - AA seeks new pothole cash as councils face cut 01 Apr 2025 - Meals on wheels ‘heading for UK-wide collapse’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ prudential borrowing falls by almost 4% 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Nightmare before Christmas? 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up Bill to become law 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog’s permanent chief executive announced as Josh Goodman 01 Apr 2025 - Councils scale back levelling up ambitions as costs rise 01 Apr 2025 - South Cambridgeshire defiant over four-day week trial 01 Apr 2025 - The trouble with Oflog 01 Apr 2025 - Great disappointment as vital Meals on Wheels service could be facing collapse 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in England facing bankruptcy as lack of housing pushes up costs 01 Apr 2025 - Public services in ‘perpetual state of decline since 2010’ 01 Apr 2025 - Biggest private children’s homes in England made £300m profit last year 01 Apr 2025 - Carers recruited from abroad subjected to 'widespread exploitation' in the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Just one in 10 councils publish accounts voters are meant to see with dozens failing to file any audited accounts in the last four years in 'transparency crisis' 01 Apr 2025 - The UK’s ‘official’ labour data is becoming a nonsense 01 Apr 2025 - Shops can’t save UK high streets but a dose of local character could help them thrive again 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Oflog base 'focus' on Wolverhampton 01 Apr 2025 - Frustration as funding for deprived communities shifted to small towns 01 Apr 2025 - Demand responsive buses won't fill gap, CCN says 01 Apr 2025 - £42m boost for social care innovation 01 Apr 2025 - Council seeks HS2 compensation over 'levelling down' 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Home Office accused of misleading council over asylum plans 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up should be led by ‘left behind neighbourhoods’ 01 Apr 2025 - Districts warn of ‘disastrous’ service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Rural buses: Councils opt for 'on-demand' services in face of cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Firms want clarity as DfT hands out £150m for buses 01 Apr 2025 - Over £12bn of council pensions invested in fossil fuel 01 Apr 2025 - No prospect of sector spending boost after General Election 01 Apr 2025 - Jones warns of s114 impact 01 Apr 2025 - 'Victory for common sense' hailed on waste 01 Apr 2025 - Real Living Wage rise 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could be forced to cut back on waste collection and green spaces as funding shortfall reaches £550m 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling 'postcode lottery' to end under new government plans 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs split on need for improved assurance but united in Oflog discontent 01 Apr 2025 - s114 a 'last resort,' say finance experts 01 Apr 2025 - Billions in local government pensions invested in fossil fuels - analysis 01 Apr 2025 - Modern slavery helpline calls surge from care staff 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for strategy on ‘social prescribing’ in England amid youth mental health crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Top civil servant warns ‘failures’ mean devolution chances ‘suffer’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government blocks remote meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Woking commissioners warn of ‘more to come’ as pressures grow 01 Apr 2025 - Pension funds at PLSA: ‘levelling up agenda not our job’ 01 Apr 2025 - Increasingly poor road conditions 01 Apr 2025 - Warning that reductions to home care risks leaving families overwhelmed 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of financial pressures ‘like never before’ ahead of Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Shops and pubs face quadruple tax bill next year 01 Apr 2025 - Government debt will rise to 140% of GDP, think tank forecasts 01 Apr 2025 - ADEPT: Ministers have undermined confidence in new burdens doctrine 01 Apr 2025 - Rejected £90m reallocated to other councils 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Sector to plot solutions for 'broken' finance system 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘avoids scrutiny’ after levelling up bill amendments 01 Apr 2025 - Prosser: Poor behaviour leaving officers to ‘sink or swim’ 01 Apr 2025 - London boroughs could be at risk of S114 notices 01 Apr 2025 - UK infrastructure needs more investment 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for rethink over ‘failing’ support for economically inactive 01 Apr 2025 - Government must soon make visa and funding decisions for Ukrainians in UK – NAO 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Millstone of debt’: how risky investments left Camberley struggling for funds 01 Apr 2025 - Wages overtake inflation for first time in nearly two years 01 Apr 2025 - September CPI is 6.3% 01 Apr 2025 - No room for tax cuts or spending increases with recession forecast, according to the IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Food prices in first monthly fall for two years 01 Apr 2025 - WMCA trailblazer devolution deal ratified 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' readiness to adopt new accounting standards questioned 01 Apr 2025 - Labour calls for inquiry into English schools funding 01 Apr 2025 - No room for tax cuts or spending increases with recession forecast, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Pay overtakes inflation for first time since 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Local government finances 01 Apr 2025 - Mayor refunds £51m to councils 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Polling finds public open to further devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer promises council funding reform 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority pension schemes invest £330m in renewables 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham agrees job evaluation scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Civil service relocation commitment for West Midlands 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England has more ‘work to do’ to control inflation, says chief economist 01 Apr 2025 - Greg Clark says Goodbye Two-Tier 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to omit funding of social care reform from manifesto and scale back Lords plans 01 Apr 2025 - Tories tell Rishi Sunak to take on Keir Starmer over housebuilding plans 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ reserves are reducing at an ‘unsustainable’ rate 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham 'actively exploring' action against s151 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor urged to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £1.7bn on temporary accommodation 01 Apr 2025 - Increase in parking revenue for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates expected to be held after small economic growth 01 Apr 2025 - Social care workforce departures show ‘leaky bucket which needs urgent repair’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy returns to growth in August 01 Apr 2025 - White pupils have slipped further behind since Covid 01 Apr 2025 - More than two million drivers per day could be wrongly fined 01 Apr 2025 - Turning around towns will take longer than 10 years [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool to write off £25m council tax debt 01 Apr 2025 - Just five 2022-23 audits published on time, says PSAA 01 Apr 2025 - Unsafe buildings leave 'forgotten' pupils learning from home 01 Apr 2025 - RAAC school closures 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges return of Sure Start to tackle youth offending 01 Apr 2025 - Freezing income tax thresholds is ‘largest tax rise in at least 50 years’ 01 Apr 2025 - Better training tipped to help public sector workforce crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Investment, living wage and ‘ironclad’ fiscal rules – Reeves speaks to conference 01 Apr 2025 - Just five 2022-23 audits published on time, says PSAA 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: DfT drops self-assessment process 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC expresses ‘strong view’ against remote meetings 01 Apr 2025 - High-debt councils defend investment strategies 01 Apr 2025 - ‘More men and young people needed’ as social care recruitment campaign launched 01 Apr 2025 - Inquiry ordered over England schools funding mistake 01 Apr 2025 - Additional £8 billion for road repairs 01 Apr 2025 - High street facing ‘terminal decline’, union warns 01 Apr 2025 - Shadow minister promises local government would be ‘equal partner’ 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham commissioners are ‘important backstop’, says opposition leader 01 Apr 2025 - Rayner pledges greater powers for local leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Threat to councils' planning powers lifted 01 Apr 2025 - 15 minute cities 'don't exist' 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of Covid generation under-fives excluded from schools in England 01 Apr 2025 - Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves pledges overhaul of UK's 'antiquated' planning system 01 Apr 2025 - Ditch the autumn statement, Britain’s manufacturers urge Jeremy Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - Labour leaders’ plan to end power ‘hoarding’ by centre 01 Apr 2025 - Thousand pools shut since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham commissioners appointed for five years, with Chris Tambini focusing on finance 01 Apr 2025 - Coventry S114 risk ‘very real’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government appoints new commissioners at Thurrock Council 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Elected mayor in law change call 01 Apr 2025 - LGA seeks assessment over mental health withdrawal cost 01 Apr 2025 - Reform call ahead of vehicle tax widening 01 Apr 2025 - County moves towards ‘bare minimum’ services 01 Apr 2025 - County agrees to pursue ‘thin gruel’ devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - No dates for HS2 pothole cash 01 Apr 2025 - Questions raised over enforcement of smoking ban 01 Apr 2025 - Government spends more maintaining Houses of Parliament than housing 01 Apr 2025 - Press release: Rob Whiteman to retire as CIPFA CEO 01 Apr 2025 - Tory-run Hampshire council says it faces ‘financial meltdown’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rising costs faced by schools in England growing faster than inflation – IFS 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Select committee looks to launch financial distress inquiry 01 Apr 2025 - Seven in 10 councils struggling amid cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak confirms HS2 Manchester leg axed 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MP criticises ‘obsession’ with elected mayors 01 Apr 2025 - New Oxfordshire cabinet following damning SEND report 01 Apr 2025 - County leader questions districts’ ‘capacity to deliver’ levelling up projects 01 Apr 2025 - Woking launches consultation on cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt announces civil service expansion freeze, benefit reform and living wage boost 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire outlines £132m funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Nothing new for councils in Gove’s conference speech 01 Apr 2025 - Council's ‘low-risk approach’ questioned 01 Apr 2025 - Local government minister: ‘There is substantial money in the system’ 01 Apr 2025 - Food prices see first fall for two years as stores compete 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for a big increase in UK spending on preventative policies 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Scrap council tax cap and we can prove Tories cost you less’ 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC names first £20m levelling up partnerships 01 Apr 2025 - £80m bus funding confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to spend £700m on buses 01 Apr 2025 - Catholic and CofE primary schools in England ‘take fewer SEND pupils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt to confirm national living wage to rise to £11 an hour 01 Apr 2025 - Fifty-five ‘left-behind’ towns to share £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Gove pledges to halt council four-day weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Brum kicks off job cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face record £3.5bn shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Council financial pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses urged to prepare for single-use plastics ban 01 Apr 2025 - Southampton seeks expert help amid S114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - County areas behind on EV charging 01 Apr 2025 - UKIB reduces lending rates below the PWLB for infrastructure projects 01 Apr 2025 - Scrapping inheritance tax could cost £15bn a year 01 Apr 2025 - Council capital projects ‘paused indefinitely’ 01 Apr 2025 - London borough at risk of S114 this year 01 Apr 2025 - Compensation claims for flash flooding 01 Apr 2025 - Southampton seeks expert help amid S114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Unions delay next steps discussion 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman announces Cipfa departure 01 Apr 2025 - £5.5m for EV charging in West Sussex 01 Apr 2025 - Newcastle clean air zone brings in £500k 01 Apr 2025 - Fine parents for school absence in England only as last resort, MPs urge 01 Apr 2025 - Services will go in next round of cuts, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care are crucial to the economy, says Davey 01 Apr 2025 - Sick days at work hit highest level for 10 years 01 Apr 2025 - Unions ask PM for extra £4.4bn a year to fix crumbling schools in England 01 Apr 2025 - SEND legal disputes 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling plans at risk over delays 01 Apr 2025 - LGA responds to latest homelessness and rough sleeping report 01 Apr 2025 - Peers approve levelling up Bill 01 Apr 2025 - Medway Council bankruptcy ‘very likely’, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS consultation could achieve ‘precisely opposite’ of ministers’ intention 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems’ Sir Ed Davey to make £5bn-a-year pledge on care in England 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in limbo after seven-bin policy scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - New fund to regenerate high streets and smaller urban areas 01 Apr 2025 - £8bn needed to keep pace with demand for social care in England over next decade 01 Apr 2025 - Sharp rise in number of empty properties in England 01 Apr 2025 - Close empty property business rates relief loophole, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - ‘More stressful than prison’: sharp rise in the number of empty properties in England 01 Apr 2025 - Sheffield council faces mass equal pay claim over ‘scandalous’ pay grades 01 Apr 2025 - OECD downbeat on UK prospects 01 Apr 2025 - Council injects £6m into former mining village after failed funding bid 01 Apr 2025 - Government will never allow ‘seven bins’ per house says PM 01 Apr 2025 - Essex to seek non-mayoral devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - Plymouth seeking capitalisation direction to fix pension dispute 01 Apr 2025 - Brighton warned of ‘concerning and significant’ budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Medway S114 notice ‘very likely’ 01 Apr 2025 - Middlesbrough at ‘very real risk’ of S114, auditors say 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of HS2 ‘out of control’ 01 Apr 2025 - Four in five cars sold must be electric by 2030 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA issues urgent guidance to finance directors on s114 practice 01 Apr 2025 - New Birmingham Section 114 notice warning issued 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for new franchising powers to end ‘spiral of decline’ of bus services 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham City Council: Equal pay decision delay prompts more warnings 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England holds interest rates 01 Apr 2025 - The Birmingham City Council saga is a warning to government ahead of the Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - £15bn of public assets sold by English councils since 2010 amid budget shortfalls 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing rose to £11.6bn in August 01 Apr 2025 - £1.3m smart streetlamp pilot launched 01 Apr 2025 - London council calls for power to impose overnight levy 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health top reason for social care absences 01 Apr 2025 - Government fails to block levelling up Bill amendments 01 Apr 2025 - Surprise fall in inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham City Council will face commissioners’ intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Truss: the government needs to ‘take on’ the OBR 01 Apr 2025 - Tory cuts driving councils to brink as Government steps in to run stricken Birmingham 01 Apr 2025 - Gove may blame Labour, but Tory-led councils are facing similar difficulties 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of children with special educational needs out of education for years, ITV News finds 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC criticised for ‘persistent delays’ 01 Apr 2025 - Level up seaside towns or lose power, Conservatives told 01 Apr 2025 - Cash injection for Kent as councils drag feet on National Transfer Scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Care home bosses demand pay rise for staff 01 Apr 2025 - New levelling up minister appointed 01 Apr 2025 - Government defeated over planning fees 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up minister quits 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Inconsistent messaging from the centre does not go unnoticed 01 Apr 2025 - Arguments between health and social care over who pays are ‘ridiculous’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unions warn of thousands of job losses at councils 01 Apr 2025 - Maximum increases in council tax bills could be used to help plug funding gaps 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey Heath faces ‘effective bankruptcy’ due to costly investments 01 Apr 2025 - Leeds wants ‘complete revamp’ of local government funding amid five-year, £250m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Front line services ‘inevitably going to be impacted without funding’, warns Durham council 01 Apr 2025 - ‘The once scarce s114 is becoming customary and more are to come’ 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors: Kent will have ‘no other option’ but to issue s114 if finances don’t improve 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire County Council’s finances ‘close to breaking point’ 01 Apr 2025 - Simon White: A modest proposal for social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Housing pressures may push councils into effective bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - NHS and social care to receive extra funding ahead of winter 01 Apr 2025 - England's councils in debt 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens of councils face equal pay claims, says union 01 Apr 2025 - Derbyshire County Council could stop non-essential spending 01 Apr 2025 - Families struggling to find childcare 01 Apr 2025 - Dwindling reserves leave authorities exposed to higher interest rates 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Councils in doom-spiral of unsustainable spending on children’s services’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils cut back on road resurfacing 01 Apr 2025 - Reinstate ringfencing for pothole repairs, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Clearing audit backlog requires “uncomfortable trade off” 01 Apr 2025 - Voter ID capacity warning ahead of general election 01 Apr 2025 - 'Bankrupt' Birmingham's challenges 'extreme' - leader 01 Apr 2025 - Council taxpayers face £5m a week cost over planning fee hike delay, warn town halls 01 Apr 2025 - Yorkshire teed off over school funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Clearing audit backlog requires “uncomfortable trade off” 01 Apr 2025 - More English councils expected to fail owing billions, warns Moody’s 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of schools in England checked for Raac, say education chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - Only half of required number of trainee secondary teachers in England recruited 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA and ICAEW announce membership tie-up 01 Apr 2025 - Government told Woking to review its capital programme in 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Section 114s are just the tip of the iceberg 01 Apr 2025 - William Burns: Social care needs greater funding certainty 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham s114: ‘We don’t really know what a statutory service is’ 01 Apr 2025 - Funding formulas are back in the news 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £2bn on agency staff 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway 01 Apr 2025 - Education care plans ‘to be cut’ 01 Apr 2025 - Opinion: Local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - Covid vaccine booster rollout starts 01 Apr 2025 - LGA chair warns of more section 114s due to ‘broken’ system 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham: ‘Complete breakdown in communication over section 114’ 01 Apr 2025 - Street Manager limitations cost councils millions 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh equal pay claims warning 01 Apr 2025 - Four MPs join Labour’s shadow levelling up team 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC: ‘Serious concern’ as Birmingham equal pay bill hits £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham ‘exhausted’ general fund three years ago 01 Apr 2025 - Unite: Over 3,000 staff to walk out in September strikes 01 Apr 2025 - Kent ‘once again’ cannot meet UAS children duties 01 Apr 2025 - Gove to ease nutrient neutrality requirements 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Town hall resilience data to be increased 01 Apr 2025 - Unions tell councils they won’t accept final pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers look to force councils to publish overdue accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Guildford halts recruitment after S114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset in section 114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - Sexual health service pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of complaints for special needs education 01 Apr 2025 - Electric vehicles' impact on roads 01 Apr 2025 - What Angela Rayner’s appointment will mean for UK housing 01 Apr 2025 - Education secretary under fire for opening ‘Pandora’s box’ on concrete crisis 01 Apr 2025 - 13 schools with RAAC had building work scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - How the crumbling concrete crisis in schools across England unfolded 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham City Council issues section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - Nine councils in section 114 warning 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy made stronger recovery during Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Government should have informed councils sooner about school closures due to concrete safety, says Councillor 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in homeless Afghans on government’s deadline day to move out of hotels 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face tough reserve position despite overall balances 01 Apr 2025 - Schools ordered to prepare for collapse of concrete buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Care spending threatens 'Somerset Council's viability' 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham to give all staff option to resign 01 Apr 2025 - Unions tell councils they won’t accept final pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: ‘It is hard to think of a tax that doesn’t need serious reform’ 01 Apr 2025 - Employers reject fresh unions' pay bid 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Emergency situation’ as over four fifths of councils see homelessness rise 01 Apr 2025 - Seven new special free schools announced 01 Apr 2025 - Three schools closed over safety concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Unite announces autumn strikes at 23 councils 01 Apr 2025 - UK faces ‘heightened recession risks’ as interest rates bite 01 Apr 2025 - Anger at ‘cuckoo’ rates relief clampdown 01 Apr 2025 - Huge costs are stifling councils, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - Net zero bottle scheme will hit retailers with £1.8bn a year 01 Apr 2025 - LGA questions value of Oflog data collection 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £5bn deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Wet July sees rise in pothole-related breakdowns 01 Apr 2025 - Council reserves a ‘challenging political issue’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary warns of £11.5m overspend with ‘critically low’ reserves 01 Apr 2025 - London Councils eyes call to axe social care precept 01 Apr 2025 - Councils failing to crack down on anti-social behaviour, watchdog finds 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation falls to 6.8 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Kent to ‘curtail’ non-essential spending 01 Apr 2025 - Virtual school service risks becoming ‘victim of own success’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding system has 'broken down' 01 Apr 2025 - UK wages grow at record rate 01 Apr 2025 - Funding of public services in England skewed against poor areas, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Average total LGPS contribution rate falls 01 Apr 2025 - Data sharing seen as ‘burdensome’, DLUHC report finds 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Scale of Woking’s inter-authority borrowing revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria waste strike enters third month in wake of reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Mixed reviews for long-term DLUHC plan 01 Apr 2025 - Government admits social care data lacking 01 Apr 2025 - Pay dispute to stretch into autumn 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face bills of millions of pounds amid hundreds of fresh equal pay claims from women 01 Apr 2025 - Areas with low social mobility face funding ‘penalty’ 01 Apr 2025 - New homes using right to buy receipts down by a third 01 Apr 2025 - Taxpayers are paying £1million to keep rich football clubs safe 01 Apr 2025 - Bailiffs making record profits collecting debt for councils in cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers defend council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole repair funding in UK has reduced more than majority of other OECD nations – LGA analysis 01 Apr 2025 - Change planning laws to protect historic pub buildings, campaigners say 01 Apr 2025 - One in seven shops lie empty as Covid and business rates take toll 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face bills of millions of pounds amid hundreds of fresh equal pay claims from women 01 Apr 2025 - Spending power to surge in London but plunge in other regions 01 Apr 2025 - Yorkshire council warns of budget crisis as deficit reaches £47m 01 Apr 2025 - DCN hits back against call for planning to shift to upper-tier 01 Apr 2025 - All staff at Woking to be consulted on redundancy 01 Apr 2025 - Concern raised business could be ‘ignored’ when some councils take over LEP functions 01 Apr 2025 - Warning UK set for five years of lost economic growth 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living crisis not over, Treasury warns, despite signs of ‘turning point’ in wages 01 Apr 2025 - Kirklees warns of possible Section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ignore Whitehall data threat 01 Apr 2025 - Is Oflog’s social care data fair on councils? 01 Apr 2025 - Energy price cap fuelling inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Bus services halved since 2011, Labour claims 01 Apr 2025 - ULEZ scrappage scheme extended 01 Apr 2025 - LEP functions to be transferred to upper-tier councils 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC issues Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole with non-statutory Best Value Notice 01 Apr 2025 - Barnsley’s £836m debt brings ‘risks’ but is ‘manageable’ given level of reserves, says director of finance 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: council-maintained schools outperforming academies 01 Apr 2025 - Appointments could spark finance review, says CIPFA chief 01 Apr 2025 - Second home tax ‘could turn Welsh tourist hotspots into ghost towns’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council chief raises alarm over sector’s financial challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan refugees moved out of hotels now homeless 01 Apr 2025 - England’s playgrounds crumble as council budgets fall 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates could remain above 5pc until 2026, Bank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Child sexual abuse probe 'obstructed' by asylum hotel staff 01 Apr 2025 - Council-maintained schools in England outperforming academies in Ofsted ratings 01 Apr 2025 - Missed bill payments back to winter levels 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: LGA stance on corporate peer challenges starts to shift 01 Apr 2025 - Sector to step up anti-mayor lobbying 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care facing £1.5bn funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary faces £17.3m overspend putting services ‘under threat’ 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC names 10 funding simplification ‘pathfinders’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government refuses to commit to statutory officer guidance 01 Apr 2025 - Northumberland exit payments were unlawful 01 Apr 2025 - Workforce concerns raised in social care survey 01 Apr 2025 - District to give staff private health insurance 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog chief to earn up to £149,000 01 Apr 2025 - Government defeated in virtual meetings vote 01 Apr 2025 - OBR warning over local authority borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - Bankrupt Woking consults on future of services 01 Apr 2025 - Lloyd: Pandemic simulation kept secret from sector 01 Apr 2025 - Third of parents say school travel affected by cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Plans to increase Scottish council tax published 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to bid for 5G funding 01 Apr 2025 - Gauke calls for new Office for Spending Evaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Town centre parking charges to be reviewed 01 Apr 2025 - Hospital discharge delays 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers consider curbs on councils’ use of 20mph speed limits 01 Apr 2025 - Exploitation of care workers in England is ‘appalling’, says government adviser 01 Apr 2025 - DHSC to put £600m into social care workforce 01 Apr 2025 - Arlingclose implicates “too late and too weak” regulators in slew of section 114 notices 01 Apr 2025 - Shropshire denies bankruptcy ‘looming’ 01 Apr 2025 - Former Tory leader still director of Woking companies 01 Apr 2025 - County shelves combined authority plans 01 Apr 2025 - Government rejects unitaries' devo bid for Solent 01 Apr 2025 - Second investment zone announced 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts mean addicts left to fight disease alone 01 Apr 2025 - PM rules out Birmingham bailout 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for urgent clarity after further EPR delay 01 Apr 2025 - Negative culture led to Northumberland’s collapse, says Gilbert review 01 Apr 2025 - Three areas to trial children’s social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling reforms delayed 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare expansion 'won't work' without help for nurseries 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Root and branch’ funding review needed 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding critical for housing reforms, LGA tells Gove 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to create Local Government White Paper 01 Apr 2025 - Councils look to end children’s services partnership 01 Apr 2025 - Successful delivery of housing infrastructure fund ‘appears unachievable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils pay out £11m in pothole-related compensation 01 Apr 2025 - Charities accuse Government of social care 'wild goose chase' 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay increases do not add to inflation, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Britain’s council housing shame as majority of councils fail to build a single home 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole-related breakdowns at highest level for five years, RAC reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation brings income tax windfall for Treasury 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of new Ofsted inspections could ‘push many to breaking point’ 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up ‘not translated into reality’ 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC to implement its new proposals to clear audit backlog by year-end 01 Apr 2025 - Housing and infrastructure in doubt after funding pulled 01 Apr 2025 - Minister rated as biggest risk by LGPS advisory board 01 Apr 2025 - By-election results declared 01 Apr 2025 - Councils cannot afford new care regime, CCN warns 01 Apr 2025 - UK ministers urged to extend hotel eviction deadline for Afghans 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrows less than expected in June 01 Apr 2025 - Gove strengthens Croydon intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘simply do not understand’ evidence given by Matt Hancock, inquiry told 01 Apr 2025 - Councils issue record number of fines for ‘busybody offences’ in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Voters go to the polls in three by-elections in England 01 Apr 2025 - Central oversight of councils could provide early warnings of crisis, experts say 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Change is necessary’ to clear audit backlog, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - PM’s council in the dark over asylum seeker placement 01 Apr 2025 - Rural bus services hit new low after losing out on post-Covid funding 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates: Sharp rise less likely after inflation surprise 01 Apr 2025 - South Yorkshire named as UK’s first investment zone 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog’s data explorer is dreary and uninviting 01 Apr 2025 - Judicial review warning to councils over boycotts bill 01 Apr 2025 - More councils highlight financial threats 01 Apr 2025 - Further Government defeats in Lords over levelling up Bill 01 Apr 2025 - Seven in 10 support more control over local services 01 Apr 2025 - Opposition grows among teachers to 6.5% pay offer in England 01 Apr 2025 - Kent warned of potential S114 notice if it fails to make savings 01 Apr 2025 - Counties call for transferral of Local Enterprise Partnership powers 01 Apr 2025 - Newcastle City Council calls for vaping restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian refugees: I’d love to stay in Britain but renting is impossible 01 Apr 2025 - British families could be paid to take in Afghan refugees to reduce housing asylum seekers in hotels 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson’s ‘green bus’ revolution in chaos as Government admits scheme that cost millions isn’t working 01 Apr 2025 - Flooded development offers depressing insight into UK housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - There's a crisis in supporting children with special needs - this is George's story 01 Apr 2025 - Using LGPS to fund private equity ‘may backfire’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government warned over unfunded pay offers 01 Apr 2025 - Southampton begins ‘informal discussions’ with government to avoid S114 01 Apr 2025 - Bradford reserves ‘close to exhaustion’ as director of finance warns ‘numerous councils are nearing s114 notices’ 01 Apr 2025 - Two boroughs warn of potential s114 notices 01 Apr 2025 - CCN report on economic recovery 01 Apr 2025 - High Court in agency strike warning 01 Apr 2025 - Government makes public sector pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Gillian Keegan: Headteachers should pick up absent pupils from home 01 Apr 2025 - Councils say government is "losing its grip" on SEND support crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Using LGPS to fund private equity ‘may backfire’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of vulnerable kids languished in inadequate homes costing taxpayers £2m a week 01 Apr 2025 - Home care providers in England fear collapse over unpaid invoices 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak agrees to public sector pay rises of at least 6% without raising budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Government defeated five times over levelling up bill 01 Apr 2025 - Metro mayor: Combined authority model doesn’t work 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC and Homes England withdraw £170m from unitary 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns Hastings about possible section 114 01 Apr 2025 - Southampton at risk of section 114 01 Apr 2025 - Councils left in lurch over housing benefit assurance 01 Apr 2025 - Slough still at risk despite gains, say commissioners 01 Apr 2025 - Nutrient neutrality law change 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay 01 Apr 2025 - Social care workforce 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC returns housing and building safety funds to Treasury 01 Apr 2025 - Turn empty buildings into affordable housing, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Over-65s suffering due to lack of joined up local care 01 Apr 2025 - Maximum fine for fly-tippers more than doubles 01 Apr 2025 - Beating inflation comes before public sector pay, insists Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - Record wage growth fuels fresh inflation fears 01 Apr 2025 - Shortage of planners ‘is slowing house building’ 01 Apr 2025 - Minister refuses to commit to following pay board advice 01 Apr 2025 - Creating homes for autistic young adults 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England, not where most needed 01 Apr 2025 - Council ‘cannot afford’ Elstree Film Studios maintenance 01 Apr 2025 - DWP accounts qualified amid record benefit underpayments 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems make social care their top priority 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: Government faces ‘substantial challenges’ to manage increased debt 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare cash boost underestimates needs, say providers 01 Apr 2025 - No care places for most vulnerable children 01 Apr 2025 - Floodgates to open’ on driving fines as dozens of councils claim new powers 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England 01 Apr 2025 - Kent County Council reports nearly £45m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Social care crisis threatens to ‘bury’ NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Kent launches legal action over asylum-seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - Investigation reveals complaints backlog in Kent 01 Apr 2025 - Increased referrals causing children’s services overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Pension schemes 'half way there' on McCloud 01 Apr 2025 - Labour will offer devo powers ‘irrespective’ of having a mayor 01 Apr 2025 - Nine in 10 councils fear nursery closures 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB ‘did not ask about Woking’s borrowing until 2022’ 01 Apr 2025 - Woking ‘prompts us to look at access to the PWLB’, says Gove 01 Apr 2025 - Gove vetoes ‘level two plus’ devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - Gove announces funding simplification programme 01 Apr 2025 - Public libraries generate £3.4bn a year, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Funding allocations for active travel prescription trial announced 01 Apr 2025 - Guidance on new road condition surveys pushed back 01 Apr 2025 - 'A massive juggle': Summer break childcare gaps meet soaring cost of living 01 Apr 2025 - Housing crisis ‘to worsen’ unless planners are given more funds 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Will it ever happen?’ – sector reacts to Oflog announcement 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham to freeze non-essential spending 01 Apr 2025 - Woking: Section 114 notice ‘isn’t a badge of shame’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Opinion] John Sinnott: The ‘pick and mix’ approach to lobbying is not working 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £3bn funding gap, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - NHS in danger of being buried under social care avalanche, Sir Ed Davey warns 01 Apr 2025 - Striking teachers in England accused of undermining pupils’ pandemic recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to get £204m boost to help deliver childcare expansion 01 Apr 2025 - Expansion of free childcare may not be delivered universally, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Local councils in England at risk of insolvency over £3bn funding black hole 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn thousands of Afghans who came to UK after Taliban seized power could become homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Michael Gove calls for end to four-day week trial at South Cambridgeshire District Council 01 Apr 2025 - Simplifying the funding landscape for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Strategic Basis of OFLOG Published 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall should ‘reciprocate’ Oflog scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - New LGA chair: ‘The old ways are not working’ 01 Apr 2025 - NHS plan urges ‘one workforce’ approach to health and care 01 Apr 2025 - Gove faces limited legacy as devo talks stall 01 Apr 2025 - Minister orders district to halt four-day week ‘immediately’ 01 Apr 2025 - Energy boss says prices might rise this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Lord Bob Kerslake dies 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham to drastically cut spending after uncovering £760m equal pay cost 01 Apr 2025 - NHS health chiefs demand an ‘urgent’ plan to tackle the social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Labour plan to give teachers £2,400 to stop them quitting 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Desperate and angry’ headteachers in England ready to join strikes in autumn 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit by ‘completely unsustainable’ annual bill for free bus passes 01 Apr 2025 - Watchdog criticises Defra for decade of stalled recycling rates in England 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils in England sent to churches and village halls as crumbling schools close 01 Apr 2025 - SEND challenges highlighted 01 Apr 2025 - FRC to propose policy direction to tackle council accounts backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Debt refinancing a major concern for Croydon Council as interest rates rise 01 Apr 2025 - PAC: audit delays impeding accountability for £100bn of council spending 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to expand peer review in wake of council failures 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Uncomfortable’ conversations needed to clear audit backlog, FRC says 01 Apr 2025 - Dwayne Johnson: Hewitt response fails to recognise scale of change needed 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham City Council faces £760m equal pay bill 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors quitting over in-person meetings, survey suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Ditch ‘barmy’ windows rule that makes new homes darker, ministers urged 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for funding pot to fix schools 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock: Whitehall oversight of care was terrible 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt wanted 50% cut to public health, says ex-PHE boss 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog ‘unlikely to have prevented major failure’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: There is a case for more oversight of local government 01 Apr 2025 - Sector tells MPs 'we need your help' on audit 01 Apr 2025 - Kent to vote on devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Close to breaking – the dire state of local audit 01 Apr 2025 - Newly listed properties unaffordable to benefit recipients 01 Apr 2025 - Affordable Homes Programme change announced 01 Apr 2025 - Health of children worsening 01 Apr 2025 - Social care not prepared for pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Unsafe school buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Warning more funding needed to enforce no-fault evictions ban 01 Apr 2025 - UK risks becoming reliant on overseas care workers, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - Trailblazers: Social care charging reform will fail to tackle system stress 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable families facing £5,600 shortfalls 01 Apr 2025 - 100 care homes lying empty, according to Lib Dems 01 Apr 2025 - Prince William unveils campaign to tackle homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax arrears hit ‘historic high’ of £5.5bn 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay increase must be responsible - PM 01 Apr 2025 - Sector in regulation rift days before Oflog launch 01 Apr 2025 - Usable reserves drop 11% 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt: ‘Regret’ at not solving social care issues 01 Apr 2025 - PAC: local audit workforce ‘worryingly low’ as crisis set to deepen 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for urgent action over auditing backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey County Council staff to be balloted for strike action 01 Apr 2025 - Discharge delays overwhelming hospitals, NAO finds 01 Apr 2025 - Call for sanctions for late accounts amid fears of ‘more Wokings’ 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: ID rules leave 14,000 unable to vote 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rises 01 Apr 2025 - The truth about council failures 01 Apr 2025 - UK debt breaks 100% ceiling 01 Apr 2025 - More councils rely on reserves to balance care budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Government turned down Woking plea for help 01 Apr 2025 - Woking ‘armchair auditor’ had concerns ignored 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock collapse shows councillors need finance training 01 Apr 2025 - Lead inspector: ‘Nobody’ saw Thurrock collapse coming 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation unchanged 01 Apr 2025 - DIY waste charges to end 01 Apr 2025 - Councils concerned about meeting minimum levels of social care 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of education, health and care plans made 01 Apr 2025 - Gove backs Ofsted-style ratings plan for new housing estates 01 Apr 2025 - Kent County Council closes four schools following concerns over concrete 01 Apr 2025 - Iain Murray: System-wide amnesty needed to solve local audit backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation forcing councils to make extra cuts, survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs named in King's Birthday Honours 01 Apr 2025 - UKSPF allocations remain largely unspent 01 Apr 2025 - Government delays buy-one-get-free junk food ban 01 Apr 2025 - Britons ‘to be priority on council house lists’ 01 Apr 2025 - Mortgage rates expected to rise again as PM rules out extra help for struggling households 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of £700m budget cuts as more than half say they will struggle this year 01 Apr 2025 - Householders to receive money off bills for going green under Labour plans 01 Apr 2025 - Extended Producer Responsibility Delays Rumoured 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock services need to be stripped back to statutory minimum, says new report 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA: Thurrock report underlines risks of ‘unique’ investment strategies 01 Apr 2025 - Government to fund pay rise for council healthcare services 01 Apr 2025 - Published 22/23 draft accounts show ‘worrying’ decrease in councils’ reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Councils refrain from PWLB borrowing due to economic instability 01 Apr 2025 - Worcestershire County Council appoints Phil Rook as s151 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock commissioners call for sector-wide change 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Government to scrap Levelling Up Fund bidding 01 Apr 2025 - Clark: Time to simplify local government 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock failings ‘attributable to deeper, systemic weaknesses’ 01 Apr 2025 - Barry Quirk: More discipline needed in exercising general power of competence 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap proposed infrastructure levy, council chiefs say 01 Apr 2025 - Nine councils to receive £10m for traveller sites 01 Apr 2025 - Marmot: ‘Regressive’ funding cuts worsened health inequalities 01 Apr 2025 - Building reforms ‘will worsen housing crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock services need to be stripped back to statutory minimum, says new report 01 Apr 2025 - Woking needs ‘significant’ financial help from government – chief executive 01 Apr 2025 - Emergency procurement rules tightened 01 Apr 2025 - The uncertainty principle [SIGOMA] 01 Apr 2025 - Future-proofing the workforce [Social Finance] 01 Apr 2025 - Council leaders criticise rejection of key Hewitt recommendation 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Government to scrap Levelling Up Fund bidding 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock commissioners call for sector-wide change 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for pay ‘clarity’ 01 Apr 2025 - Consequences would be 'unfair' for late accounts submission 01 Apr 2025 - School meals food inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax triples since its introduction 01 Apr 2025 - Andrew Cozens: Covid inquiry leaves social care at the back of the queue again 01 Apr 2025 - Government launches £150 million fund to help Ukrainians into their own homes 01 Apr 2025 - ‘It keeps you up at night’: More than three million taken to court unable to pay their council tax 01 Apr 2025 - NHS to deploy street mental health teams to help England’s rough sleepers 01 Apr 2025 - Farm pollution blocks new homes across country 01 Apr 2025 - Gove: Trust councils on waste collection 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers accused of neglecting ‘tidal wave’ of child mental ill health in England 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing under scrutiny amid Woking cash crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Union backs national care service 01 Apr 2025 - Scale of Woking mismanagement revealed 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC to focus on elected mayors for next devo tranche, leader claims 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Government to share more data with councils 01 Apr 2025 - Local audit delays leave MoJ accounts unable to be signed off – and pose risk to NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Woking’s financial strategy was ‘cross-party’ in ‘almost all instances’ 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk to reinstate chief executive role 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors should push ahead with accounts sign off, says NAO head 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘shun’ pothole protection that extends road life by 15 years 01 Apr 2025 - Stab vests are too small for bailiffs – and it’s causing an eviction crisis for landlords 01 Apr 2025 - LUHC audit inquiry: how to solve the auditing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Do computers dream of running a local authority? 01 Apr 2025 - Urgent action needed on adapting local areas to climate change, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Woking issues section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to miss cycling and walking targets - report 01 Apr 2025 - UK to have highest inflation in developed world this year, OECD warns 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urge Government not to delay waste reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Social care costs 01 Apr 2025 - Extended Producer Responsibility ‘to drive up costs for consumers’ - BRC 01 Apr 2025 - Fair for asylum seekers to share hotel rooms, says Robert Jenrick 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities ‘unsure of security or ethical concerns’ in their use of surveillance cameras 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation on £1.8bn LGPS change launched 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs reject pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of Afghan refugees to be evicted from Home Office hotels with no offer of housing 01 Apr 2025 - Catalogue of failings in Home Office’s ‘flawed’ asylum system revealed in UN report 01 Apr 2025 - Universal Credit childcare payments to rise nearly 50% 01 Apr 2025 - UK food inflation falls 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Dearth of data’ limiting levelling up knowledge 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 100 primary schools 'at risk of closure' as birth rates fall and young families leave cities amid high living costs 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office staff threaten to strike over Rwanda deportation policy 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol schools deficit a ‘huge financial risk’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ex-LGA chief: ‘Peer reviews should be mandatory’ 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman: Woking’s problems ‘bigger than other failed councils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up ‘unlikely to be successful’ without funding rethink 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole spending drop 01 Apr 2025 - Rising social care costs 01 Apr 2025 - Children in care being moved further away 01 Apr 2025 - Building new homes becoming ‘almost impossible’ 01 Apr 2025 - Stop recycling juice cartons, toothpaste tubes and takeaway boxes to reduce waste, Government says 01 Apr 2025 - More than 90 primary schools to close or face closure for lack of pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to let councils buy land cheaply to tackle housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Health services to be hit as workers left out of pay deal 01 Apr 2025 - Finance chiefs fear ‘considerable risk’ to their councils and reputation in face of reporting deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon to dispose of over £50m of assets to help deal with debt burden 01 Apr 2025 - Questions raised over asylum hotels pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Government steps in at Woking after huge debts revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Joanna Killian: ‘AI could be the solution to the workforce crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock puts garden waste collection on hold 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of children in care missing school 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol council faces bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £165m skills fund 01 Apr 2025 - Local roads funding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘No oversight’ over Levelling Up spending 01 Apr 2025 - Audit backlog will slow account simplification work 01 Apr 2025 - Neighbourhood services key to community cohesion 01 Apr 2025 - UK not heading for recession 01 Apr 2025 - Fall in inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Tutoring funding to double 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole-related breakdowns 01 Apr 2025 - Harm caused by alcohol 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer reveals more on National Care Service 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up and devolution 'still too slow' 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing £12bn higher than last year 01 Apr 2025 - More than 360,000 frontline workers vote on pay strike 01 Apr 2025 - Pension fund managers called to account on climate 01 Apr 2025 - Natural England blamed for blocking new homes 01 Apr 2025 - LTNs blocked from £200m active travel cash 01 Apr 2025 - Almshouses residents may live up to two and a half years longer 01 Apr 2025 - £200m active travel cash allocated but LTNs blocked 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC dials up LGA improvement pressure 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit by further Capita data breach 01 Apr 2025 - LUHC audit inquiry: should s151 officers be held ultimately accountable and penalised for late reporting? 01 Apr 2025 - Leicestershire CC: balancing MTFS ‘much more’ challenging than ever before 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole compensation claims have cost councils £300MILLION in the last decade - enough to fill 5million craters - as figures show more than 2,000 people have been seriously hurt and 94 killed in crash 01 Apr 2025 - More children than ever are being home-schooled in England, data shows 01 Apr 2025 - Tories accused of levelling down as regions languish behind London 01 Apr 2025 - Labour vows to introduce Scottish-style right to roam law in England 01 Apr 2025 - Local audit: backlog could reach 1,000 accounts this year 01 Apr 2025 - England’s million missing homes 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up directors scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Rental reforms to end no-fault eviction and blanket pet bans 01 Apr 2025 - Bus £2 fare cap extended to end of October 01 Apr 2025 - Council leaders question planning fee hike 01 Apr 2025 - Local leaders drive multi-billion infrastructure plans 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Incentive’ proposed for councils to encourage recovery of lost Covid cash 01 Apr 2025 - More than 1,600 homeless families left in English hotels and B&Bs past legal limit 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan families in Yorkshire issued with eviction letters from Suella Braverman 01 Apr 2025 - Bin crews to work four-day week as UK trials extend to public sector frontline 01 Apr 2025 - Abolished district accused of awarding grants beyond its authority 01 Apr 2025 - Adult obesity in rural areas up by over 1m 01 Apr 2025 - Rate rise adds £12bn to UK bills 01 Apr 2025 - Planning fees increase call 01 Apr 2025 - Net migration may hit one million 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers are being denied millions of pounds worth of pothole payouts as councils reject three in four claims 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rises at record high as teachers quit 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend more than £130m on paperwork applying for 'levelling up' funding 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to ‘deprioritise’ old audits to clear backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Support funds should be locally-led, say councillors 01 Apr 2025 - Councils net zero progress ‘hindered’ by lack of funding 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs pen second critical levelling up letter 01 Apr 2025 - County faces judicial review over care home fees 01 Apr 2025 - GMB joins Unite in rejecting pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Environment Agency pulls £50m scheme to protect homes in England from flooding 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords to be given more powers to evict tenants for antisocial behaviour 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England interest rate increased 0.25 percentage points to 4.5% 01 Apr 2025 - UK saw sluggish growth at start of year 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Ministers to ditch deadline to scrap retained EU laws 01 Apr 2025 - Councils accused of holding back childcare funding 01 Apr 2025 - Davies expected to take over as chair of LGA 01 Apr 2025 - English councils holding back millions of pounds of free childcare funds 01 Apr 2025 - Council red tape leaves families waiting longer than ever for home improvements 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords ‘profiting from sub-standard housing’ for vulnerable people 01 Apr 2025 - Big losses for Conservative councils 01 Apr 2025 - Council ‘deeply concerned’ by coronation arrests 01 Apr 2025 - 53/23 Four nations, better together: how devolution is changing the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Labour's new council leaders pledge to take cost of living action within 100 days 01 Apr 2025 - School cuts cost pupils £5,000 each 01 Apr 2025 - Council staff respond to Sudan evacuation 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh Government announces council funding reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Local government workers from one union have rejected the pay offer for 2023-24, paving the way for industrial action in the summer. 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation reignites in UK as economy powers further away from feared recession 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher strikes: More schools than ever unable to fully open in England 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Political priorities must change to halt neighbourhood decline 01 Apr 2025 - Urban councils call for redistributive funding model 01 Apr 2025 - Employers reduce LGPS contributions 01 Apr 2025 - Labour promises councils powers to start new bus services 01 Apr 2025 - First UK council trial of four-day week set to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for 11,000 more school nurses in UK as children’s needs grow 01 Apr 2025 - Raft of legal challenges to voter ID laws set to launch after local elections 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office to acquire fleet of ships to house asylum seekers 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS valuation gives ‘cause for optimism’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils better placed to deliver welfare than DWP, leaders claim 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Rural premium’ 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in pothole-related breakdowns due to ‘scandalous’ state of roads – RAC 01 Apr 2025 - The ‘crucial, highly valuable’ perk that striking teachers are keeping quiet about 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS valuation gives ‘cause for optimism’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in poorest areas hit by cuts nearly three times the richest 01 Apr 2025 - Press release: CIPFA report to help public bodies develop sustainability reporting strategies 01 Apr 2025 - Schools face disruption as teachers across England stage fresh strikes over pay 01 Apr 2025 - Poorest councils suffer cuts three times higher than richest 01 Apr 2025 - Care leaders warn social care system ‘run out of road’ 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England economist says people need to accept they are poorer 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections 2023: 4% of voters without voter ID apply through scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Call for social care road map as system is ‘so close to breaking point’ 01 Apr 2025 - A broken record, by Michael Hudson 01 Apr 2025 - Uncertainty means ‘we’re not going to use our reserves if we don’t have to’ 01 Apr 2025 - Research: Cutting through the confusion of rising reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Cyber attack led to data breach 01 Apr 2025 - Council agrees to refund thousands in school transport costs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in dark over new funding stream 01 Apr 2025 - More than 4,000 people die while homeless 01 Apr 2025 - LGC survey: Housing plans hit as inflation bites 01 Apr 2025 - School leaders union to vote over strike action for first time over pay and staff shortages 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: ageing population to put pressure on public finances 01 Apr 2025 - It’s time to fix the audit problems together 01 Apr 2025 - Khan: billions lost to ‘substandard’ homes 01 Apr 2025 - When are the local elections 2023? Date, where council votes are taking place and how to vote in the UK polls 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands have holiday home less than six miles from their main address 01 Apr 2025 - Call for urgent measures to prevent ‘appalling’ abuse of disabled children in UK care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Current local audit deadline ‘unachievable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon set for adverse audit opinion 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary may not need capitalisation direction 01 Apr 2025 - Council set to review governance failures 01 Apr 2025 - Councils fear parks services will be ‘seriously affected’ by cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Number of council staff earning over £100k down post-pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation: Food prices rise at fastest rate for 45 years 01 Apr 2025 - 3,000 town hall bosses paid six-figure salaries 01 Apr 2025 - Senior Tory calls for delay to new voter ID rules over discrimination fears 01 Apr 2025 - Legal threat forces Devon CC to halt care cuts 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Residents are getting poorer services’ – LGC survey reveals the extent of cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Over 5,000 Ukrainian refugee households now homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes could get worse as heavier lorries may be allowed on roads 01 Apr 2025 - James Yarker: Using theatre to explain council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Kent receives improvement notice for SEND failings 01 Apr 2025 - Vaping kits handed out to make England ‘smoke free’ 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey poised for pay strike 01 Apr 2025 - PF election claim check: will keeping more right to buy receipts help councils build social homes? 01 Apr 2025 - Gove accused of treading on 'Department for Transport's toes' 01 Apr 2025 - Ten more councils to receive short break SEND funding 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS: Government to launch another McCloud consultation 01 Apr 2025 - New holiday let rules to protect local people and support tourism 01 Apr 2025 - Elections boss admits still 'unanswered questions' on Voter ID as fears of chaos at polls 01 Apr 2025 - Hotel accommodation for migrants to continue despite £6m-a-day cost 01 Apr 2025 - Energy firms can force fit prepayment meters again but more time to clear debts 01 Apr 2025 - Only one in four unpaid carers receive direct council support 01 Apr 2025 - Adass president: ‘It’s very hard to focus on priorities if everything becomes a priority’ 01 Apr 2025 - Funding allocated to tackle fly-tipping 01 Apr 2025 - Tories expect to lose 1,000 seats 01 Apr 2025 - Department staff costs soar 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog should look at council effectiveness, says accountancy body 01 Apr 2025 - Public health services risk being scaled back over unfunded NHS pay rises 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers face ‘pothole postcode lottery’, FoI reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Care home provider dividends grew amid Covid-19 funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to reprofile ‘city deal’ projects as inflation disrupts progress 01 Apr 2025 - Two-year IFRS 9 statutory override extension a ‘pragmatic’ move 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Staff propped up care homes without extra pay, says report 01 Apr 2025 - The great pothole divide: Roads in the north of England have the greatest concentration of wheel-busting divots with the worst offenders receiving nearly 20 pothole reports per mile of tarmac, figures 01 Apr 2025 - UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, predicts IMF 01 Apr 2025 - All state schools in England face being shut at same time during teachers' strikes 01 Apr 2025 - UK housing crisis: planning targets scrapped in ‘win for nimbys’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government's social care vision 'in tatters' as funding held back 01 Apr 2025 - Kent faces £50m overspend amid s114 warnings 01 Apr 2025 - £4.3m bed cost shambles 01 Apr 2025 - William Burns: Fair cost of care is a long way off for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Budget LGPS announcement ‘really disturbing’ for sector 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall abandons devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Councils offered £3,500 to house refugees on barges 01 Apr 2025 - Fare cap increased bus journeys 01 Apr 2025 - Head teachers in England reject pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care budget cut ‘deeply disappointing’ 01 Apr 2025 - How poor housing costs the NHS £1.4bn a year 01 Apr 2025 - Voter photo ID plan attacked as UK data shows no cases of impersonation 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform funding halved for England, government confirms 01 Apr 2025 - Men dominate 95% of local authorities in Britain, data shows 01 Apr 2025 - Number of civil servants reporting long Covid impact was double public rate 01 Apr 2025 - Planning applications in England fall to record low 01 Apr 2025 - Local roads repairs 01 Apr 2025 - Revaluation 2023 list published 01 Apr 2025 - Social care plan delayed 01 Apr 2025 - To freeze or not to freeze – the question is who gets to decide 01 Apr 2025 - Failure to report child abuse to be made illegal 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to keep 100% of right to buy receipts 01 Apr 2025 - Audit headcount facing pressure as private sector expands 01 Apr 2025 - Running a pub 'is worse now than it was during COVID' 01 Apr 2025 - Britain’s care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorkshire: ‘It’s going to be very intense’ 01 Apr 2025 - Bill delay to deny councils £93m from new second home premium 01 Apr 2025 - Councils stretched despite fund boost 01 Apr 2025 - Fire services: Shocking bullying and abuse widespread, report says 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grew at the end of last year 01 Apr 2025 - Labour Pledges Council Tax Freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Lincolnshire districts back unitary idea 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Postcode lottery’ undermines plastic recycling 01 Apr 2025 - New unitary councils set to launch 01 Apr 2025 - Number of homes available for rent fallen by a third 01 Apr 2025 - School capital funding ‘falls well short’ 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan refugees to be moved out of hotels under new government plans 01 Apr 2025 - Harris under pressure to back slashing of audit requirements 01 Apr 2025 - Oxfordshire parents object to withdrawal of school bus services 01 Apr 2025 - School buildings to receive £2.5bn investment 01 Apr 2025 - Less than 10% of the levelling up fund spent so far 01 Apr 2025 - Early retirement has forced up inflation, says Andrew Bailey 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords promised power to evict rowdy tenants in two weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to get more powers over anti-social behaviour 01 Apr 2025 - UK migration bill warning 01 Apr 2025 - Ovo launches first energy deal below Government price cap as gas tumbles 01 Apr 2025 - Two-thirds of people who have used social care report bad experiences 01 Apr 2025 - Half of Britain's swimming pools could close or face cuts over energy bills 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC lifts restriction on UKSPF skills spending 01 Apr 2025 - Haldane: Levelling up plans ‘insufficiently ambitious’ 01 Apr 2025 - Devon gets permission to submit level two devo bid 01 Apr 2025 - NAO urges action to avoid repeat of covid grants chaos 01 Apr 2025 - County council leaders issue ‘bleak’ finance warning 01 Apr 2025 - Care provider energy costs 01 Apr 2025 - Public health services will be cut to fund NHS pay rise, warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - LATIF North: ‘banking crisis not over but don’t panic’ 01 Apr 2025 - S151s: without multi-year settlements ‘many more’ s114s will be issued 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rate rise 01 Apr 2025 - Health spending for preventive measures 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spending almost two thirds on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Spending on ‘inadequate’ care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Average council tax above £2,000 01 Apr 2025 - NHS pay deal: Health services will be cut to fund rise, warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - UK interest rates: Another rise expected as prices soar 01 Apr 2025 - Social housing providers awarded £1.4bn for energy upgrades 01 Apr 2025 - Forbes: It is ‘illogical’ for one organisation to be in charge of social care and transport 01 Apr 2025 - Veg shortages drive surprise jump in UK inflation 01 Apr 2025 - DfE agrees 20 ‘safety valve’ deals to address Send deficits 01 Apr 2025 - Plans to change recycling risks chaos, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Shortfall in pothole repair budgets hits new high, research shows 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living creates ‘second health emergency’ after Covid 01 Apr 2025 - £500m set to be cut from social care workforce and reform budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Over 70 cultural venues set for £60m investment 01 Apr 2025 - Rural councils faced with ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Cambridgeshire receives £49m to improve SEND provision 01 Apr 2025 - Budget’s lack of social care support ‘disappointing’ 01 Apr 2025 - Failed levelling up fund bids receive Budget backing 01 Apr 2025 - Employers criticise union timetable after offer rejection 01 Apr 2025 - Lords complain of 'air of mystique' around Levelling Up Bill 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers’ strikes in England paused for talks 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘to cut £250m from social care workforce funding’ in England 01 Apr 2025 - Stagnating wages cost UK workers £11,000 a year, says Resolution Foundation 01 Apr 2025 - Waste collection changes risk chaos, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian refugees struggling to find accommodation after leaving UK sponsors 01 Apr 2025 - One in 24 local road bridges cannot carry heaviest vehicles, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole repairs fund gets £200m boost in Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills support to last until summer 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2023: Hunt sounds the death knell for LEPs 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2023: Hunt confirms investment zone cash 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2023: Hunt to boost mayors' financial autonomy 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt stumps up tens of billions for infrastructure 01 Apr 2025 - Public health grant of £3.5bn ‘insufficient’ 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2023: Hunt confirms £200m for 'potholes curse' 01 Apr 2025 - LGA peer review urges action on sector-led improvement 01 Apr 2025 - Unions reject local government pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Councils plead for extra audit time 01 Apr 2025 - Library expenditure in Great Britain falls 17% 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor to announce 12 new investment zones 01 Apr 2025 - No extra social care funding for struggling councils 01 Apr 2025 - School nurses at risk of being cut 01 Apr 2025 - Coastal areas top the ‘economically inactive’ league 01 Apr 2025 - Pension pot boost for two million 01 Apr 2025 - Care worker recruitment crisis 01 Apr 2025 - £63 million lifeline to keep pools afloat 01 Apr 2025 - Minister mounts Oflog defence 01 Apr 2025 - Minister will ‘see what we can do’ to ‘speed up’ finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Local roads survey 01 Apr 2025 - Parking charges 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Budget childcare pledge 01 Apr 2025 - I’ll cut childcare costs to boost workforce, says Jeremy Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes funding 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall will let mayors decide how to spend billions 01 Apr 2025 - Unions deride local government pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - 12 councils say statutory services threatened by cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Expert warning over public health levelling up target 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to beef up council oversight amid Oflog fears 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care reforms due in spring 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt under pressure to spend and cut taxes as economic outlook improves 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy rebounds 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for pothole funding in Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon approves 15% tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of eroding local support services for children 01 Apr 2025 - Counties urge action on disintegrating roads 01 Apr 2025 - Divided unitary ‘beset with difficulties’, peer review finds 01 Apr 2025 - DCMS rejects leisure centres energy support plea 01 Apr 2025 - Government signals further flexibility for Thurrock, Croydon & Slough 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole analysis 01 Apr 2025 - Union leads protest against Croydon’s proposed council tax increase 01 Apr 2025 - Cause of local authority audit delays ‘multi-faceted’ 01 Apr 2025 - Firefighters vote to accept new pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of councils plan more cuts at same time as maximum tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Future of local government finance must be about change, say leaders 01 Apr 2025 - We need to talk about local taxation 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should become primary provider of childcare, survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - Campaign to discourage speeding on rural roads launched 01 Apr 2025 - Council climate plans failing vulnerable people 01 Apr 2025 - Requests for publicly-funded care at record high 01 Apr 2025 - Herefordshire Council to retain control of children’s services 01 Apr 2025 - Councils underfunding care by over £2bn 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘in the dark’ about public health funding 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up Bill ‘insulting’ to districts 01 Apr 2025 - Gove summoned to appear before MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Poorer pupils can’t access top state schools 01 Apr 2025 - Number of UK children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4m 01 Apr 2025 - Integrated care boards told to cut running costs by 30% 01 Apr 2025 - English national parks get £4.4 million funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Social housing set to lose nearly 60,000 homes 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rises ‘ruled out of Budget’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt ‘has extra £30bn’ to ease cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of funds for levelling up projects go unspent 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bill support to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - SEND plans ‘do not go far enough’ 01 Apr 2025 - Future of local government finance must be about change, say leaders 01 Apr 2025 - 33,000 more civil servants to join 100,000 already walking out next month 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands more specialist school places to be created for SEND children in England - as government aims to end postcode lottery 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of pupils in England lose out on first-choice secondary school place 01 Apr 2025 - Children's social worker numbers drop for first time since 2017 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding set to fall to lowest level since WWII 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham council spends £250,000 on failed levelling-up bids 01 Apr 2025 - Investigator says 'heads must roll' after Croydon collapse 01 Apr 2025 - UK benefits fall short of minimum living cost by £140 a month, charities say 01 Apr 2025 - One-third of UK funding for insulation and heat pumps remains unspent 01 Apr 2025 - Government hiding £28bn of ‘stealth cuts’ to public services, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt handed £24bn spending boost before Budget 01 Apr 2025 - First choice secondary school offers set to hit all-time low 01 Apr 2025 - Coronation street parties 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on candy-flavoured vapes 01 Apr 2025 - A total of 73,000 vehicle breakdowns have been caused by damaged roads in 2023 01 Apr 2025 - Care home capacity in UK shrinks for first time in three years 01 Apr 2025 - Survey throws doubt on prompt energy bill help 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA to 'look again' at select committee's report 01 Apr 2025 - Pay spine review 'inevitable,' employers admit 01 Apr 2025 - Local government 2023-24 pay offer announced 01 Apr 2025 - 3.5% pay rises recommended for NHS, police, teachers and judges - as union brands it 'a disgrace' 01 Apr 2025 - Bed blocking down by just 3% a month on from £250m plan 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up advisory council has met seven times 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding reform ‘needed now more than ever’ 01 Apr 2025 - Pay rise of just 3.5pc for public sector in effort to halt strikes 01 Apr 2025 - District agrees council tax cut 01 Apr 2025 - Most firms to keep four-day working week after successful trial 01 Apr 2025 - Government sees surprise budget surplus in January 01 Apr 2025 - UK ‘barking up wrong tree’ trying to get over-50s back to work, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills set to rise by 20% despite expected fall in price cap 01 Apr 2025 - COVID business relief fund ‘carnage’, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Just one council chief went to PM’s winter health and care summit 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA warns Tower Hamlets ‘going wrong again’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation drops 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Broken’ council funding system has ‘favoured’ wealthy areas over past 13 years 01 Apr 2025 - Three-quarters of councils set to increase council tax to maximum 01 Apr 2025 - Performance body planned, but no league table return 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey council agrees to review SEND support 01 Apr 2025 - Latest drug and alcohol funding criticised as ‘not sustainable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon asks for more help to balance books 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax tracker: Freezing bills to be ‘on the side of residents’ 01 Apr 2025 - Over 200,000 children missing out on free school meals 01 Apr 2025 - Over £60m announced to support care for vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up director appointed amid recruitment uncertainty 01 Apr 2025 - Bus funding extended 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick sets out plans for asylum system 01 Apr 2025 - Bus service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Lessons in cupboards in crowded specialist schools 01 Apr 2025 - NHS Wales: Patient in hospital for weeks due to social care backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Unions call for urgent action on England’s ‘dangerous’ school buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers’ workloads could be cut in bid to halt strikes in schools 01 Apr 2025 - Nursery fees 'to rise by £1,000 this year' as childcare providers struggle with costs - forcing parents to quit work 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers' strikes: Unions demand 'concrete' pay offer ahead of crunch talks 01 Apr 2025 - Millions facing 5% increases from April 01 Apr 2025 - County council sets first ever billion pound budget 01 Apr 2025 - Plans to let councils set up academy trusts thrown into doubt 01 Apr 2025 - Tensions over children's social workers 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy avoids recession 01 Apr 2025 - Banning Log Burners in some areas 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords scramble to take back properties as Michael Gove prepares to scrap ‘no fault’ evictions 01 Apr 2025 - UK Firefighters' strike postponed as union votes over new pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury reins in levelling up spending amid Gove’s plan for more grants 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak should expand free childcare to tackle workforce shortages, says CBI 01 Apr 2025 - Indoor air quality should be monitored in public places, says Chris Whitty 01 Apr 2025 - Braverman expected to overhaul Prevent 01 Apr 2025 - Food waste delay 'nailed down' 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock opposition will vote against council tax rise above 5% 01 Apr 2025 - Permission for extra council tax rise in three authorities criticised 01 Apr 2025 - Civil servants to strike on budget day 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face difficulties building on polluted land 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet Reshuffle 01 Apr 2025 - Pocklington to leave DLUHC amid Whitehall changes 01 Apr 2025 - Social care funding intended to ‘go beyond inflationary pressures’ 01 Apr 2025 - Jamieson ‘disappointed’ by finance settlement’s lack of extra support for districts 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC loses minister and top civil servant in PM’s reshuffle 01 Apr 2025 - PM expected to reshape government departments 01 Apr 2025 - One in five homes have not cashed energy vouchers 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC releases final local government finance settlement with an extra £29m 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems propose social care pay increase 01 Apr 2025 - Tax referendum threshold raised for three councils 01 Apr 2025 - County chiefs call for powers to solve rural workforce crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘in the dark’ about public health funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils still vulnerable to online attacks, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss ‘concerned’ by Norfolk devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - UK apprenticeship levy is a mistake, businesses warn 01 Apr 2025 - Walking and cycling routes to get £200 million boost 01 Apr 2025 - Councils receive £53m for drug and alcohol treatment 01 Apr 2025 - Future of bus services ‘hangs in the balance’ 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates set to rise but bank finds ‘inflation has peaked’ 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 14,000 NHS beds are still occupied by patients fit enough to go home 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face ‘volatile’ and ‘uncertain’ long-term funding outlook 01 Apr 2025 - Slough confirms appointment of new section 151 officer 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA to lead reviews of council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s £200m response to MacAlister review ‘falls short’ 01 Apr 2025 - MacAlister: DfE’s plan ‘doesn’t represent the scale of transformation needed’ 01 Apr 2025 - DfE plans crackdown on children’s social care agencies 01 Apr 2025 - Plans for new children’s funding formula within two years 01 Apr 2025 - UK has 'hidden army' of three million economically inactive 01 Apr 2025 - UK interest rates to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s social care implementation strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary with £1.8bn debt starts talks with Cipfa 01 Apr 2025 - Khan condemns system of ‘begging’ for levelling up cash 01 Apr 2025 - Is it game over for levelling up? 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs and unions submit 2023 pay claims 01 Apr 2025 - Sector given role in NHS plan 01 Apr 2025 - UK only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF 01 Apr 2025 - New powers to curb strike disruption passed by MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Firefighters set to strike for first time since 2003 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors split on solution to workforce crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Energy support scheme success hangs in balance 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock Council to receive over £182m to stabilise services 01 Apr 2025 - North East devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt: I will boost business to fix economy 01 Apr 2025 - Significant tax cuts in Budget unlikely, says Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Tell us which schools could collapse’: Labour will force ministers to reveal data 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to keep more local cash under plans considered by Chancellor 01 Apr 2025 - Government to publish ‘urgent and emergency care’ plan to tackle NHS pressures 01 Apr 2025 - REVEALED: The one priority area that has not applied to the levelling up fund 01 Apr 2025 - Met plans to partly offset council tax rise with discount for residents 01 Apr 2025 - Quickest way to level up is to stop the yobs 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt says significant tax cuts in Budget unlikely 01 Apr 2025 - In defence of IFRS 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges ‘legal obligation’ to consider all devolution asks 01 Apr 2025 - Unlawful under-payment of care workers ‘widespread’ 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Unions poised to submit inflation-busting pay claim 01 Apr 2025 - Gove promises further devolution and funding changes 01 Apr 2025 - Lord Amyas Morse appointed Chair of OFLOG 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector to cost UK ‘tens of billions’ as productivity falls 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt to set out plan for growth 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC urged to come up with timetable to address local audit delays 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Rococo funding complexity leaves ministers trapped 01 Apr 2025 - North South divide 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up costs exceeding grants 01 Apr 2025 - Shrinking commercial income threaten council’s budget 01 Apr 2025 - Gove scales up Thurrock intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Minister admits to shifting goalposts on levelling up bids 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC: Unspent UKSPF allocations can be rolled over to next year 01 Apr 2025 - Archbishops call for 'radical redesign' of England's 'broken' care system 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up directors could be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Urgent clarification’ sought over ‘rule’ barring areas successful in first LUF round 01 Apr 2025 - Government funding for mental health facilities 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for more focus on waste reduction 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Kick in the teeth’ for areas that missed out on levelling up fund 01 Apr 2025 - Minister says ‘no plans’ to merge Ukraine refugee schemes 01 Apr 2025 - £2 billion for levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Workforce crisis threatens services - LGA 01 Apr 2025 - English councils: the budget cuts that are threatening ‘levelling up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up bill has ‘no chance’ without funding, Tory peer warns 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts reduce health visitor force by 40% 01 Apr 2025 - The multi-year funding dream: So near, yet so far 01 Apr 2025 - Nandy: ‘We’re comfortable with messiness in political governance’ 01 Apr 2025 - Private care home pay outs 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Levelling up’ phrase banned 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor planning ‘slimmed down’ spring budget 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation drops slightly again 01 Apr 2025 - £60 million brownfield development fund announced 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bill rise forces closure or scale back of over 350 leisure centre services 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers pressed over refugee funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Over £3.5m family conflict fund open for bids 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC has ‘no plans’ to merge Ukraine schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation could fall rapidly as energy prices drop, says BoE 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - NHS patient trapped in hospital for months due to lack of adequate community care 01 Apr 2025 - NHS patient trapped in hospital for months due to lack of adequate community care 01 Apr 2025 - Pay rises at fastest pace for over 20 years 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers to strike in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - PSAA floats auditor of last resort idea 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury societies ‘disappointed’ over IFRS 9 decision 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office to relocate staff to Stoke-on-Trent 01 Apr 2025 - Winter has been ‘perfect recipe for potholes’, drivers warned 01 Apr 2025 - Families still being charged thousands in care home fees after relative’s death 01 Apr 2025 - New homes at risk as local authorities cut housebuilding plans 01 Apr 2025 - Sector told to 'compete for each other' 01 Apr 2025 - Fair funding delay 'missed opportunity' 01 Apr 2025 - Local government spending up fifth year running 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills predicted to fall 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy beats expectations with November growth 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole repairs 01 Apr 2025 - 20,000 parking fines a day 01 Apr 2025 - Richard Humphries: Hope for social care will come from outside government in 2023 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities to ask to raise council tax above referendum limit 01 Apr 2025 - People could return to work but keep claiming sickness benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of ‘investment zone’ bids axed as Sunak dismantles Truss policy 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of ‘investment zone’ bids axed as Sunak dismantles Truss policy 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC: Plan for more transparency over ‘baffling’ reserves data 01 Apr 2025 - Minister promises ‘meat on the bones’ of Oflog plan 01 Apr 2025 - Joanne Pitt: Good settlement does not lessen need for longer-term funding solution 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock set to seek dispensation to raise council tax beyond referendum limit 01 Apr 2025 - Government care home plan could create more problems, councils fear 01 Apr 2025 - Heslop: Councils are Government funding priority 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities are plotting to increase fees by up to 10% 01 Apr 2025 - Anti-strike bill: Shapps to get power to decide minimum service levels 01 Apr 2025 - Freeport scheme expands as two more announced 01 Apr 2025 - Hospital discharge funding ‘no silver bullet’ 01 Apr 2025 - Leisure centres at risk without energy cost support 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC not anticipating section 114 notices in 2023-24 01 Apr 2025 - Plan unveiled to move 3,000 NHS patients to care homes - as it's branded 'sticking plaster' 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Worst yet to come with average household £2,100 worse off, think tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Staffing ‘crisis’ means £200m extra care beds plan won’t work, health bosses warn 01 Apr 2025 - No plans for fiscal devolution, shadow chancellor says 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care winter statement ‘too late’ 01 Apr 2025 - Solace and LGA left out of PM’s NHS recovery forum 01 Apr 2025 - Short-term care placements receive £200m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of councils considering leisure services cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Third of England’s teachers who qualified in last decade ‘have left profession’ 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole repairs call 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian refugees living in hotels as councils deal with rising homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bill support for firms set to be cut 01 Apr 2025 - Care providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospita 01 Apr 2025 - NHS to buy care beds to make space in hospitals 01 Apr 2025 - Households set to be hit with average council tax bills of more than £2,000 01 Apr 2025 - Worst yet to come for families struggling with cost of living, think tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation has ‘decimated’ parts of unitary’s budget, leader says 01 Apr 2025 - Call for ‘fundamental rethink’ of funding to include five-year settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer makes devolution bill pledge 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC increases levelling up fund allocation to £2.1bn 01 Apr 2025 - ‘War effort’ needed to insulate homes and save on energy bills after Government ‘inaction’ in 2022 01 Apr 2025 - Children as young as five in England target of new careers programme 01 Apr 2025 - Michael Gove put in charge of clampdown on antisocial behaviour 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak’s strike law to let bosses sack workers and sue unions 01 Apr 2025 - How to sort out the crisis engulfing dementia care 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury officials among New Year honours awards 01 Apr 2025 - Deal reached on North East devolution package 01 Apr 2025 - Walking and cycling encouraged with cash injection 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bill help for firms expected to be halved 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer vows to let communities ‘take back control’ in Labour’s first term 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak makes five promises on economy, health and immigration in keynote speech 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak shelves ‘big bang’ childcare reforms 01 Apr 2025 - England’s £2 bus fare cap may not save rural routes, campaigners fear 01 Apr 2025 - Britain’s high streets are dying and nobody is doing anything about it

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01 Apr 2025 - Brown to ask Government to bypass referendum limit 01 Apr 2025 - Delay to CQC’s new assessment approach 01 Apr 2025 - Tetra Pak: Funding local authorities to make the switch and collect cartons at kerbside 01 Apr 2025 - Reserves grow to £31bn, resilience index reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Reserves under pressure as government confirms Pickles 2.0 01 Apr 2025 - Children in hostels with ex-prisoners up to 55 miles from school, Shelter warns 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers and social workers suffer most from ‘lost decade’ for pay growth in UK 01 Apr 2025 - District concern in wake of finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC confirms 9% increase in funding package for 2023-24 01 Apr 2025 - More than third of funding guarantee cash goes to south east 01 Apr 2025 - Second round of levelling-up funds delayed again 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury announces date of next Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Risk level of school buildings collapsing in England raised to ‘very likely’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government to extend help for business energy bills 01 Apr 2025 - £2 bus ticket rollout 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls to be given a new legal duty to make roads safer for women in the wake of Sarah Everard murder 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office pays out over child refugee hotel blunders 01 Apr 2025 - Local government spending plans indicate 11% rise, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - One in three shun ‘impossible’ maximum council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - UK interest rates raised to highest level for 14 years 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of crumbling schools to be renovated but critics says it won't make up for 'years of underfunding' 01 Apr 2025 - Finance policy statement ‘not a panacea for difficult time ahead’ 01 Apr 2025 - Fears as ministers eye rising council reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to streamline 'onerous' fund guidance 01 Apr 2025 - Leicestershire County Council to cut 250 jobs 01 Apr 2025 - Rachel de Souza: Councils should openly refer to ‘children’, ‘parents’ and ‘families’ 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates raised 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding cut for Ukrainian refugee scheme 01 Apr 2025 - A quarter of councils needed more time to pay council tax rebates 01 Apr 2025 - Joanna Killian: Cutting back-office staff raises risk of intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Districts push for council tax flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine host payments to increase 01 Apr 2025 - Carter: Reorganisation will boost fiscal devolution case 01 Apr 2025 - Price rises slow as petrol falls from record highs 01 Apr 2025 - Fears gritting services could be cut back in future years 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Underlying and existing pressures remain,’ sector warns 01 Apr 2025 - Delay to fair funding review and business rates reset 01 Apr 2025 - Second largest fall in real wage growth this year while unemployment rises 01 Apr 2025 - Delays to special needs help ‘acute concern’ – Ofsted 01 Apr 2025 - Government rejects calls to delay voter ID plans 01 Apr 2025 - SEND deficits kept off budgets for another three years 01 Apr 2025 - Finance policy statement: Revenue support grant to rise in-line with inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens of pubs saved by nearly £7m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Early years spending ‘seriously eroded’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers to hold emergency Cobra meeting amid wave of strikes 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy will get worse before it gets better, warns chancellor 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up Bill will make things worse, not better, says former housing minister 01 Apr 2025 - Betts criticises ‘problematic’ lack of council funding data 01 Apr 2025 - LGA urges ministers to delay plans for photo ID at May elections 01 Apr 2025 - NAO head: Thurrock scandal highlights audit delay dangers 01 Apr 2025 - Gritter driver shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Soaring inflation causes decline in value of LGPS funds 01 Apr 2025 - Former audit head lined up for new watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Disappointment after schools bill dropped 01 Apr 2025 - Local arts funding faces £2.4bn gap 01 Apr 2025 - Staffordshire councils agree to share services to save money 01 Apr 2025 - Suffolk and Norfolk offered devolution deals 01 Apr 2025 - Backlogs hinder recovery in local audit performance 01 Apr 2025 - Cornish second-home owners face double tax to tackle crisis 01 Apr 2025 - New UK disability claims double in past year, with fastest rise among teens – IFS 01 Apr 2025 - People urged to heat main rooms as cold snap begins 01 Apr 2025 - Flexible working to be offered from day one 01 Apr 2025 - Mandatory housebuilding targets dropped 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine 01 Apr 2025 - UK Shared Prosperity Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for ‘clarity’ on post-Brexit fund 01 Apr 2025 - New CIPFA group to look at streamlining accounts 01 Apr 2025 - New Somerset unitary strives to avoid capitalisation directive 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA trials four-day week 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC hunting for commissioners to save failing councils 01 Apr 2025 - Pay-off rules give more power to Section 151 officers 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall devolution deal unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock relied too heavily on hedging and investment income, say commissioners 01 Apr 2025 - A quarter of English councils abolish emergency help scheme amid cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - School leaders report rise in pupils not on free meals going hungry 01 Apr 2025 - Social-care insurance scheme needed, David Cameron says 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock Council reveals 'grave' £469m hole in its budget 01 Apr 2025 - County threatens districts with legal action 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog centralisation fears 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs reluctantly accept £1,925 pay increase 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Over 65% of bids to first round of levelling up fund failed 01 Apr 2025 - Gove reveals how many authorities filed investment zone bids 01 Apr 2025 - Council leader warns of cuts to close £22m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Gove reveals review of ‘unpopular’ council tax system 01 Apr 2025 - Over 65% of bids to first round of levelling up fund failed 01 Apr 2025 - Children's social care plan delayed 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor’s plans hit the most deprived councils hardest, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove consider watered-down planning bill amid Tory revolt 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up bill delayed after rebel Tories try to scrap housebuilding targets 01 Apr 2025 - Patrick Melia: Autumn statement did just enough to stave off disaster 01 Apr 2025 - Burnham: Land value tax is ‘the first step out’ of broken tax system 01 Apr 2025 - Referendum push for Cornwall mayoral plans 01 Apr 2025 - Disabled care home residents evicted 01 Apr 2025 - NHS care costs 'blunder' 01 Apr 2025 - Burnham: Land value tax is ‘the first step out’ of broken tax system 01 Apr 2025 - Grants to make homes energy efficient 01 Apr 2025 - House-building targets to be missed 01 Apr 2025 - Tackle the causes, not the symptoms, to stop section 114 notices 01 Apr 2025 - Tributes to ‘giant’ of local government thinking 01 Apr 2025 - Finance settlement not expected until late December 01 Apr 2025 - Housing: Tens of thousands of homes unsafe, Michael Gove says 01 Apr 2025 - Britain's least green city revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils “not out of the woods” after Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - County approves second home council tax premium 01 Apr 2025 - Sector braced for more s114 notices after third for Croydon 01 Apr 2025 - McCloud remedy delay continues to cause ‘significant uncertainty’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils owed over £9m from property damage 01 Apr 2025 - Better Leisure reduces opening hours as energy bills triple 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak faces MPs’ rebellion over local housebuilding targets 01 Apr 2025 - 'Shocking' report suggests stark rise in young people with mental health issues 01 Apr 2025 - Discharge fund roll out ‘too little, too late’, warns Adass 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set to receive £35m boost to transform derelict land 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates revaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Delayed discharges crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax increase in second homes 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care reform funding 01 Apr 2025 - Health Secretary defends delay to social care cap 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries at risk of cuts despite 'unprecedented' rise in users 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Real-terms cut will have a significant impact on services’, sector warns 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: OBR warns of ‘materially’ weaker public finances 01 Apr 2025 - It’s the census, stupid. Why ministers are focused on the wrong missing millions 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn statement: Omission of pay deals in Hunt’s speech does ‘nothing’ to change strikers’ minds 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cap is delayed for two years: Charities fear Government's flagship policy may now never happen after Jeremy Hunt's 'cruel' move 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt announces £2.3bn per year boost for state schools 01 Apr 2025 - Bigger council tax rises will not prevent more cuts to services, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn statement: CIPFA responds 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: a ‘better than expected’ outcome for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Boost for state schools 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cap delayed 01 Apr 2025 - It’s the census, stupid. Why ministers are focused on the wrong missing millions 01 Apr 2025 - OBR warns of ‘materially’ weaker public finances 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt tightens public finances amid inflation crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman preparing for ‘very difficult’ Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for UKSPF funding flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - Rural services 'may be lost' without funding formula 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis shows how worse off areas would miss out under mooted council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to scrap third round of Levelling up Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation grows to 11.1 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns of “existential crisis” facing services 01 Apr 2025 - Rising energy and food bills tip inflation to highest level since 1981 at 11.1% 01 Apr 2025 - Social care chief: Rishi Sunak has abandoned social care sector by delaying a key manifesto pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax would need to rise twenty percent to plug huge funding hole, Rishi Sunak told 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives: ‘It’s not been our finest hour’ 01 Apr 2025 - Adequate bus funding 'crucial for survival of network' 01 Apr 2025 - 'Left behind' areas risk losing out on levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - Directors warn needs of older and disabled people will not be met this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Which new laws have been held up or shelved? 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children in England waiting months for secure homes 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to raise minimum wage in boost for poorest 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax to soar to help fund social care 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of children seeking help from councils for mental health problems 01 Apr 2025 - Counties in bankruptcy warning 01 Apr 2025 - Joanne Pitt: Learning from previous austerity to reduce the pain to come 01 Apr 2025 - Up to one in three English hospital beds occupied by patients fit for discharge 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt will rely on council tax rises to pay social care bill 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement predictions: What we know so far about Jeremy Hunt’s plans, from tax rises to spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC minister roles confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries fear cuts despite new ‘warm space’ status 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn of service reductions or raids on reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs warn of impending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - RAC slams councils over pothole repair quality 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax referendum cap 01 Apr 2025 - Public spending cuts expected 01 Apr 2025 - Three out of five drivers believe local road conditions have worsened 01 Apr 2025 - Call for additional payments to Ukrainian refugees' host families 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Huge fear’ of children’s service cuts ahead of Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Recession looms as UK economy starts to shrink 01 Apr 2025 - Peers call for more grant funding to improve transport projects 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak kicks social care cap down the road 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak warned UK public services will need £43bn a year to ‘stand still’ 01 Apr 2025 - Worsening health of Britons is holding back UK economy, Andy Haldane warns 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health epidemic is shrinking UK workforce and fuelling staff shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Gove expected to stick with referendum threshold 01 Apr 2025 - Victims let down by ‘ineffective’ system to recover proceeds of crime – report 01 Apr 2025 - Record levels of benefit fraud after Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Migrant families sleeping on floor of Kent immigration centre for weeks, MPs report 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt: Households face threat of higher council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Cost-of-living crisis prompts scrapping of parking levy 01 Apr 2025 - UK Infrastructure Bank sees ‘great opportunity’ for LGPS investment 01 Apr 2025 - Payouts to pothole injury victims cost councils £32m in five years 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of schools face making 'catastrophic' staffing cuts to stay afloat 01 Apr 2025 - Plans for major shake-up of UK’s constituencies revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Welfare and pensions set to rise with inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Schools axe staff to balance books 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt eyes raid on pensions and council tax hikes to plug £60bn fiscal black hole 01 Apr 2025 - Grave budget warning from Devon County Council leader 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax bills could rise 01 Apr 2025 - Nurses set to strike 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement - £33bn of cuts planned 01 Apr 2025 - Junior minister given local government brief 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham told to make improvements or lose Send and education services 01 Apr 2025 - NHS figures reveal ‘strong link’ between obesity and deprivation 01 Apr 2025 - Council in talks over safety valve breach 01 Apr 2025 - FRC: ‘unacceptable’ number of local audits requiring significant improvement 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to push 'increasingly strong' economic case for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up think tank director joins Number Ten team 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for adult social care delay 01 Apr 2025 - Free school meals needs extending 01 Apr 2025 - Swimming pool closures possible 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole fund cut fears 01 Apr 2025 - One in 10 older people forced to stop social care 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession 01 Apr 2025 - Doctors back free school meal campaign 01 Apr 2025 - District warning over temporary accommodation shortage 01 Apr 2025 - One in 10 older people forced to stop social care 01 Apr 2025 - An increase in migrants from Romania has helped push the number of people in England and Wales born outside the UK to ten million — or one in six of the population — for the first time. Figures from 01 Apr 2025 - Ten million residents of England and Wales born outside the UK, 2021 census shows 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Not enough money’: secondary school heads warn MPs of budget woes 01 Apr 2025 - Council pay offer accepted by unions 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall Council warns of cuts to fill £62m hole 01 Apr 2025 - Devon council leader warns of ‘deep cuts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services budgets need £778m this year just to ‘stay still’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils win injunctions to stop Home Office placing asylum seekers in hotels 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector faces two per cent pay rise to balance the books 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement 2022 01 Apr 2025 - Councils take legal action over hotel use 01 Apr 2025 - MPs criticise centralised council funding system 01 Apr 2025 - £40bn of fiscal tightening needed, says think-tank 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rebate deadline extended 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury warns of tax rises to fill financial hole 01 Apr 2025 - England’s ‘patchwork’ of local governance needs ‘urgent overhaul’, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Gove ‘reviewing’ investment zones 01 Apr 2025 - 2 million public sector workers close to quitting over pay 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review Investment Zones 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to negotiate with public sector workers over pay 01 Apr 2025 - Councils reducing services to meet £3.2bn budget shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Worse than austerity’ – councils warn that any cuts to their budgets next year would mean they are only able to offer the bare minimum in local services 01 Apr 2025 - Lisa Nandy calls for inquiry into PM’s comments on funding formulas 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority reserves up despite cost-of-living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Betts: ‘lack of information on levelling up funding’ 01 Apr 2025 - Institutes call for time-limited extension to IFRS 9 override 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Sober’ decisions on spending cuts due 01 Apr 2025 - Housing benefit gap 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Alarm’ as counties’ projected budget pressure soars to £3.5bn 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak reconsiders tax rises as budget delay saves £15billion 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak demotes Truss allies as reshuffle continues 01 Apr 2025 - Council opens warm spaces for people struggling with energy bills 01 Apr 2025 - British baccalaureate among Sunak education policy reforms 01 Apr 2025 - England’s Covid catch-up tutoring often ‘haphazard and poor’, Ofsted finds 01 Apr 2025 - Gove returns to front bench as levelling up secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Public health cuts must be avoided, new PM told 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bill help for all is too expensive, warns the World Bank 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt could be asked to delay fiscal statement 01 Apr 2025 - Tory leaders to be clear with new PM on fragility of council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak reiterates commitment to levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Almost half of adults finding it difficult to afford their bills - with numbers rising 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss pledges ‘full support’ to Rishi Sunak as Tories put on show of unity around new prime minister 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to become UK prime minister 01 Apr 2025 - UK faces tougher austerity era - ex-Bank governor 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds more homeless families rehoused outside local area in England 01 Apr 2025 - River pollution: New phosphate rules hit thousands of planned new homes 01 Apr 2025 - UK faces tougher austerity era - ex-Bank chief 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Covid numbers peak at lower levels – but flu cases are on the up 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review Woking’s finances over borrowing risks 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to probe levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - Net migration set to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Feature: Impact of struggling social care on NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Fiscal statement ‘could be delayed’ by new PM vote 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to probe levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - School funding warning 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor mulling 50/50 split between tax rises and spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing rises 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: market turmoil ‘more opportunity than crisis’ for LGPS 01 Apr 2025 - Workforce the size of Newcastle needed to ease 'gridlocked' health and care system 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 1,000 Ukrainians made homeless as cost of living crisis hits host families 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: market turmoil ‘more opportunity than crisis’ for LGPS 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up at risk from disjointed funding systems, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss resigns as prime minister after Tory revolt 01 Apr 2025 - 'Out of date' council funding system threatens levelling up, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs call for percentage pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face ‘mandatory reporting’ of child sexual abuse 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: market volatility gives councils further headaches 01 Apr 2025 - Home Secretary resigns 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses face £3 billion rise in rates bill 01 Apr 2025 - Now Liz Truss comes for care homes with plot to delay cap on what frail residents pay 01 Apr 2025 - High street braced for £3bn rise in business rates bill 01 Apr 2025 - Local government pension payments could rise due to inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Counties welcome care reform delay reports 01 Apr 2025 - No ‘fat to trim’ from public services, report warns government 01 Apr 2025 - Clarke says levelling up projects could be cut back 01 Apr 2025 - Dilnot: Social care needs £6bn to fund reforms 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Very worrying’ – sector responds to Hunt’s announcements 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine host calls for clarity on future of scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation at 40-year high 01 Apr 2025 - Delay expected to social care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: ‘Hundreds’ of investment zone bids submitted 01 Apr 2025 - Blackouts may be imposed on cold weekday evenings, National Grid warns 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor reverses ‘almost all’ tax cuts in mini-budget and energy bills support to be scaled back 01 Apr 2025 - Spending settlement is 'no longer enough', says CIPFA 01 Apr 2025 - Intervention: ‘Councils can’t just bumble along the bottom any more’ 01 Apr 2025 - New chancellor’s spending cuts send ‘shiver down the spine of local government’ 01 Apr 2025 - North councils spend millions to get Levelling Up grants 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt: Every government department will be asked to make savings 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor to deliver parts of medium-term fiscal plan today 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rate increase 01 Apr 2025 - Delay expected for 1p cut to income tax 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor says government went 'too far, too fast' 01 Apr 2025 - U-turn on corporation tax 01 Apr 2025 - LGA encourages take up of Healthy Start Vouchers 01 Apr 2025 - Kwasi Kwarteng sacked and replaced by Jeremy Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: LGA to grow to become ‘united voice’ for all local government 01 Apr 2025 - Cost-of-living crisis putting ‘majority of levelling up missions at risk’ 01 Apr 2025 - Fiscal event U-turn 01 Apr 2025 - PAC: local audit delays ‘leave councils in the dark’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to cap renewable energy revenues 01 Apr 2025 - Social care workforce shrinks for first time in a decade 01 Apr 2025 - Tory mayor’s concern over unexpected public spending cuts and pace of devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Council warns £60m budget gap will widen – despite £33m savings plan 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of care ‘common theme’ in council complaints 01 Apr 2025 - Oxfordshire County Council warns of £50m budget shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for further tax u-turns following select committee evidence 01 Apr 2025 - Council workers quit sector amid cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Local government spending more with SMEs than Whitehall, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections could be rescheduled amid coronation date clash 01 Apr 2025 - Plan To Double Ukraine Refugee Support Payments To £700 Has Been Shelved 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss says she will 'absolutely' not cut public spending - as top Tory suggests chancellor should consider more U-turns 01 Apr 2025 - Recession risk rises as economy unexpectedly shrinks 01 Apr 2025 - No-fault eviction must go, says Michael Gove 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will be forced to cut vital public services without certainty over funding 01 Apr 2025 - One in five care workers living in poverty, report shows 01 Apr 2025 - Social care vacancies up by a record 52% 01 Apr 2025 - Council to make 'radical change' to budgeting 01 Apr 2025 - Sector split over finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Government could phase in investment zones 01 Apr 2025 - County offers £1,000 retention payment to care staff 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor faces trade-off on public sector pay 01 Apr 2025 - Big and painful cuts needed to fix budget, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Kwasi Kwarteng brings forward economic plan to 31 October 01 Apr 2025 - Local audit fees set to rise by 150% as Deloitte and BDO exit market 01 Apr 2025 - District wins injunction to prevent Home Office moving in asylum seekers 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up & regeneration bill could be ‘gutted’ 01 Apr 2025 - Warning that local government could boycott Whitehall funding pot competitions 01 Apr 2025 - Government plans hampered by ‘opaque and stealthy’ taxes 01 Apr 2025 - Fitch puts UK on ‘negative’ outlook after mini budget 01 Apr 2025 - Households could be handed £1,000 to approve fracking in their area 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness rises among Ukraine families in England 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords warn against plans to cap social housing rents 01 Apr 2025 - PM’s childcare plan 01 Apr 2025 - PM overrules on investment zones 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor’s public spending pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Council cost pressures warning 01 Apr 2025 - Economic advisor’s ideas to reduce spending 01 Apr 2025 - School meals industry ‘on its knees’ due to rising costs 01 Apr 2025 - The economy faces a perfect storm 01 Apr 2025 - County leaders urge government to postpone care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Child poverty campaigners fear '200,000 more kids will face poverty' if benefit payments don't go up in line with inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up secretary’s ‘planning reset’ could reopen Tory splits over housebuilding 01 Apr 2025 - Stretched councils want social care cap delay 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 60 councils at risk of ‘running out of money’ next year 01 Apr 2025 - Social care: 'Jo's care will cost £1.5k a week - the system is broken' 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s flagship investment zones will create ‘slums of the future’, planning experts claim 01 Apr 2025 - Council urges government to 'properly fund' adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - Social care: Delay cap on costs to ease crisis, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: 'Stealthy' tax and benefit freezes will outweigh tax cuts, say economists 01 Apr 2025 - Kwarteng: no time for new spending review this year 01 Apr 2025 - Truss promises to ‘level up the Conservative way’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government delays fair funding review 01 Apr 2025 - Kwasi Kwarteng's fiscal plan really will be published early 01 Apr 2025 - Audit costs will rise, authorities warned 01 Apr 2025 - Experts warn Kwarteng against ‘sugar rush’ growth 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over asylum dispersal scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Tory committee chair ‘very unhappy’ about ‘demotion’ of housing minister role 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Skills minister opposes further devolution of education budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Jack Shaw: Councils need more tax-raising powers if ministers insist on cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Further inflationary pressures threaten to ‘wipe £1bn off budgets’ 01 Apr 2025 - Formal trailblazer devolution deal talks have not begun 01 Apr 2025 - Covid inquiry begins 01 Apr 2025 - Millions to receive further cost-of-living payments 01 Apr 2025 - Risk of gas shortages this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Warning of £75m audit fee increase 01 Apr 2025 - Schools and hospitals ‘must find £11bn of cuts’ after Kwarteng spending freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Government to sit on OBR forecast for weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Government confirms U-turn on 45p tax rate 01 Apr 2025 - Ukraine refugee hosts in Hampshire to get extra £200 through winter 01 Apr 2025 - PM to push ahead with unlimited Investment Zones 01 Apr 2025 - Truss ally Simon Clarke prepares UK for new age of austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Investment zones ‘not a panacea that delivers everything’ 01 Apr 2025 - Crisis to lead to ‘Osbornomics, not Reaganomics’ 01 Apr 2025 - IMF and Moody’s sound warnings over tax cuts and borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - Sector told to ‘fear the worst’ and prepare for funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Health inequalities white paper scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns of ‘severe cuts’ to services amid rising cost pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Sector told to ‘fear the worst’ and prepare for funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - More than 40% of mortgages withdrawn as market reels after mini-budget 01 Apr 2025 - NHS staff quitting for private sector jobs as cost of living crisis intensifies, leaders warn 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of PWLB borrowing increases significantly in wake of Treasury turmoil 01 Apr 2025 - Cancelled spending review leaves councils with winter of ‘difficult decisions’ 01 Apr 2025 - English district councils warn support services for poorest face axe 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers told to make savings as Tory anger over markets chaos grows 01 Apr 2025 - Energy efficiency plan to help England's low-income homes 01 Apr 2025 - New DLUHC ministerial portfolios confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Widespread strikes avoided as Unison members accept pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Social care is becoming an emergency service,’ Labour conference warned 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: Mini budget leaves councils preparing for the worst 01 Apr 2025 - Labour moots devolution of more powers and share of income tax 01 Apr 2025 - Foster parent shortage ‘financially ruinous’ for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Labour promises free breakfasts at primary school 01 Apr 2025 - IMF urges UK government to reconsider tax-cutting plans 01 Apr 2025 - Dropping Spending Review could create ‘riptide that drowns UK economy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Almost two thirds of Send services expected to get deficit support 01 Apr 2025 - Nandy: local government deserves three year settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to axe this year’s spending review 01 Apr 2025 - Mini budget reaction: Concern over ‘hoops to jump through’ and ‘funding shortfalls’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government undecided on how to allocate social care discharge fund 01 Apr 2025 - Almost two thirds of Send services expected to get deficit support 01 Apr 2025 - Call to ‘impose devolution’ on areas with ‘unnecessary opposition’ 01 Apr 2025 - Action expected by the Bank of England 01 Apr 2025 - Pound steadies as markets expect Bank of England action to prop up UK currency 01 Apr 2025 - Kwarteng warned ‘shock’ IR35 changes risk loss of revenue 01 Apr 2025 - A guiding light through uncertainty 01 Apr 2025 - We are entering unchartered territory 01 Apr 2025 - Councils resort to service cuts in budget struggle 01 Apr 2025 - Alarm sounded over future elections 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges 'biggest wave of insourcing for a generation' 01 Apr 2025 - 'Deteriorating' officer-member relationships highlighted 01 Apr 2025 - Counties call for more devolution progress 01 Apr 2025 - Kwarteng warned ‘shock’ IR35 changes risk loss of revenue 01 Apr 2025 - Pre-recorded evidence rolled out in courts in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Pay pain for workers as public sector squeezed 01 Apr 2025 - Coffey: £500m discharge fund is social care ‘down payment’ 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh Treasury promise to ‘streamline’ local growth funds 01 Apr 2025 - Mini-Budget: IR35 scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Mini-Budget: Chancellor to accelerate infrastructure schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Mini-Budget: Chancellor drops social care levy 01 Apr 2025 - Mini-Budget: Government in 'early discussions' on Investment Zones 01 Apr 2025 - Mini-Budget: Kwarteng's plans to boost economic growth 01 Apr 2025 - £500 million for hospital discharges 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for promised £13 billion for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Kwasi Kwarteng to shrink part-time work benefits to grow labour supply 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up bill timetable extended amid rumours over future 01 Apr 2025 - In year overspends and the ‘battle to balance budgets’ 01 Apr 2025 - Real Living Wage rises by 10 per cent to £10.90 an hour 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor to shrink part time worker benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funds to be merged 01 Apr 2025 - New health strategy to be announced 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing to be ‘£60bn higher than March’s OBR forecast after mini-budget’ 01 Apr 2025 - Serious reform is needed at HMT, not new people 01 Apr 2025 - Council bailout hopes blow 01 Apr 2025 - Energy support for councils 'too little, too late' 01 Apr 2025 - Clarke names housing minister as more DLUHC appointments unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Cost-of-living crisis could add £3.7bn to cost of social care, counties warn 01 Apr 2025 - Cost-of-living crisis to have ‘catastrophic’ impact 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax on Yorkshire second homes to double 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector organisations to be supported through energy crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Wales may impose ‘visitor levy’ on overnight guests 01 Apr 2025 - Firms in four-day week trial will make it permanent 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 90,000 more people died at home from non-Covid causes in pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury will not publish UK economic forecast 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care in England is in crisis, say council leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Bring back eviction ban or face ‘catastrophic’ homelessness crisis, ministers told 01 Apr 2025 - Low council homecare fees causing workforce ‘exodus’ 01 Apr 2025 - UKSPF review call resisted 01 Apr 2025 - Districts lobby DLUHC over TIF 01 Apr 2025 - Councils weigh up cost of Christmas events amid soaring bills 01 Apr 2025 - County looks at service cuts over ‘frightening’ budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Over 50% of low-paid workers turn to foodbanks 01 Apr 2025 - Schools urge parents to help plug funding gaps 01 Apr 2025 - Will Liz Truss’s economic plans make us richer? 01 Apr 2025 - Nation pays final farewell to Her Majesty The Queen 01 Apr 2025 - Kwasi Kwarteng to deliver emergency mini-budget on 23 September 01 Apr 2025 - Maintained schools reluctant to academise despite 2030 target 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Scale of Thurrock’s borrowing from other councils 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation surge forces councils to cut levelling up projects 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation falls to 9.9 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘fiscal event’ to be held this month 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to decide on infrastructure levy spending 01 Apr 2025 - 'Fierce resistance' to threatened strike clampdown 01 Apr 2025 - Sector responds to the return of Simon Clarke 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss commits to support public sector organisations with energy costs 01 Apr 2025 - Call for inflation support from Truss 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution deal ‘penalises’ Leicestershire 01 Apr 2025 - Warning about reducing council pension fund contribution rates 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face ‘battle to balance budgets’ 01 Apr 2025 - Disabilities charity calls for ‘immediate increase’ in benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Council sets up cost-of-living crisis fund 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss commits to support public sector organisations with energy costs 01 Apr 2025 - New junior minister joins levelling up department 01 Apr 2025 - Government floats traffic light ratings for sector 01 Apr 2025 - Britain’s plan for when Queen Elizabeth II dies 01 Apr 2025 - Queen Elizabeth II has died 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss set to unveil plans to limit energy bill rises 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss energy bills cap will fail to protect poorest, say thinktanks 01 Apr 2025 - Robert Jenrick back in government as Liz Truss picks junior ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Criminals exploiting cost of living crisis with energy rebate scam emails 01 Apr 2025 - Thérèse Coffey considers paying care homes in England to free hospital beds 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up fund could be oversubscribed by billions 01 Apr 2025 - 400,000 homes vulnerable to uncapped energy prices 01 Apr 2025 - Shropshire Council facing £18.8m overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire council warns of job cuts due to £17.7m overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of plague of potholes and salt shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities urged to bid for new life-changing disabled facilities 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC agrees £1.14bn East Midlands devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Tory leader criticises ‘disappointing’ response from government over inflation concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Councils offered £6,000 to house asylum-seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - New cabinet: Who is in Liz Truss's top team? 01 Apr 2025 - Truss government must focus on local authority resourcing 01 Apr 2025 - Simon Clarke confirmed as levelling up secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Rural businesses to receive £110m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Graeme McDonald: New PM should make investing in local government a priority 01 Apr 2025 - England bus fares to see £2 cap for three months 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 100,000 'ghost children' have stopped going to school 01 Apr 2025 - Complaints about special needs schooling increase 01 Apr 2025 - Gove ‘plotted to waste £1.5bn’ in unspent taxpayer cash 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up fund allocated South East twice as much as North East 01 Apr 2025 - Road maintenance costs 01 Apr 2025 - More ‘banking hubs’ to open across UK to tackle branch and ATM closures 01 Apr 2025 - Minister for refugees resigns 01 Apr 2025 - Energy firms to bring down bills using state loans 01 Apr 2025 - Liz Truss vows energy crisis action ahead of first day as PM 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £2bn rough sleeping strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Essex to manage finances of Thurrock Council 01 Apr 2025 - Recruitment challenges and air industry pressures add to Luton’s risk 01 Apr 2025 - Green belt under threat as more protected countryside is offered for development 01 Apr 2025 - After-school provision costs £800 more than in 2010, Labour says 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury preparing emergency cost of living options for next prime minister 01 Apr 2025 - Soaring costs could strip ‘basic dignity’ from millions in UK 01 Apr 2025 - Zahawi plans Covid-style tax breaks for firms facing ruin 01 Apr 2025 - Energy industry backs plan to save businesses and homes up to £18bn a year 01 Apr 2025 - Next PM ‘must be more intelligent about social care after years of neglect’ 01 Apr 2025 - Joining up care: place, partners and prevention 01 Apr 2025 - Experts warn of ‘humanitarian crisis’ for children stuck in cold homes 01 Apr 2025 - 'Warm banks' set up as thousands face 'heat or eat' dilemma this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of fixing potholes soars since invasion of Ukraine 01 Apr 2025 - Rising costs threaten levelling up schemes in England, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Government looking at rent rise cap for social housing tenants during cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Police charge trio of former council chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - Nine councils set to benefit from £20m EV charge point pilot 01 Apr 2025 - MPs ask whether OBR is ready for ‘emergency Budget’ 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills to soar for millions as price cap hiked to £3,549 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Desperate’ UK councils hiring out more parks to festivals, warns expert 01 Apr 2025 - Halving time asylum seeker children held in UK hotels not enough, say charities 01 Apr 2025 - Nine councils set to benefit from £20m EV charge point pilot 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC warned Levelling Up Bill lacks detail for effective scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - 6m disabled people in UK to get £150 cost of living payment in September 01 Apr 2025 - Next PM could face £23bn autumn spend to cover £900 rise in energy bills 01 Apr 2025 - Truss vows to send billions from NHS to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Half of care workers in England earn less than entry level supermarket roles 01 Apr 2025 - Three million households waiting for £150 energy rebate 01 Apr 2025 - UK welcome for Ukrainian refugees turns sour as hosts start to run out of patience 01 Apr 2025 - GMB to ballot members over pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Money for Ukraine refugee hosts ‘should be doubled’ 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for England’s parks down £330m a year in real terms since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Authority loses £1.1m to ‘organised and sophisticated crime group’ 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool set for finance commissioner to tackle ‘serious shortcomings’ 01 Apr 2025 - Follow the ‘Nottingham model’ of public transport funding 01 Apr 2025 - One million people told to claim £150 grant 'ASAP' as deadline is weeks away 01 Apr 2025 - GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Most councils employing private police forces pay them per fine 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for tougher punishments for fly tippers 01 Apr 2025 - Tax cut promises ‘hard to square’ without service cuts amid deteriorating public finances 01 Apr 2025 - Treasurer societies favour permanent extension to IFRS 9 statutory override 01 Apr 2025 - Oflog bandwagon rolls 01 Apr 2025 - Stephen Houghton: Sunak’s comments expose the political vulnerability of council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Social care winter pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Government provides extra £130 million for endangered bus routes in England 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine payment delays 01 Apr 2025 - Staffing crisis leaves many English care home residents’ basic needs unmet 01 Apr 2025 - Overseas hiring spree to bail out care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Retail sales recover slightly in July with 0.3% rise but long-term decline persists 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing rises higher than expected to £55bn 01 Apr 2025 - NAO keeping 'watching brief' on revisiting financial sustainability 01 Apr 2025 - Stephen Houghton: Sunak’s comments expose the political vulnerability of council funding 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Household support package needs £12bn boost to keep up with inflation 01 Apr 2025 - The public sector needs to help meet the rising cost of construction 01 Apr 2025 - Leeds announces £121m levelling up funding bids 01 Apr 2025 - Millions of public sector workers preparing to vote on strikes in what could be biggest wave of industrial action since 1970s 01 Apr 2025 - Pay disputes 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation passes 10 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Household support package needs £12bn boost to keep up with inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Bus funding cuts set to ‘decimate’ northern network 01 Apr 2025 - ONS: Public sector pay 'lags behind' private sector 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation could be worse than austerity for councils, Paul Johnson warns 01 Apr 2025 - UK wages hit by soaring inflation 01 Apr 2025 - No improvement in school attainment gap in England for 20 years, report says 01 Apr 2025 - UK treatment of Afghan refugees ‘continues to be source of shame’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs blast Government over ‘sugar levy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Doubling in homeless Ukrainian refugees in just six weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing within the prudential code must be for public benefit 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation set to wipe out 40% of public spending growth 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for increase to Household Support Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Government rejects PAC committee recommendation on levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Overwhelmed’ food banks unable to cope with unprecedented demand 01 Apr 2025 - Additional £12 billion required to maintain cost of living support 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Local government treated worse than any other part of public sector’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government consults on social care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Changes to rules on capital receipts raise wider questions 01 Apr 2025 - Schools consider three-day week amid rising energy bills and teacher pay 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation launched on local authority investment regulations 01 Apr 2025 - Fraud body launched with £180m first-year target 01 Apr 2025 - The impact of rising construction costs 01 Apr 2025 - Keir Starmer calls for extra tax on oil and gas producers 01 Apr 2025 - Grant Shapps: Introduce a £2 bus fare cap to ease cost of living burden 01 Apr 2025 - Nursery closures: Parents left without childcare as providers shut 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks as outlook on recession darkens 01 Apr 2025 - Swimming pools: Concern as closures across the UK revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing within the prudential code must be for public benefit 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills to pass £4,000 a year 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation to add pressures onto public spending, IFS report says 01 Apr 2025 - Council eyes office savings after rise of flexible working 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems call for £36bn ‘energy furlough’ scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Public services need another £44bn by 2025 to cope with inflation, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - County with £60m funding gap hit by £5m costs surge 01 Apr 2025 - Government launches consultation into social care charging reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Councils left 'in the dark' on funding 01 Apr 2025 - Proposal mooted for Durham to join Tees Valley CA 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution deals sign off put back to ‘end of the year’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care waiting lists set to ‘double’ by November, ADASS warns 01 Apr 2025 - Back to the dark days 01 Apr 2025 - Draft accounts: delays continue despite deadline dash 01 Apr 2025 - Truss pledges to allocate £13bn to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak boasts of his funding formula changes against ‘deprived urban areas’ 01 Apr 2025 - County eyes service cuts to fund fair cost of care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Poll reveals majority support full funding for local government 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of lead members call for delay to social care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - UK to fall into recession 01 Apr 2025 - Social care delays rise 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn government of social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - More than half of government departments delay key decisions 01 Apr 2025 - Care home fees increase 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine refugees face homelessness when six-month stays end 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords running scared of regulation fuel record-high tax take 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Ravaged’ social care sector needs more money before year is out – MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Council beach hut sales halted after government intervention 01 Apr 2025 - School funding ‘problematic’ next year 01 Apr 2025 - Council beach hut sales halted after government intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces Yorkshire mayoral deal 01 Apr 2025 - Help house 10,000 Afghan refugees, minister tells councils 01 Apr 2025 - Flexible Use of Capital Receipts Rules Tightened 01 Apr 2025 - Councils attack Right to Buy expansion plans 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England face funding crisis as costs soar, study warns 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers were unwilling to agree above cap council tax rise for Slough 01 Apr 2025 - Community Renewal Fund recipients get extra time after delays 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face record £2.4bn deficits in SEN this year 01 Apr 2025 - Leora Cruddas: Councils should not set up multi-academy trusts 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rebates now issued to 80% of eligible households 01 Apr 2025 - Pay ‘crucial’ to social care workforce reforms 01 Apr 2025 - More than 100 projects secure money from Safer Streets Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Pay offer ‘not enough’ to make up for decade of ‘lost wages’ say unions 01 Apr 2025 - Reserves drop by £8bn as councils brace for service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Kent calls for urgent response to Dover chaos 01 Apr 2025 - Oxfordshire becomes latest trailblazer for social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Truss tax cuts ‘likely to break fiscal rules’ 01 Apr 2025 - Private care home profit margins increase over pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Review into role of civil service 01 Apr 2025 - More than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees arrive in UK 01 Apr 2025 - Nine in 10 schools in England in need of repair 01 Apr 2025 - York and North Yorkshire to get mayor under £540m devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to act as nine in 10 schools in England in need of repair 01 Apr 2025 - Pay award and overspend to exhaust council’s set-aside reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Details of £400 energy payment to households revealed 01 Apr 2025 - (From SCT Survey) Local authorities warn the government’s special educational needs reforms will not address councils’ £2.4bn deficit 01 Apr 2025 - (From SCT Survey) ‘Funding black hole’: councils grapple with ‘catastrophic’ debt for SEN children 01 Apr 2025 - Council prevents £500,000 of cyber fraud 01 Apr 2025 - Public spending in the north falls behind rest of England despite government's Levelling Up agenda 01 Apr 2025 - Cotswold District Council members face 'unacceptable' abuse 01 Apr 2025 - Social care facing 'greatest workforce crisis in history' 01 Apr 2025 - Labour Would Scrap Business Rates 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spending £9bn a year more on local suppliers, research finds 01 Apr 2025 - Overheating roads 'a challenge for councils' 01 Apr 2025 - Sandwell refuse workers secure 9% pay rise to avoid strike action 01 Apr 2025 - Successful delivery of planning reform and electoral integrity ‘appears unachievable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Truss and Sunak promise councillors more funding for adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - Michael Hudson: ‘meaningless detail’ in audits causing delays 01 Apr 2025 - Families cut back on fuel and clothes as prices rise 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living package does not go far enough, say charities 01 Apr 2025 - 50 children are waiting for secure homes every day 01 Apr 2025 - Filled posts in adult social care are down for the first time 01 Apr 2025 - Exit payments plummet 01 Apr 2025 - New Somerset chief faces £44m deficit 01 Apr 2025 - NHS pay rise could leave ‘£1.8bn shortfall’ in service budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Employers warn against local pay deals 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation threatens levelling up schemes, Tory council leader warns DLUHC 01 Apr 2025 - Shaun Davies: ‘We are going to have to pay staff more’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay: Police and most NHS staff get below-inflation rises 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation hits 40 year high 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector strike action threatened over pay deals 01 Apr 2025 - Fire and Rescue Services declare major incident as temperatures reach over 40 degrees for first time 01 Apr 2025 - Ukraine refugee homelessness concerns 01 Apr 2025 - IMF: Cutting taxes now ‘would be a mistake’ 01 Apr 2025 - Early intervention cuts trigger crisis interventions 01 Apr 2025 - Only a quarter of local authorities have enough holiday childcare this summer 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in care providers leaving market heightens fears for winter 01 Apr 2025 - Poorest areas made biggest cuts to early interventions for children 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay: Millions of workers await deal decision 01 Apr 2025 - Social care at the ‘centre of the storm’ of inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Foodbank use goes up 01 Apr 2025 - Newly appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up opens up second round of funding 01 Apr 2025 - Warning about financial reporting ‘crisis in timeliness’ 01 Apr 2025 - Where do devo deals stand after the turmoil in Westminster? 01 Apr 2025 - Household support fund access issues 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax levy could replace TV licence fee in future funding model 01 Apr 2025 - Homes crisis ‘worsened by environmental red tape’ 01 Apr 2025 - Mary Bousted: Councils setting up academy trusts run a huge risk 01 Apr 2025 - Pocklington tells councils to take ‘sensible’ approaches to budget gaps 01 Apr 2025 - NHS Confederation blames social care workforce shortages for crisis in hospitals 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly rural areas adding pressure to social care services 01 Apr 2025 - Cipfa president fears uncertainty will ‘pull focus’ from delivering services 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire’s leader and CFO call for funding reforms amid concerns over budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Newcastle restructure sees departure of resources director 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA conference: s151s call for statutory deadlines for local audit 01 Apr 2025 - Pocklington: we will work with councils to ‘simplify funding landscape’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living crisis widens Britain’s north-south divide by 30% 01 Apr 2025 - Special educational needs provision 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows more than expected in May 01 Apr 2025 - City council agrees debt restructure for local attraction 01 Apr 2025 - No plans to make academisation mandatory amid mounting concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax revaluation announced for Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Next round of School Rebuilding Programme announced 01 Apr 2025 - Retail sales fall 01 Apr 2025 - Child poverty falls nationally 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 restrictions could be reintroduced if rise in cases hits NHS backlog, minister warns 01 Apr 2025 - UK weather: Gritters are being taken out of hibernation to save the nation's melting roads 01 Apr 2025 - ADCS conference: Whitehall examining private sector ‘profiteering’ 01 Apr 2025 - ADCS conference: Abuse hampering recruitment of children's service directors 01 Apr 2025 - Metro mayor calls for 'unwavering support' for levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - More Funding to Bid For: Brownfield development fund 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS funds 'optimistic' about funding levels post valuation 01 Apr 2025 - Chief executive pay: Tough times and wage stagnation 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC Lords minister quits following PM’s resignation 01 Apr 2025 - Bus fares to cost no more than £2 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: one in 10 in England told to work despite signs of infection 01 Apr 2025 - Public support for Ukrainian refugees already waning in UK, poll shows 01 Apr 2025 - Minister delays self-funding care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Former local government minister among new DLUHC ministers 01 Apr 2025 - New levelling up secretary is a ‘friend to local government’ senior Tories say 01 Apr 2025 - Education of children in care in England held back by ‘system failings’ 01 Apr 2025 - North-South self-funding split revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: The councils under fire from DLUHC over investments 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up bill’s future uncertain after ministerial resignations 01 Apr 2025 - Concern ministerial resignations will cause delays for local government 01 Apr 2025 - PM promises to let Ukrainian refugees switch schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Unions granted permission for pension judicial review 01 Apr 2025 - Alison Ring: don’t waste the huge effort you put into annual accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Case study: Warwickshire County Council’s economic regeneration 01 Apr 2025 - Zahawi chancellor after Sunak resignation 01 Apr 2025 - Clark named levelling up secretary ahead of Johnson resignation 01 Apr 2025 - UK debt on ‘unsustainable path’ 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister resigns 01 Apr 2025 - Hospital pledge faces watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Bus route cuts 01 Apr 2025 - NHS shake-up underway as 42 integrated care systems launch around the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Councils told to budget more for pay 01 Apr 2025 - Minister tells councils to ‘prioritise when delivering core services' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils struggling to meet shared prosperity fund deadline 01 Apr 2025 - LGA Conference: Sector should consider offering four-day week 01 Apr 2025 - Staffing crisis causing ‘irreparable damage’ to care sector 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up fund deadline postponed 01 Apr 2025 - 7 in 10 councillors have experienced abuse and intimidation in the last year – LGA survey 01 Apr 2025 - Jamieson calls for local government funding ‘triple-lock’ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove announces multi-year funding and new Office for Local Government 01 Apr 2025 - Gove warns against ‘false hope’ of extra funding 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to ask Homes for Ukraine hosts to extend arrangement 01 Apr 2025 - Census indicates lower than expected London population 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in children seeking special educational needs support 01 Apr 2025 - Labour accuses Gove of acting like ‘Grant Shapps tribute act’ by ignoring looming storm for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Number of holiday-let homes in England up 40% in three years 01 Apr 2025 - Wales launches basic income pilot for care leavers 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation and living wage to add ‘billions’ to council budget pressures 01 Apr 2025 - City council given fortnight to respond to government over proposed intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Cost pressures set to rise to £3.6bn next year, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - Councils forced to ‘rip up financial plans’ as inflation bites – LGA analysis 01 Apr 2025 - Warnings of mental health crisis among ‘Covid generation’ of students 01 Apr 2025 - Serious incidents more common in for-profit children’s homes in England 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorkshire unitary to inherit ‘frightening’ deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Three in four councils lack capacity to deliver ‘underfunded’ care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Javid announces £150m for mental health crisis support 01 Apr 2025 - Not enough money for adult social care reforms, say 98 per cent of councils in LGA survey 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up to cost billions more than government thinks, says think tank 01 Apr 2025 - DfE evaluation of children’s care projects an ‘example for other public bodies to follow’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Tax gap’ estimated at £32bn in 2020-21 01 Apr 2025 - Households could be paid to use less electricity to avoid blackout risk 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up plans to cost more than expected 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of adult social care reform underfunding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Tax gap’ estimated at £32bn in 2020-21 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Unsustainable’ Send services ‘cannot continue’ as finance probe begins 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation pushes up UK interest payments 01 Apr 2025 - MRP U-turn welcomed but ‘unintended consequences remain’ 01 Apr 2025 - MRP on capital loans: a step in the right direction 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Real concerns’ as Ukraine scheme extends to unaccompanied children 01 Apr 2025 - Council closes four care homes due to ‘market conditions’ 01 Apr 2025 - County council’s finances face ‘unprecedented level’ of uncertainty 01 Apr 2025 - Council to save £600,000 a year with new solar farm 01 Apr 2025 - By-election results 01 Apr 2025 - No extra money for pay rises – Treasury 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation pushes up UK interest payments 01 Apr 2025 - Interview: the road ahead for the UK Infrastructure Bank 01 Apr 2025 - County offers lowest paid staff 7.85% rise 01 Apr 2025 - Minister tells councils not to depend on fine income 01 Apr 2025 - Unions warn of teacher shortages without new pay deal 01 Apr 2025 - English schools warn of acute teacher shortages without ‘inflation plus’ pay deal 01 Apr 2025 - Auditing the auditors 01 Apr 2025 - Social outcomes contracts save £3 for every £1 spent 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation hits 9.1% as prices rise at fastest rate for 40 years 01 Apr 2025 - London councils call for funding increase amid ‘eye-watering’ inflation 01 Apr 2025 - National living wage boost threatens council finances – LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Burnham: End Whitehall ‘bidding culture’ to empower councils 01 Apr 2025 - Top tiers face at least £1.6bn additional costs amid soaring inflation 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Serious failings’ left children exposed to abuse in Oldham, finds damning review 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers’ strike 2022: Concern schools may be forced to shut as supply staff could be among walk-out workers 01 Apr 2025 - Study finds public health cuts associated with worse health 01 Apr 2025 - Schools and libraries face huge cuts after £1.7bn shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers told to boost school meal funding as children ‘getting smaller portions’ 01 Apr 2025 - County council cuts nearly £700,000 of social care grants 01 Apr 2025 - What if we banned all second homes? 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer: Levelling up agenda ‘destined to fail’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in pension age has led to surge in poverty 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts left the social care system in crisis even before Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Delays to £350 ‘thank you’ for hosts of Ukrainian refugees, charity says 01 Apr 2025 - We need to talk about internal audit 01 Apr 2025 - County council cuts nearly £700,000 of social care grants 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts left the social care system in crisis even before COVID 01 Apr 2025 - Nine in ten staff are still working from home at some councils as data shows many buildings are only a quarter full 01 Apr 2025 - Fears that members are ‘opting out of LGPS over cost-of-living crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - Record number waiting for routine treatments 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates raised 01 Apr 2025 - Renters reform white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian new arrivals presenting as homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: County devo talks descend into ‘dog’s breakfast’ 01 Apr 2025 - Another bid-based funding pot - £7.8m for tree planting 01 Apr 2025 - Plans to create fairer private rental sector in England take a step forward 01 Apr 2025 - Former Chancellor warns of recession 01 Apr 2025 - Counties face winter of ‘difficult decisions’ amid soaring inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Council to reprofile regeneration project amid surging costs 01 Apr 2025 - Demand for second homes fall 01 Apr 2025 - Care home owners paid 13 times more than carers 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands catching Covid in hospital amid new wave warning 01 Apr 2025 - Government has not done ‘full’ impact assessment of Right to Buy extension, Michael Gove admits 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks as higher prices bite 01 Apr 2025 - Some areas ‘likely to lose out on levelling up funding’ 01 Apr 2025 - Second home vote 01 Apr 2025 - Tax cuts 'dispute' 01 Apr 2025 - Move to minimise impact of strikes 01 Apr 2025 - Some areas ‘likely to lose out on levelling up funding’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils sound warning over right-to-buy extension 01 Apr 2025 - Government denies wasting £11bn on debt servicing costs 01 Apr 2025 - 'Perfect storm' warning over supply chain pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy extended to housing association tenants 01 Apr 2025 - Council ‘bitterly disappointed’ by oil drilling decision 01 Apr 2025 - County ‘lost its way over a number of years’, says review 01 Apr 2025 - Call for ‘substantial’ pay rise for chiefs amid ‘dangerous workloads’ 01 Apr 2025 - Nandy claims fair funding pledge to Tory MP is ‘awfully dodgy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Another ‘unsatisfactory’ report card for DLUHC seems unlikely to spark improvement 01 Apr 2025 - Government expects further delay to school funding reforms 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Watch this space’ for another section 114 notice, warns council finance director 01 Apr 2025 - MPs criticise ‘lack of transparency’ of levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - UK set for highest inflation among G7 until 2024, say economists 01 Apr 2025 - Delay to application process for levelling up fund 01 Apr 2025 - Concern over levelling up bill’s potential power grab from districts 01 Apr 2025 - Unions demand ‘inflation-busting’ local government pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Government should not ignore senior public sector staff pay 01 Apr 2025 - Government to bailout more councils over SEND 01 Apr 2025 - MP backs Johnson after fair funding promise 01 Apr 2025 - New unitary begins search for a chief 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy policy to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care to face biggest shake-up of leadership in decades 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up fund rules allow ministers to hand billions to favoured areas, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak says windfall tax may be extended to electricity giants 01 Apr 2025 - Fines for parents rise as schools try to reach absent kids 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax support ‘postcode lottery’ prompts reform call 01 Apr 2025 - New regulator to bring ‘greater transparency’ to council finances announced 01 Apr 2025 - Unions call for ‘substantial’ pay rises to reflect soaring inflation 01 Apr 2025 - Food bank concerns without free school meal extension 01 Apr 2025 - One in seven own a second property at age 70 01 Apr 2025 - Teaching unions calls for greater numbers to be included in free school meal schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils offered new powers to fine for traffic breaches 01 Apr 2025 - Affluent areas to lose out in care funding reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Finance figures reveal levelling up gap 01 Apr 2025 - Sage: Hospital discharges not main driver of Covid care home outbreaks 01 Apr 2025 - Downing Street ‘open’ to lifting ban on new grammar schools 01 Apr 2025 - Half of UK’s biggest children’s homes owned offshore 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of UK workers begin world’s biggest trial of four-day week 01 Apr 2025 - Civil service cuts will leave Whitehall unable to cope with Brexit workload 01 Apr 2025 - City’s financial outlook ‘extremely challenging’ amid funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Council agrees last-minute contract extension 01 Apr 2025 - Savings key for council to improve financial stability 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson fails to level up Britain as London leaves Red Wall behind 01 Apr 2025 - New driving laws introduced will see motorists hit with fines 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 500,000 UK small businesses ‘at risk of going bust within weeks’ 01 Apr 2025 - One in seven own a second property at age 70 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian refugees are now living in the UK - so how is it going? 01 Apr 2025 - Now public swimming pools face closure because it’s too expensive to heat the water 01 Apr 2025 - Offshore firms own children’s homes 01 Apr 2025 - Slough urged to sell most of its properties 01 Apr 2025 - Government questioned on ‘complex’ levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor raises household support fund by £500m 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £15bn cost of living package 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for levelling up funding ‘transparency’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government to let councils terminate Russian contracts 01 Apr 2025 - IFRS 9 override ‘should be extended or made permanent’ 01 Apr 2025 - Equal pay challenge warning 01 Apr 2025 - Slough told to sell £600m of assets, leaving its HQ’s future in doubt 01 Apr 2025 - Review calls for creation of local child protection units 01 Apr 2025 - Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Family concerns disregarded - report 01 Apr 2025 - More children to receive tutoring 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living measures 01 Apr 2025 - Review calls for child protection overhaul in England after two deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Case studies: How inflation is wreaking havoc on budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care reforms could cost nearly £26bn 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax loophole costs councils £150m a year 01 Apr 2025 - District declares a 'cost of living emergency' 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Broken’ children’s care market needs ‘whole system reset’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Government plan to help households could come within days 01 Apr 2025 - Northumberland issues s114 over unlawful finances 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers resist calls for further care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Police brace for unrest over cost-of-living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - LCTS administration subsidy grant 2022 to 2023 announced 01 Apr 2025 - Andy Burnham to ask for ‘rail station devolution’ in trailblazer deal 01 Apr 2025 - County council chiefs welcome fire service white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rebate discretionary fund is ‘nowhere near enough to meet need’ 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson among 30 people warned of criticism in Sue Gray lockdown parties report 01 Apr 2025 - Eight places given city status to mark Platinum Jubilee 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £300m fund to tackle youth crime 01 Apr 2025 - Andy Street: private sector is the ‘real determinant’ of levelling up’s success 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s home providers accused of ‘unacceptable’ profiteering 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of protecting vulnerable children has risen by a quarter 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria, Somerset and North Yorkshire councils: direction 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Former Tory leader calls for benefits increase 'to help poorest cope' 01 Apr 2025 - Public building upgrades to save taxpayers £650 million per year 01 Apr 2025 - Government to spend £600m to suppress benefit fraud 01 Apr 2025 - Child protection: Without change thousands more kids face care - review 01 Apr 2025 - Record 420,000 children a month in England treated for mental health problems 01 Apr 2025 - High maintenance costs and rise of flexible working see two councils eye shared office 01 Apr 2025 - Borough backs ‘prudent’ debt amid government concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Scotland must find £760m annually to fund benefit shakeup 01 Apr 2025 - Government 'risks battle' on moving districts' functions without consent 01 Apr 2025 - More than 42m UK adults ‘will be overweight by 2040’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government failed health staff in pandemic - BMA 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to bring benefit and pension rises forward 01 Apr 2025 - Government to place financial restrictions on 17 authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation hits 9 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Inconsistent and unfair’ DfE funding for pupils from Ukraine, council warns 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax premium unlikely to tackle issues caused by second homes, leaders say 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB loans to be denied to councils at risk of non-repayment 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers announce £200m for new active travel schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Bank governor in 'apocalyptic' warning over rising food prices 01 Apr 2025 - Private children’s home providers criticised over huge profits 01 Apr 2025 - Wages fall sharply but unemployment rate drops 01 Apr 2025 - Second home owners face more pain as MPs insist that crackdown doesn’t go far enough 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Conservative MP says people could 'incentivise granny annexes' to save money 01 Apr 2025 - Help must come, says former PM John Major on cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Private children’s home bosses in England criticised over huge profits 01 Apr 2025 - Warning poorest households are struggling to get £150 energy rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Wages hit by rising prices but unemployment rate falls 01 Apr 2025 - Government restricts councils' special severance payments 01 Apr 2025 - Energy price cap could rise every three months under regulator’s planned shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak set to unveil fiscal measures to help with cost of living crisis before summer recess 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s £500m support scheme failing Britain’s poorest households 01 Apr 2025 - Proposed intervention powers mark ‘shift towards prevention’ 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up Bill proposes ministerial intervention powers 01 Apr 2025 - Council borrowing remains depressed amid rising rates 01 Apr 2025 - To Michael Gove: a modest proposal 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire set to establish a new levelling up fund to kick-start projects 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up Bill to ‘empower local people’ published 01 Apr 2025 - Government misses 50% recycling target 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health support in schools to get £7m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Government can abandon or change levelling up missions 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities set to get powers to double council tax on second homes 01 Apr 2025 - Simpler, more flexible and transparent procurement 01 Apr 2025 - Civil service jobs could be cut 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 inquiry to include impact on children, mental health and local government collaboration 01 Apr 2025 - Over 500,000 adults waiting for care 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks 01 Apr 2025 - Planning reforms 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrank 0.1% in March as inflation and Ukraine war takes toll 01 Apr 2025 - No emergency budget and Boris Johnson's hints at announcement 'over interpreted', Michael Gove says 01 Apr 2025 - Will the fair funding review be another damp squib? 01 Apr 2025 - Gove ditches 300,000 homes target 01 Apr 2025 - Betts: levelling up bill has not gone any ‘further’ than white paper 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Underwhelming’ – reaction to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill 01 Apr 2025 - Queen’s Speech aims to ‘turbocharge’ economy as Prince Charles makes debut 01 Apr 2025 - Government drops controversial planning reforms after Tory anger 01 Apr 2025 - Flexible working could lead to council selling £12.6m office site 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech: Levelling up bill unveiled for planning reform 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech: Business rates set for overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation shock will last years, says former Bank of England chief 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up funding bids rejected in 28 of England’s most deprived councils 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech: Government to focus on 'growing the economy' 01 Apr 2025 - Council-run schools outperform academies in England, analysis shows 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet reshuffle 'before summer' 01 Apr 2025 - Second homes council tax plan 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'need clarity' over business rate funding change 01 Apr 2025 - Local government elections 2022 round-up 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up just got tougher, says Gove 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian refugees placed with unvetted hosts 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rate raised to 1% by Bank of England despite issuing warning of recession 01 Apr 2025 - Households forced to wait for £150 tax rebate after council delays 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 100,000 new homes delayed by nutrient neutrality regs 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC keeping Ukrainian homeless data a secret 01 Apr 2025 - Chris Naylor: Covid data use should inspire cost-of-living response 01 Apr 2025 - 3-fold Increase in unaccompanied asylum seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 business fine appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Ukrainian new arrivals switching schemes 01 Apr 2025 - COVID funding cut ‘dangerous’ 01 Apr 2025 - Refugee funding to depend on data returns 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warned to budget for 4% pay increase 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities learn their council tax rebate funding level 01 Apr 2025 - County deals latest: more areas consider mayoral model as talks go on 01 Apr 2025 - Government criticised over remote meetings inaction 01 Apr 2025 - Government begins paying back councils for council tax rebate costs 01 Apr 2025 - Betts slams government for lack of council support for Ukrainian refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Delays to council tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rate raised to 1% by Bank of England despite issuing warning of recession 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol decides to abolish mayor post 01 Apr 2025 - Local election results 01 Apr 2025 - Covid tutoring scheme not used by 40 per cent of schools 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson planning to bring back Right to Buy 01 Apr 2025 - Local government in England ‘hollowed out’ under Conservatives 01 Apr 2025 - Council waiting lists for care cap assessments 01 Apr 2025 - Migration committee: social care pay should be 39% above living wage 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation to ‘make or break’ council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Borowing cost worries prompt council to cut £100m from capital programme 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation 'double whammy' for public sector 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Major issue’ leading to delays in signing off council accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of funding impacting SEND children’s education 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority resources surplus falls 01 Apr 2025 - Experts criticise lack of clarity in social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Call for infection control fund investigation 01 Apr 2025 - Justine Greening tells why levelling up could fall short 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC tried to offer LGA funding to accountancy firms 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘under huge pressure’ to meet social care fair funding deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Joanne Pitt: Inflation means many difficult decisions for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Communities across UK handed control of £2.6bn levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Whitehall’s consultations black hole 01 Apr 2025 - Time to pause adult social care proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall’s housing crisis: planning and tax reforms ‘urgently required’ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove set to consult on new developer tax 01 Apr 2025 - Living wage could rise by 10.5% as inflation hits councils 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £300m to tackle drug addiction 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘cannot afford’ government’s waste disposal shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Summer recession risk 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for price cap scrap 01 Apr 2025 - Ten councils that haven’t paid the £150 rebate as thousands of households left waiting 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Unsafe’ UK accommodation threatens asylum seekers’ health – report 01 Apr 2025 - Every seven minutes a private renter in England is given eviction notice even though they have done nothing wrong, figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Fly-tipping gangs are costing council millions, new study reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Council criticised over community fund monitoring 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority resources surplus falls 01 Apr 2025 - Experts criticise lack of clarity in social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Don’t expect an infrastructure levy any time soon 01 Apr 2025 - Cashless Parking 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities scrap merger amid council-owned company concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors criticise council for trading with dormant company 01 Apr 2025 - Corruption prevention cheaper than cure 01 Apr 2025 - Delays of up to six months as council tax rebate scheme descends into chaos 01 Apr 2025 - Flexible working allows council to sell new HQ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove takes Thatcher's lead in struggle to fix Britain's housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Get the balance right: Tackling inflation in the public sector 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should focus on improving roads and housing, poll suggests 01 Apr 2025 - UK set for slowest growth in G7 as Ukraine war hits global economy 01 Apr 2025 - [Opinion] It is imperative to get the SEND reforms right 01 Apr 2025 - [Opinion] Will the cap fit this time? 01 Apr 2025 - English councils pay £1m per child for places in private children’s homes 01 Apr 2025 - Calls grow for free or low-cost Covid tests to keep staff safe 01 Apr 2025 - Jacob Rees-Mogg calls for civil servants to return to the office 01 Apr 2025 - Britain could fall into recession this summer, say experts 01 Apr 2025 - Homebuilders pledge to pay £5bn towards fire safety costs, says government 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: Inflation hits 30-year high of 7% as effects of Russia's war in Ukraine begin to show 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rebate date: When you will get the £150 energy support payment and who is eligible to claim it 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could be stripped of anti-terror responsibilities in Prevent shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Biggest squeeze for public sector pay in 20 years 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will have to provide DLUHC with more data – and more often 01 Apr 2025 - New grant funding for local authorities to clamp down on fly-tipping 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘don’t have muscle’ to beat profiteering in children’s social care 01 Apr 2025 - Government pulls £100m grant for tackling obesity 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Local government is taken for granted 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS employers could face legal action over sharia law compliance 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax discount for opening second homes to Ukraine refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 40,000 civil service jobs face the axe 01 Apr 2025 - DIY waste consultation 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax discounts for second homeowners offering up properties for Ukrainians 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation on replacing Vagrancy Act is launched 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to apply for grants to tackle gum pollution 01 Apr 2025 - “Let’s not overlook austerity’s impact on rural communities” says Kim McGuinness as she launches new ‘Fighting Poverty, Fighting Crime’ plan 01 Apr 2025 - Section 106 agreements to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Council leaders defend pay decisions after pressure group findings 01 Apr 2025 - Social care 'back of the queue' for government funding 01 Apr 2025 - Fairer funding – will the wait be worth it? 01 Apr 2025 - Northants: one year on 01 Apr 2025 - Planning objections to be blocked 01 Apr 2025 - NHS wards busy with patients ready for discharge 01 Apr 2025 - Councils banned from using capital flexibilities to fund redundancies 01 Apr 2025 - Defining the reporting boundary for public sector sustainability 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls must find more cash for wages 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates income set to remain below pre-pandemic level 01 Apr 2025 - New restrictions on use of capital receipts 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC figures highlight disjointed funding regime 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care workforce receives £500m boost 01 Apr 2025 - Council depots see attempted fuel thefts in wake of price hikes 01 Apr 2025 - Care sector ‘on its knees’ as infection control funding ends 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: 31 areas of England to get millions for bus improvements 01 Apr 2025 - Kimberly McIntosh: Household support fund extension fails to meet need 01 Apr 2025 - Headteachers’ leaders call for return of free Covid tests 01 Apr 2025 - 12,000 Afghan refugees still in hotels 01 Apr 2025 - Council set to spend £1m to bolster cyber security 01 Apr 2025 - Government maintains LEP funding levels for transition period 01 Apr 2025 - Headteachers’ leaders call for return of free Covid tests 01 Apr 2025 - Thirty-one areas given cash to boost bus services 01 Apr 2025 - Court finds in favour of councils over child placements 01 Apr 2025 - Mike Brewer: Sunak left councils without funds to tackle cost-of-living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - ‘This is not their death’: Government promises ‘key role’ for Leps 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £130m to tackle violent crime 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to fund housing for homeless refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Over £1bn of support for vulnerable families 01 Apr 2025 - No more locally-led responses to future Covid outbreaks 01 Apr 2025 - New unitary may inherit ‘significant’ financial issues, report says 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of bus routes axed in England in last decade 01 Apr 2025 - Rising prices and wages land councils with their own cost-of-living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - UK Homes for Ukraine scheme launches 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should help Ukrainian pupils attend school as soon as possible – Zahawi 01 Apr 2025 - Provisional Localised Council Tax Support Admin Grant Allocations 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up plans will fail, IfG report claims 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £7.5m domestic abuse funding 01 Apr 2025 - Testing requirement for care home visits to end next month 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority accounts: embrace the complexity 01 Apr 2025 - PM pledges to explore Universal Credit increase 01 Apr 2025 - Minister pledges 'scrupulous focus' on government efficiencies 01 Apr 2025 - Betts: Government must ‘get a grip’ of energy rebates 01 Apr 2025 - Two million households on low incomes ‘face waiting weeks’ for £150 council-tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills rebate: Average council tax bill will fall this year after Rishi Sunak stepped in to ease cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine scheme 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: Billions in Covid-19 PPE not 'fit for purpose' 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool launches consultation to scrap mayor 01 Apr 2025 - 1.3m families to miss out on council tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Gove pledges a 'waterfall of devolution' 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan refugees still unhoused 01 Apr 2025 - Amy Harhoff: Local government cannot tackle cost-of-living crisis alone 01 Apr 2025 - Gove criticises number of competitive funding pots 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for producers to cover cost of littering 01 Apr 2025 - Government urges councils to review contracts with Russian companies 01 Apr 2025 - Government vows to end 'postcode lottery' on SEND 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils face steep costs for breaking off Russian energy contracts 01 Apr 2025 - Ambitious reform for children and young people with SEND 01 Apr 2025 - Further council tax rebate ‘under consideration’ 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s social care provider profits warning 01 Apr 2025 - Most councils haven’t shared a penny of pandemic rate relief 01 Apr 2025 - Councils seeking clarity on Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Councils allowed to set up academy trusts in shake-up of schools system 01 Apr 2025 - Fuel prices hit school transport services 01 Apr 2025 - Nine councils to receive £300m in return for overhaul of Send services 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to bid for charge point funding as part of EV ‘revolution’ 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: public services to 'feel the squeeze' 01 Apr 2025 - Fears that devolution bill could be delayed until early 2023 01 Apr 2025 - Whitty: Focus on smoking, obesity and alcoholism has ‘gone backwards’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hopes fading for funding reform 01 Apr 2025 - Gloucestershire County Council to close four care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Minister confirms over 500 new accessible toilets to be built 01 Apr 2025 - Minister confirms over 500 new accessible toilets to be built 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for ‘urgent’ extension of COVID fund 01 Apr 2025 - ‘I’ve rattled Rishi upside-down’ – Leadsom predicts Start for Life funds boost 01 Apr 2025 - Spring statement 2022: Public sector workers 'face real-terms £1,800 pay cut' 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement 2022: National insurance hypothecation a 'myth' 01 Apr 2025 - School academy trust staff pay criticised 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement 2022: Cost of living dismay despite extra council cash 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement: Rishi Sunak seeks to combat cost-of-living squeeze 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Announces Spring Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers urged to reverse public health cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Sector set to clash over rates reform 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation hits new 30-year high ahead of Sunak statement 01 Apr 2025 - A fifth of children in care self-harmed during pandemic, research finds 01 Apr 2025 - Covid inquiry ‘ignores that children paid the ultimate price’ during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Cost to fix crumbling and pothole-plagued roads in England and Wales soars by almost a quarter to £12.6bn with backlog taking 9 years to complete 01 Apr 2025 - Council calls for support after appointing Gazprom replacement provider 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement 2022: What to look out for 01 Apr 2025 - Bigger councils 'not always more efficient', report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Councils remain in dark as refugees arrive 01 Apr 2025 - Unison calls for above-inflation pay rise for public sector 01 Apr 2025 - New £10m fund to help create traveller sites 01 Apr 2025 - Funding reforms key to ‘levelling up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to step in if 'Homes for Ukraine' fails 01 Apr 2025 - Pressure put on Treasury for extra COVID cash 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of charging electric cars on the street hits new high 01 Apr 2025 - No 10 eyes toll roads to collect tax lost to e-cars 01 Apr 2025 - Covid hospitalisations in southern England surge 01 Apr 2025 - Roads repair backlog reaches £12.6 billion 01 Apr 2025 - Prioritise mental health support for Ukrainians arriving in UK, experts say 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to cut fuel duty to ease cost-of-living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - How much will council tax bills be in YOUR area? Map reveals areas with biggest rise where hard-pressed families in average homes could face paying more than £2,300 a year 01 Apr 2025 - Public health measures are key to curbing Covid in UK, say scientists 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Airbrushing’ children’s lockdown experiences from the Covid inquiry is a ‘shocking oversight’ 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates ‘finished’ as funding source, says Pickles 01 Apr 2025 - DWP slashes housing crisis fund for poor Brits to lowest level in a decade 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘unleashing chaos’ with Homes for Ukraine refugee scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Covid immunity declines steeply in care home residents in England – study 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA/LASAAC backs IFRS16 implementation delay 01 Apr 2025 - BoE hikes interest rates again 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Inflation to mark a doubling of income tax revenues 01 Apr 2025 - Southern cities show strongest potential 01 Apr 2025 - Send support requirements expected to be set out in law 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes ‘could close’ due to underfunded reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Discretionary housing payments to be reduced 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘unleashing chaos’ with Homes for Ukraine refugee scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns over refugee data 01 Apr 2025 - War in Ukraine: No time to check homes of refugee hosts, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities will be able to top up council tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities seek new solution to ease Gazprom contract exits 01 Apr 2025 - Rising social care demand 01 Apr 2025 - Disabled people facing difficult decisions in cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities seek new solution to ease Gazprom contract exits 01 Apr 2025 - Stronger UK finances set to be unveiled at Spring Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Council forecasts £9m rise in energy costs 01 Apr 2025 - ‘I had no choice but to sort private care’: Families hit as councils struggle with rising social care demand 01 Apr 2025 - Britons paying over £4,000 council tax in some parts of the country with April rises due 01 Apr 2025 - Counting the infrastructure costs for county councils 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: We can turn around the problems of local audit 01 Apr 2025 - Heseltine: government moving at ‘the slowest consensual pace’ 01 Apr 2025 - Campaigners call for new homes tax to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Manchester bus journeys to cost £2 01 Apr 2025 - Cornish towns fear losing out from post-Brexit regional funding scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Free Covid testing in special schools in England to end this month 01 Apr 2025 - Petrol prices set to ease after hitting record highs 01 Apr 2025 - Call to devolve Afghan refugee responsibilities 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders voice ICS frustration to minister 01 Apr 2025 - Minister rules out 'abandoning' devolution framework 01 Apr 2025 - Census delay could hit finance reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Rural communities face ‘tsunami of poverty’ 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills rising faster than wages 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to expand fourth vaccine dose offer 01 Apr 2025 - Asset deprivation and care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Delaying National Insurance rise ‘no problem’ 01 Apr 2025 - Poorest families face prospect of inflation exceeding 10 per cent this year 01 Apr 2025 - Background checks to be carried out on people offering refuge to Ukrainians 01 Apr 2025 - Homes for Ukraine scheme 01 Apr 2025 - New refugee sponsorship scheme to include role for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for reform of ‘adversarial’ SEND system 01 Apr 2025 - Lessons from Ukraine: are defence exclusions ‘responsible’? 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Extreme’ Prudential Code will impact reserves, warns Mike Jensen 01 Apr 2025 - No more Government support to help with energy costs 01 Apr 2025 - UK has ‘sleepwalked’ into dysfunctional children’s social care market 01 Apr 2025 - People to be asked to host Ukrainian refugees in their homes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils and NHS trusts battle to break off contracts with Gazprom Energy over Ukraine 01 Apr 2025 - No one knows how many children there are in England, children’s commissioner admits 01 Apr 2025 - How to get the council tax rebate: When it will be paid, which bands get it and how to switch to direct debit 01 Apr 2025 - Why robust procurement is essential 01 Apr 2025 - Half of NHS budget spent on preventable diseases 01 Apr 2025 - New minister for refugee crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Government gives minded approval for unprecedented bailout 01 Apr 2025 - No one knows how many children in England, says children’s commissioner 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon, Nottingham and Slough set to balance books after eleventh hour support 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC ‘working intensively’ with sector on Ukrainian refugee scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Lords reject government bid to amend care cap 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC officials: Councils ‘overfunded’ for Covid costs 01 Apr 2025 - Government faces 'uphill battle' on improving health 01 Apr 2025 - Planning laws reformed to speed up 5G roll-out 01 Apr 2025 - Trade unions call for £200 fuel loan to be a grant 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Levelling up will be undermined by the shunning of local leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be given chance to sponsor displaced Ukrainians 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £150m final funding package for bus services 01 Apr 2025 - Sanctioning Gazprom would legally protect councils, Salford mayor says 01 Apr 2025 - Ukraine refugees may struggle to find places in English schools, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Priti Patel to relax rules to allow all Ukrainian refugees fleeing Putin’s invasion to come to Britain 01 Apr 2025 - Ukraine war: UK grants 50 Ukrainian refugee visas so far 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns over 'ever-rising' cost of Gloucester City Council cyber attack 01 Apr 2025 - Councils slam local audit process 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living crisis drives rising demand 01 Apr 2025 - Costs warning as Defra delays start date for packaging waste reform 01 Apr 2025 - LA maintenance funding frozen after cut fears 01 Apr 2025 - Extra £4.7bn for schools unlikely to cover cost pressures 01 Apr 2025 - COVID business rates relief ‘a total joke’ 01 Apr 2025 - The public bodies tied into Gazprom contracts 01 Apr 2025 - A tough sell: LGPS faces Russian divestment challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Successor schemes exceed EU structural funding, Sunak claims 01 Apr 2025 - DfE shows ‘apparent disregard’ for unequal schools’ financial health 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Shambolic’ audit system slammed for missed deadlines 01 Apr 2025 - UK’s economic growth to halve this year 01 Apr 2025 - Schools being impacted by budget reductions 01 Apr 2025 - Free flu jab to end for over 50’s 01 Apr 2025 - English councils seek exit from Russian energy firm 01 Apr 2025 - Number of children's social workers leaving roles hits five-year high 01 Apr 2025 - Second homes in Wales could face threefold council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - No more compulsory Covid jabs for care home staff 01 Apr 2025 - Minister warns of risks of devolving 'volatile' taxes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to have access to new online PPE portal 01 Apr 2025 - Warnings over unmet care needs 01 Apr 2025 - Clark: Reorganisation opportunity has come and gone 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax on rental homes of multiple occupation 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘will have to cut key services to pay for UK storm damage’ 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over ‘destabilising’ cost of social care reforms 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Disappointed’ south east counties eye second round of devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - White Paper has welcome ambition but fails to mention role of austerity 01 Apr 2025 - 'Underfunded' adult social care reforms put services at risk, warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria drops legal challenge to reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Unite announces industrial action over pay 01 Apr 2025 - Homes that are not energy efficient will cost an extra £390 after price cap rises, study says 01 Apr 2025 - Woman forced to sleep in wheelchair due to lack of care staff 01 Apr 2025 - One million people risk delay getting £150 council tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Extra 100,000 people from Ukraine will be able to seek sanctuary in UK 01 Apr 2025 - London borough to cut council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Ukraine crisis could push annual energy bills above £3,000 for millions, expert warns 01 Apr 2025 - External review to probe council property purchases 01 Apr 2025 - MPs approve amendment restricting LGPS ‘political divestment’ 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes in England lose 1,600 beds in six-month period 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls 'could employ 1,200 youth workers with cash stripped from vital fund' 01 Apr 2025 - Sam Freedman: Give councils new powers in an all-academy school system 01 Apr 2025 - What part of ‘mayor’ don’t you understand? 01 Apr 2025 - First wave of £67m Home Upgrade Grant awarded to 22 local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson under renewed pressure to scrap National Insurance surcharge 01 Apr 2025 - County deal talks begin amid prevailing reluctance to elect mayor 01 Apr 2025 - Shared prosperity fund devo offer ‘not real devolution’ 01 Apr 2025 - Reserves needed for county to balance final budget 01 Apr 2025 - Council to bring some services back in-house 01 Apr 2025 - Service decline expected despite spending power boost 01 Apr 2025 - Public health directors warn of dangers in ending COVID-19 testing 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Tidal wave’ of homelessness warning amid cost of living crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Covid boost for over-75s and high risk 01 Apr 2025 - England ending Covid isolation laws and mass free testing 01 Apr 2025 - UK government pushed to ‘come clean’ as decision on bus funding looms 01 Apr 2025 - Over 80s set to get free COVID-19 tests 01 Apr 2025 - Funding uncertainty prompts ‘Living with Covid’ warning 01 Apr 2025 - Henry Overman: Judge levelling up white paper’s success by opportunities for individuals 01 Apr 2025 - UK government pushed to ‘come clean’ as decision on bus funding looms 01 Apr 2025 - Care home founders took Covid funding and sent £2m offshore 01 Apr 2025 - Millions in England face ‘second pandemic’ of mental health issues 01 Apr 2025 - Mayor halts Bristol budget talks 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of elderly residents kicked out in 'tsunami' of private care home closures 01 Apr 2025 - NHS bosses call for free tests and isolation to remain 01 Apr 2025 - Prepare for mass migration to cities in climate crisis, UK mayors warn 01 Apr 2025 - Basic income: Care leavers to be offered £1,600 a month for two years under Wales pilot scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Delay warning on energy bill support 01 Apr 2025 - DCN plans fee hike to fund 'ambitious' expansion 01 Apr 2025 - O'Brien backs multi-year settlement idea 01 Apr 2025 - County forecasts ‘phenomenal’ £230m funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: ‘There is a significant risk that London is levelled down’ 01 Apr 2025 - County clashes with districts over its reluctance to adopt mayor 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up white paper’s pensions plan could cost councils dear 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to 'restore a smaller state' as part of No 10 'reset', says Steve Barclay 01 Apr 2025 - Gove: devolve business rates to mayors 01 Apr 2025 - Council creates cyber attack reserve 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation rises to 5.5% in January 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon to sell properties to avoid capitalisation borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - Dramatic fall in youth services spending per child 01 Apr 2025 - UK wage growth lags rising cost of living 01 Apr 2025 - Bus services could be cut by a THIRD as Covid emergency funding is axed, experts fear 01 Apr 2025 - Anger as councils sit on £850m of pandemic grants 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak’s council tax bodge undermines Gove’s white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors urged to ensure short-term funding reaches social care frontline 01 Apr 2025 - Wales to consider bringing in a 'tourism tax' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils secure £174m funding for 'move on' homes for rough sleepers 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson ‘having a laugh’ over rail claim 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in the dark over bus cash pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Anna Ambrose: Councils must unlock unspent money for skills 01 Apr 2025 - NHS trusts raise ‘significant concerns’ over ‘single accountable figure’ plan 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC official Tom Walker on the levelling up white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'in the dark' on Afghan resettlement 01 Apr 2025 - Councils rule out mayoral model 01 Apr 2025 - Councils demand to know more about deposit return scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Government has no action plan for improving children's social care 01 Apr 2025 - HMRC faces criticism over ‘cavalier’ attitude to lost billions 01 Apr 2025 - Confusion reigns over secret council audit report 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Funding cuts have changed the scale, shape and scope of local government’ 01 Apr 2025 - MRP consultation: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater 01 Apr 2025 - How best to respond to local audit delays? 01 Apr 2025 - Clampdown on commercialism ‘could push some councils to the cliff edge’ 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole row as angry husband demands council pay for damage to wife's Porsche 01 Apr 2025 - Comment: The Red Wall Deserves a Fairer Council Tax System 01 Apr 2025 - Local Government Finance Settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Road repairs cuts to funding 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living crisis triggering requests to help to councils, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Insufficient’ preparation led to IR35 non-compliance 01 Apr 2025 - Britain must choose between decades of higher taxes and cutting back welfare state, top economist warns 01 Apr 2025 - Gove asked to clarify new council tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Gove ‘interested’ in fiscal devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Social workers report 'surge' in children with mental health needs 01 Apr 2025 - ‘No fault’ evictions ban expected in Spring 01 Apr 2025 - NHS and social care link to be improved 01 Apr 2025 - Public health funding boost branded an ‘effective’ cut 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: Devo framework leaves the government holding all the cards 01 Apr 2025 - Final settlement insufficient to tackle long-term pressures, sector leaders say 01 Apr 2025 - Budget cuts mean 11m rural potholes will go unfilled 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands rush to challenge council tax bands to get £150 rebates 01 Apr 2025 - Budget cuts mean 11m rural potholes will go unfilled 01 Apr 2025 - New performance body will measure happiness and life satisfaction 01 Apr 2025 - County deal wish list: Nottinghamshire considers expanding horizons 01 Apr 2025 - County deal wish list: Durham seeks skills, transport and housing powers 01 Apr 2025 - Families spend £14.6m replacing missing disability support 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cap amendment to ‘disproportionately’ hit North 01 Apr 2025 - What levelling up? Councils forced into tax rises and drastic service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Most Tory voters want more affordable housing stock, finds poll 01 Apr 2025 - Emergency consultation launched on delaying IFRS 16 implementation 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax support scheme will be ‘challenging to deliver’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government sets 5% local investment target for LGPS to help levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - LEPs set to be ‘integrated’ into combined authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Levelling up will continue to be run from SW1 01 Apr 2025 - Social workers warn of rise in mental health problems among children 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax cut is ‘loopy and lopsided’ 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office criticised for not housing asylum seekers properly as hotel costs mount 01 Apr 2025 - ‘No viable alternative’: UK must introduce road pricing, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Millions to receive £350 boost to help with rising energy costs 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of watering down gigabit broadband pledge after 2030 ‘Levelling Up’ target announced 01 Apr 2025 - The volunteers helping people cope with high energy bills 01 Apr 2025 - New register for children not in school to be launched 01 Apr 2025 - UK hotel bill for 37,000 migrants is £1.2m a day, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May urges her local council to drop plan to abolish arts funding 01 Apr 2025 - Children in care homes 'seen as criminals not victims' 01 Apr 2025 - BoE expected to raise rates again 01 Apr 2025 - Slough bids for £270m capitalisation direction 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up white paper set to encourage local investment by LGPS funds 01 Apr 2025 - NAO report on levelling up funding 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up White Paper 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up will take years, IFS warns 01 Apr 2025 - Rural health services need ‘levelling up’, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Gove announces plan for £16bn LGPS levelling up investment 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria leader: Judge misunderstood judicial review application 01 Apr 2025 - Government to target 55 ‘cold-spots’ in bid to level up education 01 Apr 2025 - Councils get powers to fine motorists for minor offences 01 Apr 2025 - Poorest households face financial ‘catastrophe’ in April as cost of living increases 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs in supply chain warning 01 Apr 2025 - Staff shortages ‘clear and present danger’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to break UK Shared Prosperity Fund manifesto commitment 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to break UK Shared Prosperity Fund manifesto commitment 01 Apr 2025 - Minister sets timeline for Send green paper 01 Apr 2025 - Kerslake: Voting system change designed to ‘influence’ election results 01 Apr 2025 - £1.5bn levelling up pot to ‘breathe fresh life’ into disadvantaged areas 01 Apr 2025 - Mandatory jabs for NHS staff in England could end 01 Apr 2025 - Council 'breached procurement laws' over contract with subsidiary firm 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling-up plans target rogue landlords in the private sector 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors identify fraudulent payments in council financial statements 01 Apr 2025 - One-off grant sparks financial ‘cliff edge’ fear 01 Apr 2025 - DfE ‘drawing up proposals’ for councils to run academy trusts 01 Apr 2025 - Budget could increase inflation, says Treasury Committee 01 Apr 2025 - Authority to publish carbon ‘budget’ alongside finances 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: Significant weaknesses remain in government financial modelling 01 Apr 2025 - Gove allows under-pressure councils to drop services 01 Apr 2025 - One in five UK councils have no climate action plan, campaigners say 01 Apr 2025 - National Insurance: Minister says rise in April 'is going ahead' after reports Boris Johnson is considering delaying tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Domestic abuse rises sharply as cause of homelessness in England 01 Apr 2025 - Rents are rising at ‘the fastest rate on record’ 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up in doubt as £1bn a year cut from post-Brexit regional funding, MPs warn Rishi Sunak 01 Apr 2025 - One in six office staff would quit if denied flexible working 01 Apr 2025 - Authority to publish carbon ‘budget’ alongside finances 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria continues legal battle against reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - LEPs claim survival chances boosted 01 Apr 2025 - £37.8m government funding for local authorities to boost cybersecurity 01 Apr 2025 - Star Hobson: Bradford Council stripped of children's and social care services in wake of toddler's death 01 Apr 2025 - Green revolution of homes ‘slowed down by flaws and gaps in government support’ 01 Apr 2025 - Reinventing schools would boost Britain by £125bn a year, Times Education Commission finds 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet split emerges over National Insurance increase 01 Apr 2025 - Key worker pay falling behind rising prices, says TUC 01 Apr 2025 - Fair Cost of Care fund won't be enough, say providers 01 Apr 2025 - National tutoring programme is scandalous failure, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Gove denies levelling-up funding ‘abuse’ amid concerns raised by MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Minister resigns over government record on Covid business loan fraud 01 Apr 2025 - At least 4,000 non-Covid excess deaths caused by pandemic in England, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - PM ‘committed’ to National Insurance tax rise despite calls to scrap move 01 Apr 2025 - DHLUC official: Voter ID cards ‘by the end of this year’ 01 Apr 2025 - Finance round up: District plans council tax cut as county faces £100m shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - District authority to use reserves to fund council tax reduction 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rebates could offset rises in energy bills 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for hybrid meetings for budget setting period 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rise: Your bills could rise by £220 - are you affected? 01 Apr 2025 - UK’s biggest cities lose nearly a year of sales to Covid-related downturn 01 Apr 2025 - Entire cabinet 'would back a tax hike delay': Ministers are ready to act as top Tories, business chiefs and economists turn up the heat on Boris Johnson over planned national insurance rise, source sa 01 Apr 2025 - NHS ‘destabilising’ care market by paying ‘over the odds’ for carers and beds 01 Apr 2025 - Justine Greening: ‘A thousand levelling up flowers can bloom through councils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Fly-tipping: Government plans to tackle 'new narcotics' of waste crime 01 Apr 2025 - Value of county’s commercial investments plummet 01 Apr 2025 - Self-imposed housing moratorium costs council £1m 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19: The worst yet to come for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers acknowledge long-term savings from Everyone In 01 Apr 2025 - County chief set to revert to district role 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs warn vital health services ‘at risk’ 01 Apr 2025 - Sector call for reinstatement of remote meetings gains momentum 01 Apr 2025 - Spending power squeeze amid inflation warning 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall declares critical care incident 01 Apr 2025 - Two more council partnerships scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Government calls civil servants back to the office 01 Apr 2025 - Firms fined £33m for role in council pre-paid card ‘cartels’ 01 Apr 2025 - All Covid restrictions in England could end in March under No 10 plans 01 Apr 2025 - Hospitality warning on Covid grants 01 Apr 2025 - Pay rises fail to keep up with the cost of living 01 Apr 2025 - Strike action ‘doubtful’ as union’s ballot results come in 01 Apr 2025 - Joanne Pitt: Effective scrutiny vital as budget decisions get even tougher 01 Apr 2025 - Further details of Lancashire county deal revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Bradford has most 'levelling up' potential, Index finds 01 Apr 2025 - Javid guarantees private hospitals up to £270m before April amid Omicron risk 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable adults in England left uncared for as staffing levels fall 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson prepares mass clearout to save own skin 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers warned as UK roads in pothole crisis – ‘can cause costly damage’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK households facing ‘fuel stress’ will treble to 6.3m – thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Self-isolation law set to be scrapped in favour of move towards ‘learning to live with COVID-19’ 01 Apr 2025 - Half of councils forced to ration care, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Inner London and shire districts likely losers from funding reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should consider pressures index similar to NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Gove closes tax loophole on second homes 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation on local government finance reform ‘due in the Spring’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government to cut £50m school grant 01 Apr 2025 - Economy at pre-pandemic levels in November 01 Apr 2025 - COVID passes to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole-related breakdowns hit three-year high 01 Apr 2025 - The LGA and WPI Economics have Published Research into LG Funding Reform 01 Apr 2025 - Short term holiday rentals ‘crippling’ rural communities, warns charity 01 Apr 2025 - Improving health of 'left behind' neighbourhoods could boost economy by £30bn, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Staff shortages are ‘excessively high’, warn care providers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils chosen to pilot planning schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up funding failing to focus on social issues, finds research 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to lose out following Jamie’s Italian collapse 01 Apr 2025 - Daily cases drop 45 per cent in a week 01 Apr 2025 - Councils can offer rough sleepers cash as ‘incentives’ to get jab 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Councils overestimated financial hit from pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Gove clashes with Treasury over bid to boost manufacturing 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rise cancellation call 01 Apr 2025 - Stephen Hughes: Business rates system still needs fundamental reform 01 Apr 2025 - Widespread concern at ‘pointless’ business grants red tape 01 Apr 2025 - Hit services or your residents? The great council tax dilemma 01 Apr 2025 - McManus: Public health funding delay may lead to service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - County leaders hit back at Gove’s governor notion as a ‘recipe for disaster’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council calls on staff to volunteer for social care roles 01 Apr 2025 - Planning U-turn lets residents keep right to reject new builds 01 Apr 2025 - Cutting self-isolation to five days would be helpful, Nadhim Zahawi says 01 Apr 2025 - County seeks approval on care worker payment incentive 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap business rates due to energy costs – Labour 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson drawing up plans for UK to learn to live with COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - ‘We are coming for you’: Gove’s warning to unsafe property developers 01 Apr 2025 - Too many people living in expensive, unsuitable, poor quality homes – report 01 Apr 2025 - Three-day Covid test wait adding to spiralling workforce pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Essex CC's levelling up plans 'genuinely trailblazing' 01 Apr 2025 - NAO qualifies opinion on BEIS accounts due to fraud in Covid-19 schemes 01 Apr 2025 - Care providers call for ‘emergency army of volunteers’ 01 Apr 2025 - Auditor fined over local audit failings 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living crisis and social care 01 Apr 2025 - Plea for return of online council meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in £450m ‘truck cartels’ compensation challenge 01 Apr 2025 - District Council proposes U-turn on council tax rise after government boost 01 Apr 2025 - Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says 'we must do everything we can' to keep schools open as he announces extra help 01 Apr 2025 - Over two thirds of councils set to raise council tax by maximum 01 Apr 2025 - Less than half social care staff have had Covid booster 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Boris Johnson plans to 'ride out' Omicron wave with no more curbs 01 Apr 2025 - Bins ‘overflowing’ across parts of England due to Covid-related staff shortages after Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - More than 90 care home operators in England declare red alert over staffing 01 Apr 2025 - People who test positive on lateral flow tests won't need follow-up PCR, govt to announce - as 'around a million' isolating 01 Apr 2025 - Extra £60m to support adult social care services 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for billions of pounds to be diverted from NHS to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Counties' concern at care funding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Cost-of-living catastrophe’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government drawing up plans to prioritise key workers during test shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up to wait as No 10 confronts Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Sugar tax diverted away from fighting childhood obesity 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Super stranded’ patients take up 3,000 more NHS hospital beds in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: More vulnerable children to be let in school during future lockdown closures 01 Apr 2025 - More COVID-19 absences expected as UK schools return 01 Apr 2025 - NHS trusts declare critical incidents amid COVID-19 staff crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Bins ‘overflowing’ in parts of England as COVID-19 hits collections 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers reject calls for council meetings to be held online

2021

01 Apr 2025 - Councils to get £100m to support businesses hit by Omicron 01 Apr 2025 - Data reveals UK areas with the most new-build homes since 2017 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury windfall from rising energy prices 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority audit crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Social care system ‘infuriatingly inadequate’ 01 Apr 2025 - Domestic abuse services brace for surge in victims seeking help in first week of January 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for billions of pounds to be diverted from NHS to social care 01 Apr 2025 - £316 million government funding boost to tackle homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak announces £1bn fund for businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Energy bills could hit £2,000 a year 01 Apr 2025 - Deprived areas suffered most from austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Comf funding frustration ‘very much understood’ by senior UKHSA official 01 Apr 2025 - £25m scheme to protect rough sleepers launched 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to receive over £22m to boost vaccine uptake 01 Apr 2025 - Counties' concern at care funding 01 Apr 2025 - School cuts without precedent in ‘post-war UK history’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘North Shropshire result was about being neglected’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government to extend additional audit funding 01 Apr 2025 - Settlement allocation ‘clear indication of levelling-up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Revised Prudential Code published 01 Apr 2025 - Resettlement of refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up: Has COVID-19 changed the maths of where funding should go? 01 Apr 2025 - Anger over child deaths should not trigger knee-jerk overhaul of social care policy 01 Apr 2025 - UK shoppers avoid High Streets amid Omicron fears 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak has just 24 hours to save pubs from lockdown ‘limbo’, industry warns 01 Apr 2025 - Retired teachers urged to return to classrooms to cover staff absence as Omicron takes hold 01 Apr 2025 - Christmas curbs could be brought in within days, says Sajid Javid 01 Apr 2025 - One-year finance settlement provides 4% real-terms boost 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates rise 01 Apr 2025 - Sector voices disappointment over 'stop-gap' local government settlement 01 Apr 2025 - £53.9bn government funding for councils to help level up country 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts undermine fight against child criminal exploitation 01 Apr 2025 - Government actuary warns of pensions ‘strain’ on council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - No 10 ‘fixation’ with single health and care leader is delaying white paper 01 Apr 2025 - 20-30 councils in ‘active discussions’ over government support 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham issues section 114 notice following HRA error 01 Apr 2025 - Schools preparing for move to online learning in January 01 Apr 2025 - Councils postpone council meetings over variant fears 01 Apr 2025 - Cut back on social plans over Christmas, warns Chief Medical Officer 01 Apr 2025 - Pubs, shops and restaurants could be forced to shut in January as Omicron rips through Britain sparking staff shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Prepare to bring back furlough, IMF tells Rishi Sunak 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation surges to 10-year high of 5.1pc 01 Apr 2025 - Government defends care reform funding 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation in record increase 01 Apr 2025 - Council ‘named and shamed’ for not paying minimum wage 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Levelling up’ agenda undermined by pandemic response 01 Apr 2025 - Covid booster drive criticised amid call for vaccine hubs within councils 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: fair funding review edges closer as concern builds over who will lose out 01 Apr 2025 - Bob Hudson: It is not clear what government thinks social care sector is for 01 Apr 2025 - The police bill is an unprecedented assault on our freedom – Priti Patel must be stopped [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Heads warn of Omicron chaos in English schools, with staff and pupils absent 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan refugees unable to use more than 3,000 spare rooms offered by UK households, charities say 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak told to abandon tax rises as Omicron surges 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses to get more funding and possible furlough support if further lockdown is imposed 01 Apr 2025 - Government dismisses fears over reorganisation master plan 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for extension to outbreak funding 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs welcome £300m social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Police warn people less likely to comply with Covid rules after Christmas party scandal 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Work-from-home guidance reintroduced in England 01 Apr 2025 - Three in five councils fail to carry out a single fly tipping prosecution 01 Apr 2025 - Care home bosses decry £60 pay-outs from fund to retain staff 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt launched to find ‘ghost children’ missing from schools in England 01 Apr 2025 - Homecare services crisis in England at worst point yet, say operators 01 Apr 2025 - Government to spend £500m to tackle overpayment 01 Apr 2025 - MPs urge government to rethink plans for election checks 01 Apr 2025 - Remote meetings: government response promised ‘shortly’ 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to extend Covid outbreak funding as concerns grow over contact tracing capacity 01 Apr 2025 - Anger over white paper leaks purporting mass reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Counties face funding shortfall of over £500m next year 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns build over impact of Plan B on councils 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens eyeing council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - ‘F-20’ councils call for greater government funding 01 Apr 2025 - Fly-tipping in England increases during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - England introduces Plan B rule changes 01 Apr 2025 - Households in England face 'double-whammy' council tax tax rise next year 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers plan sweeping changes to local government as part of levelling up agenda, leaked paper reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Omicron variant may be 'milder' but its infection rate could be 'devastating', expert warns 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy stutters as health sector drives growth 01 Apr 2025 - Borough in section 114 ‘territory’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council spending on transport soars through Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses and unions call for state help after England adopts Covid plan B 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Fury’ that No 10 party will hamper Covid enforcement 01 Apr 2025 - Copeland ‘heading towards section 114’ 01 Apr 2025 - Prudential code changes sparks fear for district finances 01 Apr 2025 - Counties call for strategic planning model 01 Apr 2025 - Catch-up tuition plans in doubt 01 Apr 2025 - Alcohol deaths in UK hit new high after record increase 01 Apr 2025 - LEPs to be ‘scrapped’ as part of levelling up plans 01 Apr 2025 - Work from home plans 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up white paper delayed until next month 01 Apr 2025 - Pickles committee calls for more freedoms and resources for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Staffordshire councils agree county deal proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Largest ever funding boost to tackle drug misuse 01 Apr 2025 - Plans for council tax reform in Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Omicron spreading in the community, Javid confirms 01 Apr 2025 - Call for minimum funding 'floor' 01 Apr 2025 - McManus: more funding needed to support vaccination drive 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA reveals support for Prudential Code changes 01 Apr 2025 - Drug policy to be overhauled to focus on getting users healthcare 01 Apr 2025 - 'Councils have been short-changed. We need more government money’ 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care levy will ‘only go up’, warns Jeremy Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - Next pandemic could be more lethal says jab creator 01 Apr 2025 - Omicron cases rise more than 50 per cent a day 01 Apr 2025 - Government action following murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Civil war by January’? The areas lined up for pilot county deals 01 Apr 2025 - Richard Humphries: White paper will not stop social care crisis deepening 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall plans to cut 410 jobs to tackle budget shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset unitary elections date confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - County drafts in army after widespread power cuts 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Not clear’ how government will achieve social care ambitions in white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Much of government spending ‘either not evaluated robustly or not evaluated at all’ 01 Apr 2025 - Designations under coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations 01 Apr 2025 - Officers implore government to rethink remote meeting rules 01 Apr 2025 - Social care White Paper ‘set up to fail’ 01 Apr 2025 - Staff absences impacting pupils, say headteachers 01 Apr 2025 - Inadequate fraud checks for Government Bounce Back Loans 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan refugee resettlement 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set to trial digital technology to support social care 01 Apr 2025 - Figures show 688 homeless people died in 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Government hauls in auditors after 'flying blind' accusation 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC engages with 150 councils over finances 01 Apr 2025 - Schools beg parents to plug budget gaps 01 Apr 2025 - At least 42,000 social care staff have left sector since April, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - New ‘handyman’ repair service will help elderly stay at home longer 01 Apr 2025 - County borrows £50m to repay LOBO loan 01 Apr 2025 - Local contact tracing funding warning 01 Apr 2025 - Social care staffing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Neighbours to decide planning rules using street referendums 01 Apr 2025 - Most deprived schools hit hardest by education cuts in England, IFS says 01 Apr 2025 - DLUHC to tighten rules on debt repayment provision 01 Apr 2025 - Nandy appointed shadow levelling up secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne urges ministers to 'double' devolution efforts 01 Apr 2025 - Government allocates £11m to develop brownfield sites 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to invest in public toilets 01 Apr 2025 - Most deprived schools hit hardest by education cuts in England, IFS says 01 Apr 2025 - Watchdog's concern over deprivation of liberty orders 01 Apr 2025 - Josh MacAlister: councils should tackle excess profits in children’s care 01 Apr 2025 - Many DPHs ‘want plan B now’ amid concerns over contact tracing capacity 01 Apr 2025 - Care costs bill 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 400,000 on social care lists amid ‘rapidly deteriorating’ situation 01 Apr 2025 - New vaccines 'ready in 100 days' for Omicron variant 01 Apr 2025 - Schools asked to introduce on-site testing after Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to probe council tax collection 01 Apr 2025 - Domestic abuse crimes rose by 6% in past year 01 Apr 2025 - Commissioners warn of ‘capacity challenges’ in Liverpool’s finance department 01 Apr 2025 - Cost pressures mount on maintained schools 01 Apr 2025 - Government considering single leader for local NHS and care services 01 Apr 2025 - We’ll pay for northern rail lines, say northern leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Asylum seekers: Councils will be forced to take unaccompanied children arriving in small boats 01 Apr 2025 - Some elderly may have to sell homes to fund care, Boris Johnson admits 01 Apr 2025 - People in residential care dying alone and 'neglected' amid 'dangerously low' staffing levels 01 Apr 2025 - CCN conference: Hunt 'very worried' about social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - CCN conference: LEPs look set to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s homes that cost up to £22,000 per child a week 01 Apr 2025 - MPs back change to social care cost cap funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils instructed to take care of child asylum seekers 01 Apr 2025 - Dilnot ‘very disappointed’ by social care cap announcement 01 Apr 2025 - Freeports risk being ‘killed off’ by officials in Treasury 01 Apr 2025 - PM told: dump plan for care charges or face Tory rebellion 01 Apr 2025 - County 'breached procurement laws twice' 01 Apr 2025 - New homes to have electric car chargers by law 01 Apr 2025 - Number of people contacting NSPCC about child abuse hits record level 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 100,000 children could be in care by 2025 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to debate social care cost cap plan 01 Apr 2025 - Councils question logic of ministers’ community renewal fund decisions 01 Apr 2025 - £1.7bn early intervention cut prompts Armstrong call for levelling up rethink 01 Apr 2025 - Concern at Cipfa’s plans to tighten prudential code 01 Apr 2025 - Peers warn of ‘a crisis in child vulnerability’ 01 Apr 2025 - No deal from last-ditch pay talks 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate provisions swell council reserves 01 Apr 2025 - £96bn rail improvement programme announced 01 Apr 2025 - Care cost cap architect says change will hit poorest the hardest 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children unable to access help due to austerity, says inquiry 01 Apr 2025 - Social Care: The True Cost? 01 Apr 2025 - A&E overcrowding in UK ‘killing thousands a year’, say doctors 01 Apr 2025 - Poorer pensioners hit as cap on social care costs diluted 01 Apr 2025 - One in four primary children clinically obese 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation: UK prices soar at fastest rate for almost ten years 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘lost control of universal credit fraud’ during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Manchester faces £85m budget shortfall by 2025 01 Apr 2025 - Give social care workers £1,000 bonus to protect NHS, ministers urged 01 Apr 2025 - Heseltine on Levelling Up 01 Apr 2025 - Gove eyes a ‘Northern renaissance’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘End to free COVID-19 tests’ 01 Apr 2025 - Long-awaited SEND review to focus on reducing ‘local variation’ 01 Apr 2025 - Real Living Wage rises to £9.90 an hour 01 Apr 2025 - Relief as local role recognised in COP26 draft text 01 Apr 2025 - Cambridgeshire appoints new chief 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘misled’ unitary over cyber attack support, say councillors 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for radical expansion of parish and town councils 01 Apr 2025 - Council to consult on care home closures 01 Apr 2025 - People with mental health issues three times more likely to fall into council tax arrears, charity warns 01 Apr 2025 - Projects secure funding to improve safety of women at night 01 Apr 2025 - Local road condition worsens 01 Apr 2025 - NHS leaders call for social care support 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham sets out plans to tackle £28m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Middlesbrough to vote on scrapping chief exec role 01 Apr 2025 - Government to reduce competitive funding pots 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to pilot innovative ways of working with £5m funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Gove signals ‘redistribution’ of funding to support poorer councils 01 Apr 2025 - Gove calls for PM to chair cabinet committee on levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Gove ‘genuinely interested’ in double devolution proposals, says MP 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Gove needs to offer resources and the retreat of Whitehall 01 Apr 2025 - Covid jab to be compulsory for NHS England staff 01 Apr 2025 - Delay mandatory vaccines for care home staff or face ‘mass exodus’, ministers told 01 Apr 2025 - One in ten care workers could lose job over compulsory Covid jabs 01 Apr 2025 - Government to pause leaseholders paying to make cladding safe, Gove confirms 01 Apr 2025 - Gove suggests local government reforms will not go ahead 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn of a 'chasm' in electric vehicle chargers 01 Apr 2025 - Local government needs £68bn to become net zero, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Names of two new Cumbria unitaries confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - UK stop-and-search data ‘withheld to hide rise in discrimination’ 01 Apr 2025 - Revised codes set for 'soft launch' 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB borrowing crashed in October 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities ‘disappointed’ at proposed scrapping of school grant 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls for 'radical rethink' on calculating housing demand 01 Apr 2025 - Half of school CO2 monitors undelivered 01 Apr 2025 - Taxi driver shortages 01 Apr 2025 - 10,000 new charging points amid surge in electric cars 01 Apr 2025 - England’s hospitals already at peak winter bed capacity, bosses warn 01 Apr 2025 - Government extends post-Brexit fund timetable following delay 01 Apr 2025 - BoE keeps interest rate at record low in surprise move 01 Apr 2025 - Government allocates £200m Community Renewal Funding 01 Apr 2025 - Minister says family hubs should be ‘Sure Start plus plus plus’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government extends post-Brexit fund timetable following delay 01 Apr 2025 - Council-backed energy firm delays energy payments to regulator 01 Apr 2025 - Review recommends £43m of property sales at cash-strapped council 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Upskilling is the key to levelling up, not random cash injections 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils must sell off town halls and public toilets, warns minister 01 Apr 2025 - Scheme to replace EU cash for poor areas unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers launch TV ad campaign to tackle care worker shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria chief quits after three months 01 Apr 2025 - Over 400,000 firms 'stuck' in business rates appeal system 01 Apr 2025 - More than 60 councils receive share of £52m rough sleeping grant 01 Apr 2025 - LGA seeks urgent clarity on Community Renewal Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Regulator 'disappointed' at timeliness of local government auditor reporting 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021: Council tax cut will leave councils struggling, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak hails business rates’ ‘central role’ despite £7bn cut 01 Apr 2025 - Social care precept cap to be lowered despite soaring demand pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Lords voice concerns over care levy 01 Apr 2025 - Gove in major review of new department 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn budget 2021: Spending is splendid, until it translates to reality 01 Apr 2025 - LGA in adult social care warning 01 Apr 2025 - Disadvantage kids slower to catch up from learning lost during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Toughen up rules on ministers’ conduct – watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Twice as many youth services in England’s richest areas – survey 01 Apr 2025 - All NHS COVID-19 testing sites will start closing early 01 Apr 2025 - Britain won’t reach net zero unless local councils help retrofit homes, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax to soar as costs of social care and Covid rise 01 Apr 2025 - Online sales tax planned after Sunak eases business rates burden 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Budget 2021: Key points at-a-glance 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn budget 2021: Spending is splendid, until it translates to reality [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021: Sunak unfreezes public sector pay 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021: social care 'left out in cold' 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review: Councils to receive £4.8bn increase in grant funding 01 Apr 2025 - Fund social care now to protect NHS, Sunak told 01 Apr 2025 - Call to write off ‘two to three billion’ Send deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors fear blame for looming tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Expectations tempered for Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Britain's most expensive towns for council tax revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Councils and health leaders call for greater social care funding in Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rise pledge expected to ‘set tone’ of future pay negotiations 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021: Public sector workers set for pay rise, says Sunak 01 Apr 2025 - National Living Wage set to rise to £9.50 an hour 01 Apr 2025 - Housing reform could boost public finances by £9bn, Rishi Sunak told by building tsar ahead of Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling plastics does not work, says Boris Johnson 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn children’s social care costs will soar by £600m a year 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021: Ministers pledge £500m to support young families 01 Apr 2025 - Gove on social care, levelling up and planning 01 Apr 2025 - Government rejects financial ‘yellow card’ idea 01 Apr 2025 - Watchdog warns care services face a 'tsunami of unmet need' 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review set to reveal future of council finance reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Government undershoots deficit estimate 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ net spend up 11% during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Two ministers given ‘levelling up’ responsibilities 01 Apr 2025 - £850m cash boost for high streets to regenerate old buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Private children's home providers’ prices and profits too high, says UK regulator 01 Apr 2025 - Councils rubbish plans for universal green waste collections 01 Apr 2025 - Home care system for elderly with dementia is ‘on its knees’ 01 Apr 2025 - Homecare costs outstrip funding from councils, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Budget about investing in public services - Sunak 01 Apr 2025 - NHS in England to receive £5.9bn to cut waiting lists 01 Apr 2025 - £2bn for new homes on derelict or unused land 01 Apr 2025 - Professors urge 'some kind of Plan B' and warn emergency departments are in 'terrible place' 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office refuses to reveal details of Afghans’ resettlement 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs back plan to give people a vote on new housing in their areas 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors demand better protection from abuse and death threats 01 Apr 2025 - Care Homes Risk Being Hit By 'Tsunami' Caused By Workforce Exodus 01 Apr 2025 - Afghan refugees may be housed in UK hotels for up to a year, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Third of low-income households unable to pay bills, finds research 01 Apr 2025 - Anti-obesity scheme to offer voucher rewards for healthy living 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review set to reveal future of council finance reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Badenoch takes charge of local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet backs 20-20 vision for Oxfordshire 01 Apr 2025 - Councils commit to net zero half a decade before Government 01 Apr 2025 - Care managers report 'significant' service disruption due to staff shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Gove to be quizzed on councillor security 01 Apr 2025 - Questions over taskforce purpose 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘flying blind’ on service backlogs 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury rules out borrowing for net zero transition 01 Apr 2025 - One in three care home residents has received third dose of Covid jab 01 Apr 2025 - Authority dips into Covid-19 reserves to reduce capitalisation requirement 01 Apr 2025 - Care England chief: Councils should use other budgets to support social care 01 Apr 2025 - Government unveils £3.9bn heat and buildings strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak urged to tackle backlogs in public services or face greater costs 01 Apr 2025 - British households will be £1,000 worse off next year, thinktank warns 01 Apr 2025 - How England’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy will hit a care worker 01 Apr 2025 - Net zero strategy launched 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak expected to confirm end to public sector pay freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Cautious Sunak feels the heat as ministers demand cash not cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Bed-blocking soars as care homes struggle 01 Apr 2025 - Social care boss warns basic services will collapse without urgent new government plan 01 Apr 2025 - Bus services in crisis as drivers lured away to fill lorry vacancies 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax increase warning 01 Apr 2025 - PM to lead Commons tributes to David Amess as family call for unity 01 Apr 2025 - Schools ‘propping up a failing welfare state’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils brace themselves for local government exit pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Government admits Everyone In data gap 01 Apr 2025 - Research shows drop in council pay over past decade 01 Apr 2025 - Public sceptical of mayors leading on county deals, CCN survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - One in five public sector key workers consider quitting, union says 01 Apr 2025 - Winter support package expected for 20 local authorities over coronavirus fears 01 Apr 2025 - Bexley withdraws capitalisation request 01 Apr 2025 - District hopes of controlling £500m fund dashed 01 Apr 2025 - State-run app will offer rewards for beating obesity 01 Apr 2025 - 20 local authorities set to get winter support package over COVID-19 fears 01 Apr 2025 - Council house waiting lists ‘could double as Covid support ends’ 01 Apr 2025 - £58m to councils for home building on derelict land 01 Apr 2025 - Care staff shortage worse than before pandemic, study shows 01 Apr 2025 - Towns told to 'adapt or die' in face of flooding risk 01 Apr 2025 - Lords warn social care funding increase is not enough 01 Apr 2025 - Shortage of gritter drivers could leave motorists stuck on icy roads this winter, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - UK cyber head issues ransomware warning 01 Apr 2025 - Gritter driver shortage warning 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Little room for more spending, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Social care tax ‘must double’ to tackle crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils calls for extension of council tax support funding 01 Apr 2025 - Digital innovation could bring over £1 trillion to local economies by 2030 says report 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warned of 'shocking' audit fee increase 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for council tax support grant extension 01 Apr 2025 - Uncertain winter ahead as flu circulates at same time, says Harries 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak urged to cut business rates to boost high street recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Call for stronger Covid measures in schools after 270,000 secondary pupils affected last week 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole repair funding lost from council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - £220m levelling-up fund has not been given out by ministers 7 months on 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid working on radical plan to merge social care with health in England 01 Apr 2025 - Counties say 8% council tax rises needed without more funding 01 Apr 2025 - Former communities secretary James Brokenshire dies aged 53 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon to get directly elected mayor 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Councils face new funding headache 01 Apr 2025 - Services rethink needed over £36m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - North Northants Council to pay real living wage 01 Apr 2025 - One in three say levelling up is meaningless 01 Apr 2025 - Council workers reject 'insulting' 1.75% pay increase offer 01 Apr 2025 - NHS aims to give 35m flu jabs amid warnings of up to 60,000 deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccine rollout in teenagers described as haphazard 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax could rise by £220, say researchers 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak urged to bring in one-off wealth tax to plug £2.21tn debt black hole – poll 01 Apr 2025 - New strike threat as more unions reject pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson pledges no homes will be built on green fields 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s ‘Closer to Home’ campaign to begin 01 Apr 2025 - Javid vows to reform health and social care 01 Apr 2025 - Gove lays out his vision to level up the red wall 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Gove needs to offer resources and the retreat of Whitehall 01 Apr 2025 - Pensions check could lead to ‘contrary outcomes’ 01 Apr 2025 - Conservative conference: Council tax likely to rise to plug social care funding gap, Gillian Keegan warns 01 Apr 2025 - Schools told to stock up on tinned food 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax likely to rise to plug social care funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Open letter to Michael Gove from Rob Whiteman 01 Apr 2025 - Government attempts to clarify ‘levelling-up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unison warns of strike action over pay 01 Apr 2025 - Public health grant cuts run counter to levelling up, say experts 01 Apr 2025 - Health funding cut said to threaten levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor declines to rule out further tax increases 01 Apr 2025 - Gove tells Britons: ‘I’ll help you live your best life’ 01 Apr 2025 - Gove outlines government's levelling up aims 01 Apr 2025 - What the former housing ministry's new levelling up role means for planning 01 Apr 2025 - What do Michael Gove and Andy Haldane really mean by ‘Levelling Up’? 01 Apr 2025 - Landmark health and care leadership review launched to ‘drive up efficiency’ 01 Apr 2025 - A million extra health and social care staff needed in the next 10 years, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Javid announces £388m to protect care sector over winter 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers mull council tax rise to plug social care black hole 01 Apr 2025 - HGV driver shortage impacting waste collections 01 Apr 2025 - LGA warns council tax income cannot meet £8bn extra cost pressures by 2024/25 01 Apr 2025 - Council proposes using infrastructure levy receipts to service borrowing costs 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to extend job support schemes over winter 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers mull council tax rise to plug social care black hole 01 Apr 2025 - Afghanistan refugee resettlement 01 Apr 2025 - Police & Local Authorities given extra £23.5m for safer streets 01 Apr 2025 - Problem gambling costs society £1.27 billion a year, review finds 01 Apr 2025 - Local services will face £8bn funding blackhole by 2024, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Martin Reeves lays into levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Top recruiter predicts exodus 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman accuses some councils of going too far' 01 Apr 2025 - City writes to government over £24m education pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Local services need £8 billion extra funding just to stand still, councils tell Rishi Sunak 01 Apr 2025 - Areas hold back on county deal plans ahead of white paper 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers under fire over breaking of mental health crisis pledge in England 01 Apr 2025 - Furlough scheme ends with almost 1 million left in limbo 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living: £500m in new grants to help poorest households 01 Apr 2025 - Government launches £500m support for vulnerable households over winter 01 Apr 2025 - Grant Thornton fined £2.3m over Patisserie Valerie audit work 01 Apr 2025 - Councils would get funding from digital services tax under Labour 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury considers lifting social care precept cap 01 Apr 2025 - Social care system 'progressively failing' people, says ombudsman 01 Apr 2025 - England and Wales records more than 70,000 excess deaths in private homes since start of COVID-19 pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - LGO annual report warns of rise in upheld complaints in social care 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable people ‘at risk of harm’ as fuel crisis disrupts care services 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities predict children’s services overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Steve Reed interview: Fears about Gove, Labour’s devo thinking, and ‘council tax bomb’ 01 Apr 2025 - Labour vow to ban junk food billboard adverts near schools in battle of bulge 01 Apr 2025 - Labour conference: Reeves promises £28bn a year to make economy greener 01 Apr 2025 - School funding under threat as chancellor Rishi Sunak reins in spending 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccine passports could be mandatory at indoor and outdoor venues under revived scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Shadow chancellor proposes scrapping business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Social care plan 'contains far too little detail' warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - Union calls for reversal of pay cuts to give economy £3.3bn boost 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of children referred to mental health services 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Gove can lead levelling up agenda’ 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer to set out education reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Care providers warn of lending refusal 01 Apr 2025 - Clive Betts: Short-Changed Again 01 Apr 2025 - Triple whammy set to leave the poorest £1,000 out of pocket 01 Apr 2025 - Labour: Axing business rates will aid High Streets 01 Apr 2025 - Whitty: Deprived coastal towns need redesign 01 Apr 2025 - Adass president: social care system is ‘past breaking point – it’s broken’ 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up 'must start with councils' 01 Apr 2025 - Leicestershire faces worsening financial crisis 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG rebranding a ‘misstep’ 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of students absent from class due to COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - Hughes hints at multi-year funding settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Council apologises for SEND failures 01 Apr 2025 - Key Cumbria services to operate countywide say architects of two-unitary plan 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry in rebrand to put levelling up centre stage 01 Apr 2025 - Government brushes off reorganisation challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls for shift of focus in levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Developers who sit on land face new tax to fix cladding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘New deal’ call for England’s children amid mental health concerns 01 Apr 2025 - More delays predicted for major local government finance reforms 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG to be renamed ‘Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to impose ‘tighter’ fiscal rules 01 Apr 2025 - Local government still in the dark over social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury tells Gove not to expect lots of new cash for levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Gove to oversee rebranded department 01 Apr 2025 - Number of children in A&E with serious mental health issues jumps 50 per cent since start of pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Regional COVID-19 restrictions could return as local health chiefs get new powers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils fear social care reforms will fall apart 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick sacked as communities secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick sacked as communities secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could lose COVID cash over lack of data 01 Apr 2025 - Increase workers' pay to improve care 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt: Social care will ‘not get money it needs’ 01 Apr 2025 - PM’s levelling up advisor joins MHCLG 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: Gove’s clout offers sector hope 01 Apr 2025 - Ten per cent of private renters are now behind on rent, says debt charity 01 Apr 2025 - England care homes ‘may be forced to close’ as coronavirus jab deadline expires 01 Apr 2025 - LGC map reveals emerging devolution plans 01 Apr 2025 - Humphries (ADASS): Social care plan is quickly losing its sheen 01 Apr 2025 - Hall leaves MHCLG as Badenoch joins department 01 Apr 2025 - County Councils look for progress with Gove 01 Apr 2025 - Councils prepare for legal battle with Home Office 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for more time to spend community renewal cash 01 Apr 2025 - LGC map reveals emerging devolution plans 01 Apr 2025 - ‘You can’t level up everywhere’, says Sigoma report 01 Apr 2025 - Rural and coastal economies could see £51bn boost by 2030 report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to receive 'generous' funding under Afghan resettlement plan 01 Apr 2025 - New polls timetable would cause ‘catastrophic failure’ 01 Apr 2025 - ADASS 'perplexed' at social care plans 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG’s Wolverhampton HQ unveiled by Communities Secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Pension funds to face ‘huge pressure’ to reduce council contributions 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: Does local government need a new warning system for financial failure? 01 Apr 2025 - Interview: Districts call for ‘equal seat at the table’ in devo discussions 01 Apr 2025 - Senior civil servant voices disappointment over Test and Trace scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to receive funding boost for accommodating Afghan refugees 01 Apr 2025 - NHS funding settlement ‘less likely’ to meet future needs 01 Apr 2025 - Refuse collectors ‘poached’ by haulage firms 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 winter plan unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Developers' levy needed to support blue light services 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reforms ‘could leave sector worse off’ 01 Apr 2025 - Clive Betts: Johnson’s care ‘plan’ offers councils no extra funding 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary considers tourist tax 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care will account for 40 per cent ‘of all public spending’ by next year 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer moves to set out Labour's alternative for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers drop shake-up of planning laws 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Council tax set to rise’ under social care plan 01 Apr 2025 - Kent County Council resumes admittance of lone child migrants 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor forecasts £650bn infrastructure investment over coming decade 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 70,000 may die waiting for adult social care before Johnson plan kicks in 01 Apr 2025 - North of England may get three more mayoralties in devolution agenda 01 Apr 2025 - Rough sleeping is rising again as Covid emergency measures wind down 01 Apr 2025 - England vaccine passport plans ditched, Sajid Javid says 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson prepares to reveal winter plan based on vaccines not lockdowns 01 Apr 2025 - UK economic growth slows sharply in July 01 Apr 2025 - Extension to use of vaccine passports will be looked at if there is a 'public health need', Oliver Dowden says 01 Apr 2025 - Booster jabs 'set for go-ahead next week' - but vaccine creator says not everyone may need them 01 Apr 2025 - Young people ‘permanently disadvantaged’ by pandemic, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Half a million town and city centre jobs at risk as Brits continue working from home 01 Apr 2025 - County needs ‘clear plan’ on council tax 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: departmental spending to ‘remain tight’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy growth slows 01 Apr 2025 - Social care tax rise: Boris Johnson wins Commons vote 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care will devour 40pc of all public spending by next year 01 Apr 2025 - UK care homes say funding shake-up threatens their viability 01 Apr 2025 - UK care homes say funding shake-up threatens their viability 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 300,000 on adult social care ‘waiting lists’ in England 01 Apr 2025 - Mandatory jabs for health staff being considered in consultation 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19: Growing numbers of pupils at risk of exclusion and 'falling off the radar' as schools return to normal 01 Apr 2025 - Support for care self-funders ‘could destabilise market’ 01 Apr 2025 - NHS backlog ‘not a short-term fix’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of county road repairs ‘spiral’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council scrutiny ‘superficial and inadequate’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care ‘short-changed’ by tax funding 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: How much graffiti and fly tipping do ministers want? 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution ‘exactly the right thing to do’ says Essex leader 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor faces tough call on on care, pensions and welfare 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorkshire reorganisation to cost £38m 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic causes fostering crisis as the number of vulnerable children needing help soars 01 Apr 2025 - NHS to get £5.4bn extra to deal with Covid backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Promise of cut to care home fees for the better-off 01 Apr 2025 - PM to unveil overhaul of ASC sector in England 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit by bin collection delays due to driver shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Tax rise for 25 million to pay for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of Afghans to be held in hotels indefinitely as councils left ‘in dark’ over housing plan 01 Apr 2025 - Where will Afghan refugees go? Homes found for half of 8,000 new arrivals 01 Apr 2025 - Care home vaccine deadline triggering NHS ‘bed blocking’ crisis 01 Apr 2025 - School funding warning as pupils return to class in England 01 Apr 2025 - Waste collection still disrupted by HGV driver shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Government commits £5m to help councils resettle Afghan refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Shell aims to install 50,000 EV chargepoints 01 Apr 2025 - SEND children being left behind by council 01 Apr 2025 - LGA backs rates revaluation reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Survey reveals interest in PSAA scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Afghans who helped British forces to be offered indefinite leave to remain in the UK 01 Apr 2025 - The remarkable rise of the independent councillors 01 Apr 2025 - The remarkable rise of the independent councillors 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers face paying extra £70 for late parking tickets 01 Apr 2025 - Ofgem launches £450m fund to help homes and businesses go green 01 Apr 2025 - Schools will need to reintroduce tougher Covid measures in weeks, warn unions 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up: The seaside town debating what change is needed 01 Apr 2025 - Actuaries call for economic growth link for public pension contributions 01 Apr 2025 - Actuaries call for economic growth link for public pension contributions 01 Apr 2025 - Youth services funding warning 01 Apr 2025 - Increase in smoking in young 01 Apr 2025 - Schools told to stay open when pupils return in September 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for ‘golden halos’ to incentivise new care home staff 01 Apr 2025 - Tenth of care home staff yet to have first COVID-19 vaccine dose 01 Apr 2025 - £3bn gap looms for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Third of most deprived areas will not benefit from Levelling Up Fund, research finds 01 Apr 2025 - LGA ‘not keen on’ mandatory refugee quotas, says Jamieson 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall calls for further devolution to crack down on second homes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should work with Home Office on rough sleeping, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - Concern as MHCLG seeks more data on reserve levels 01 Apr 2025 - Tensions in north east as MHCLG begins county deal discussions 01 Apr 2025 - £25m government funding for carbon dioxide monitors in all schools 01 Apr 2025 - High Court grants permission for ‘Levelling Up Fund’ legal challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Social care charges: Disabled and vulnerable adults hit by steep rises 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in social care costs 01 Apr 2025 - County devo process ‘will move quickly’, says CCN chair 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for extension of apprenticeship incentive scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Yorkshire council in ASC staff shortage warning 01 Apr 2025 - Disadvantaged children ‘locked out’ of early years opportunities 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £20m for Family Hubs 01 Apr 2025 - New COVID-19 guidance for schools 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 impact on council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Councils collect record £1.76bn in car fines and fees 01 Apr 2025 - Social care ‘postcode lottery’ preventing 80,000 elderly people from keeping their home 01 Apr 2025 - Borough defends £1bn capital borrowing limit 01 Apr 2025 - The quest for local government audit sustainability 01 Apr 2025 - Union to ballot members over 'insulting pay' offer 01 Apr 2025 - Overlapping bids for devo discussions launched in Devon 01 Apr 2025 - Luton defends £1bn borrowing limit 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Pandora’s box’ opened in Hampshire as four councils request devo talks 01 Apr 2025 - Afghanistan: Councils in England pledge to welcome refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare policy ‘damages life chances’ of poor children in England 01 Apr 2025 - UK set to welcome 20,000 Afghan refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Classrooms in England ‘urgently’ need air filters, school unions say 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will not ‘lose out’ on business rate proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Partly-owned council energy company incurs £4m of losses 01 Apr 2025 - Proposed borrowing caps a ‘credit positive’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inter-council lending drops sharply 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB borrowing booms as councils restart building projects 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Pandora’s box’ opened in Hampshire as four councils request devo talks 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak pledges ‘no return to austerity’ 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorks presses for devo talks as districts accept county unitary 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire expresses interest in early county deal 01 Apr 2025 - Shapps announces £15m congestion and pothole scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury clarifies PWLB borrowing restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Data project to aid pandemic recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Four councils in bid to create East Midlands combined authority 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 measures ‘reduced the risk of infection in school’, data shows 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Significant inequities’ in SEN funding exposed 01 Apr 2025 - Essex draws on reserves to fund legal dispute 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire prepares for public health cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Nature recovery network expected to follow county boundaries 01 Apr 2025 - Councils and climate change 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows by 4.8% but misses forecasts 01 Apr 2025 - England’s pandemic crisis of child abuse, neglect and poverty 01 Apr 2025 - Winchester is least affordable UK city to buy a home 01 Apr 2025 - Scientists warn that herd immunity ‘impossible’ 01 Apr 2025 - Self-isolation ends for double-jabbed and under-18s 01 Apr 2025 - Tory cuts to English youth services fuelling crime, says Keir Starmer 01 Apr 2025 - The cost of Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’: £2tn, says UK thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Millions of children are breathing dangerously polluted air in school 01 Apr 2025 - Tonnes of recycling contaminated by ‘wishcyclers’ who can’t bear to chuck 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury clarifies PWLB borrowing restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Covid to ‘rip’ through schools unless safety measures brought in immediately, ministers warned 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorkshire: How we created a blueprint for rural communities to grow and prosper 01 Apr 2025 - Retailers tell Government to fix ‘broken’ business rates system 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria to fight Jenrick’s two-unitary decision 01 Apr 2025 - Highways England announces £200m roads investment across South West 01 Apr 2025 - Call to invest £600m to avoid 'bed blocking' this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn licensing decisions should cover public health 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB borrowing booms as councils restart building projects 01 Apr 2025 - Dementia killing more women than COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - Fly-tipping fines should be increased to deter offenders, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Herd immunity close ‘but Covid restrictions needed beyond winter’ 01 Apr 2025 - More than 100 councils and charities vow to boycott Home Office policy to deport rough sleepers 01 Apr 2025 - Workers ignore Sunak's 'back to the office' call 01 Apr 2025 - Soaring numbers of pupils taught in ‘supersized’ classes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils lose ‘hundreds of millions from tax loophole’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils agree shared services agreement 01 Apr 2025 - Fears councils could be cut out of LEP role 01 Apr 2025 - Councils may miss out on contain funding 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers refuse to reveal bid funds to be binned 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG spend on consultants soars 01 Apr 2025 - Councils missing out on £110m a year due to holiday home tax break 01 Apr 2025 - Rural communities 'overlooked' in levelling-up funding, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - More details of county deals criteria emerge 01 Apr 2025 - Counties accused of planning to ‘retake’ unitaries through devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - Council exit payments halved 01 Apr 2025 - Authority forced to rent facilities to hold Covid-safe meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax ‘scandal’ sees people in deprived areas pay higher rates than London’s wealthiest streets 01 Apr 2025 - Mums and veterans urged to apply to become bin lorry drivers as national shortage threatens refuse collection 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Use it or lose it’ rule for housebuilders amid crackdown on land banking 01 Apr 2025 - Districts call for 'equal footing' on devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - Council cyber-attacks rocket 01 Apr 2025 - Incoming CCN chair lukewarm on PM’s county mayors idea 01 Apr 2025 - NHS pay rise funded from ‘within existing budget’ 01 Apr 2025 - Extra £82 million a year needed to end rough sleeping by 2024 01 Apr 2025 - Devo deals vision: upper-tier leading role and directly elected leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Councils given £13m to help prison leavers find secure homes 01 Apr 2025 - Slough to make £200m capitalisation request 01 Apr 2025 - Unravelling the knot of education, health and care plans 01 Apr 2025 - ONS Blog: Ensuring population statistics meet the needs of everyone 01 Apr 2025 - Unions 'expect to reject' final pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset to grapple with £8m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Multi-million pound boost to cycling and walking budget 01 Apr 2025 - Brighton & Hove raises concerns over support for asylum-seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for urgent action to tackle health inequalities 01 Apr 2025 - Changing Places toilet fund opens for bids 01 Apr 2025 - New LGA guide to help councils shape devo bids 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs demand increases for every council 01 Apr 2025 - Peers call for council tax reform 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury civil servants given pay rises and £15,000 bonuses during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - TfL shaves costs but will need £500m more 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to reform Business Rates as 1 in 7 shops now vacant across the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Walking and cycling investment 01 Apr 2025 - Home Secretary urged to force councils to take share of child migrants 01 Apr 2025 - Average cost of council exit payments rises 01 Apr 2025 - Divided we fall: Unity needed over council finance lobbying 01 Apr 2025 - England's Covid care home deaths could be thousands higher than official figures, say providers 01 Apr 2025 - 250,000 jobs at risk as furlough scheme ends 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face bin collection challenge due to ‘pingdemic’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government considers stricter capital borrowing caps 01 Apr 2025 - County set to appoint new chief 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Systemic problems’ in council services on the rise 01 Apr 2025 - Devo deals vision: upper-tier leading role and directly elected leaders 01 Apr 2025 - More details emerge of government thinking on levelling up 01 Apr 2025 - Additional audit fee allocation ‘sensible’ 01 Apr 2025 - Young people exiting furlough scheme fastest 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for 'five a day'-style campaign to get kids exercising an hour a day after lockdowns 01 Apr 2025 - 'Crazy' plans to give every home SEVEN bins will send families 'mad' 01 Apr 2025 - Council pay offer increases to 1.75% 01 Apr 2025 - Districts defend Cumbria two unitaries plan as county claims bias 01 Apr 2025 - Waste crime could be costing the UK nearly a billion pounds a year 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls for funding reset 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson has flunked levelling up explanation chance, says MP 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will continue to draw on reserves, predicts Moody's 01 Apr 2025 - Empowering county councils ‘game-changer’ for levelling-up 01 Apr 2025 - Sharp spike in government debt interest payments 01 Apr 2025 - How to fund Britain’s social care system [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - English care homes could lose 70,000 staff over mandatory Covid jab 01 Apr 2025 - Key questions about plans for domestic Covid passports in England 01 Apr 2025 - Self-isolation hits bin collections across country 01 Apr 2025 - NHS staff’s 3% pay rise ‘likely to come out of social care tax’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rebellion due over COVID-19 identification 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Real concern’ over pent-up demand for services says lead counties chief 01 Apr 2025 - North Yorks among councils still holding meetings remotely 01 Apr 2025 - Covid sparks 6% rise in spend with external suppliers 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor facing 'difficult' spending review 01 Apr 2025 - Rebellion due over COVID-19 identification 01 Apr 2025 - Seaside poor health overlooked, warns Whitty 01 Apr 2025 - Care firm made £24m profits as Ofsted branded its children’s homes ‘inadequate’ 01 Apr 2025 - Javid tests positive for COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - County approves hybrid model of working for staff 01 Apr 2025 - Second round of schools rebuilding programme announced 01 Apr 2025 - Combined authorities lack ‘maturity’ 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19: Two jabs needed to enter nightclubs from September 01 Apr 2025 - Council finances unsustainable without reform, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces strategy to regenerate high streets 01 Apr 2025 - Michael King: ‘Listening to public complaints has fallen off the agenda’ 01 Apr 2025 - DPHs should ‘sit at the top table’ 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccinated social care staff no longer required to self-isolate 01 Apr 2025 - PM plans national insurance rise to fund social care 01 Apr 2025 - Councils forced to suspend waste services due to staff shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Senior figures react to Johnson’s devolution vision 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick sets out ‘key principles’ to widen devolution beyond cities 01 Apr 2025 - High Streets Strategy and last beneficiaries of towns fund unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Send review delayed again amid concern over legal entitlements 01 Apr 2025 - Councils push back over reserves raid threat 01 Apr 2025 - Government insists Everyone In is 'continuing' 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding cuts have ‘probably cost lives,’ study warns 01 Apr 2025 - Minister fends off towns fund criticism 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson puts counties in devolution driving seat 01 Apr 2025 - Council criticised for increasing care admin costs 200% 01 Apr 2025 - At least 75,000 people in England wait six months for social care assessment 01 Apr 2025 - £100m plan to slash council’s office space by three quarters 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ role in net zero 01 Apr 2025 - Early support for vulnerable children halved 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling up: Boris Johnson promises more powers for local leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Police chiefs want criminal inquiry into Matt Hancock leak 01 Apr 2025 - Price rises speed up again as economy unlocks 01 Apr 2025 - Council set to close offices in work-from-home drive 01 Apr 2025 - PAC: Government audit proposals treat local government as ‘an afterthought’ 01 Apr 2025 - MPs approve compulsory vaccinations for care home staff 01 Apr 2025 - Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners making a difference 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘offloading’ people with learning disabilities on NHS, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Bridge: Merging five Northamptonshire councils into one was not for the faint hearted 01 Apr 2025 - Local leaders call for devolved powers to reach net zero 01 Apr 2025 - Alarm over ‘freedom day’ 01 Apr 2025 - High street regeneration to be key part of PM's levelling up agenda 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19: PM urges caution as 19 July unlocking set to go ahead 01 Apr 2025 - Javid: tax rise could be ‘practical and obvious’ solution to social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Senior LGA figure calls for social care to be taken away from councils 01 Apr 2025 - Javid vows to reform social care 'quite soon' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils told to expect a rise in auditor interventions 01 Apr 2025 - Final COVID support package for bus sector 01 Apr 2025 - Steve Rotheram: ‘Ministers have gone cold on devo – but the genie’s out of the bottle’ 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: ‘Vital’ that fair funding review goes ahead 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' £3bn COVID Black Hole 01 Apr 2025 - Javid casts doubt on social care plan by end of 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Review urges more funding for addiction treatments in England 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick to reduce competitive bidding 01 Apr 2025 - Half may miss September audit deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Whitty calls for more tailored local messaging amid Covid surge 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick pledges to rein in councils pursuing ‘risky commercial strategies’ 01 Apr 2025 - 20 years of economic interventions have failed to help poorest communities, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - First shortlist unveiled for £120m zero emission buses funding 01 Apr 2025 - Fair Funding Review ‘on ice’ for two years 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick to reduce competitive bidding 01 Apr 2025 - Section 114 chief: We will not be the last 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick's exit payment intervention 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for debate on impact of long Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Young people not a ‘lost generation’, says Children’s Commissioner 01 Apr 2025 - More WFH chaos thanks to ministers’ mixed messaging 01 Apr 2025 - Self-isolation to be scrapped for double-jabbed and children in England 01 Apr 2025 - Covid bubbles to be axed in England's schools 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick tells councils to produce 10-20 year plans for their areas 01 Apr 2025 - State pension predicted to rise by 8% 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman: Councils that agreed capitalisation loans could follow Slough 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon could write-off £52m in housing company loans 01 Apr 2025 - Warwickshire launches recovery and investment fund 01 Apr 2025 - Mobile phones could be banned from schools in England as early as January 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak ‘must keep extra £20 on universal credit’ 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to announce plans for greater control of health service 01 Apr 2025 - Masks will become personal choice, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - Schools ‘bleeding out’ from Covid bubble system, council leaders warn 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell prompts creation of building safety regulator 01 Apr 2025 - Slough Council issues section 114 notice following mounting money troubles 01 Apr 2025 - Net-zero plans 01 Apr 2025 - Social care tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Authority-owned property investment company assets fall by £12m 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for deprived schools in England has shifted to wealthy areas, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Eight councils to undergo independent financial reviews 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor hails sharp fall in furlough numbers as scheme starts to wind down 01 Apr 2025 - Town Halls have been ordered to fund women’s refuges 01 Apr 2025 - UK 'must add 127,000 chargepoints by 2025' 01 Apr 2025 - Cash set aside for school catch-up plan is ‘peanuts’, warns education chief 01 Apr 2025 - UK's furlough scheme starts to wind down 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to create post-Covid 'golden age' of cycling 01 Apr 2025 - Business Rates Revaluations Consultation Launched 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Jaw-dropping’ fall in life expectancy in poor areas of England, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - School self-isolation hitting poor pupils hardest 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdowns leave half of teenagers battling anxiety and trauma 01 Apr 2025 - [OPINION] Is levelling up just a soundbite? 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Left behind’ areas receive less targeted funding, research reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Luton bails out airport with another £140m 01 Apr 2025 - Labour warns UK needs more than 127,000 chargepoints by 2025 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to review county finances as new administration questions strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Low income households could pay no Council Tax under authority's scheme 01 Apr 2025 - £1bn business grants still to be allocated 01 Apr 2025 - England’s poorest areas left far behind with lack of social infrastructure 01 Apr 2025 - Councils rake in £1m a week from drivers after bus lane fines double 01 Apr 2025 - Gangs warning for pupils missing majority of school 01 Apr 2025 - Mobile phone ban plan to improve school behaviour 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: School isolation rules could end in autumn 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19: End of England's Covid rules still set for 19 July 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA to provide further clarity on borrowing restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - London council prosecutes firm over jams 01 Apr 2025 - £483m government investment to boost and improve school buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Lincolnshire districts set to join forces with eye to unitarisation 01 Apr 2025 - Cyclists worst hit as fatality rate rises 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax debt rises to £4.4bn 01 Apr 2025 - Council capital spending to reach five-year high in post-Covid bounce 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Budget increases for key services due to Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly half of UK councils still don't recycle kitchen leftovers 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid new Health Secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Council faces spiralling costs of remedying fire-risk building 01 Apr 2025 - Auditor voices ‘serious concerns’ over council’s finances 01 Apr 2025 - Does local government need a new red flag system to signal looming financial crisis? 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation spike creates watching brief for treasury officers 01 Apr 2025 - Finance chiefs may have to ’embrace the uncertainty’ in financial planning 01 Apr 2025 - Income losses and lack of data hamper Whitehall’s support of councils in the pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Next settlement an opportunity to head off s114 dangers 01 Apr 2025 - Beauty spots turned into impromptu 'clubbing venues’ with piles of rubbish left in wake 01 Apr 2025 - 100,000 pupils failed to return to education full-time when schools reopened 01 Apr 2025 - Small businesses warn of 18-day gap in support 01 Apr 2025 - Social care leaders urge reform now to combat ‘perfect storm’ of problems 01 Apr 2025 - Javid to update MPs on lifting restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Children needing foster care ‘to rise by 33%’ leaving councils struggling to cope 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation to rise above 3 per cent this year, warns Bank of England 01 Apr 2025 - Plea for urgent cash injection for social care system as ministers delay talks on reform blueprint 01 Apr 2025 - Fear for English children living in ‘education deserts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic will force changes to next year’s GCSEs and A-levels 01 Apr 2025 - Leicestershire to reject £15m grant 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reforms delayed until at least Autumn 01 Apr 2025 - Northern English cities faced ‘avalanche’ of debt during COVID-19 – study 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of a million children in England missed school last week due to COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham makes ‘great strides’ on financial management 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset CC to open up to 10 new children's homes 01 Apr 2025 - Council to buy Bunkabins and park homes to house homeless people 01 Apr 2025 - Duty to share data across health and social care planned 01 Apr 2025 - Social care: Ministers urged to 'act now' on funding reform 01 Apr 2025 - Poorer white pupils let down and neglected - MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing eases in May 01 Apr 2025 - Government postpones ‘do or die’ meeting on social care in England 01 Apr 2025 - We have a duty to build more homes, Robert Jenrick tells Tory heartlands 01 Apr 2025 - Smart traffic lights get green light for cutting emissions by a quarter 01 Apr 2025 - Return of the Covid passport could keep pubs open 01 Apr 2025 - Councils highlight role of libraries in national recovery from COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - Remote working sees major cities lose billions in spending, research warns 01 Apr 2025 - Lift Covid restrictions when 70 per cent are double-jabbed, Susan Hopkins says 01 Apr 2025 - 'Great hope' restrictions can end early on 5 July and UK not in third wave, says vaccine expert 01 Apr 2025 - Parents back longer school day to catch up after Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon may need higher 2020-21 bailout amid ongoing turmoil 01 Apr 2025 - Self-isolation grants refused in 6 out of 10 cases 01 Apr 2025 - More than four million parking tickets issued despite car use plummeting 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn booster jab plan needed – health leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Government actuary proposes greater pension cost cap flexibility 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak announces launch of UK Infrastructure Bank 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £16m for virtual school heads programme 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: There is a pressing need to make council accounts more transparent 01 Apr 2025 - Eviction ban on firms behind on rent is extended by nine months 01 Apr 2025 - Children's social care a 'Jenga held together with Sellotape,' says damning review 01 Apr 2025 - New minor traffic offence powers 01 Apr 2025 - Children miss out out on free school meals funding 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s care providers under scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England code ‘protects’ authority-to-authority borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - Liability benchmark could save sector ‘tens of millions of pounds’ 01 Apr 2025 - PSAA proposals ‘pay lip service’ to smaller audit firms 01 Apr 2025 - Council property deals plummet due to Covid-19 and borrowing changes 01 Apr 2025 - Virtual meetings have boosted local democracy, survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - Councils levy over £1m fines for COVID offences 01 Apr 2025 - Call to give councils greater role in creating jobs and training opportunities 01 Apr 2025 - Two million requests for care have been rejected in past two years 01 Apr 2025 - Government to set new targets on air pollution 01 Apr 2025 - Proportion of children securing first choice secondary school places falls 01 Apr 2025 - Free school meals: Poorer pupils miss out in funding change, say unions 01 Apr 2025 - All councils in England and Wales handed powers to fine drivers £70 for minor traffic offences - such as yellow-box junction infringements - from December 01 Apr 2025 - £36 million contract for new MOD Police Patrol Craft 01 Apr 2025 - Parents of children with special needs tell Ofsted of Covid despair 01 Apr 2025 - Eviction ban on firms behind on rent is extended by nine months 01 Apr 2025 - Care services too focused on investigating families in crisis, says review 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on commercial evictions introduced during the pandemic to be extended until 2022, govt source says 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care services face ‘deluge’ of requests for support 01 Apr 2025 - Health department has ‘poor oversight’ of local care market 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers 'knew early years was underfunded' argues charity 01 Apr 2025 - Councils receive extra COVID support as lockdown easing delayed 01 Apr 2025 - SEND services in Suffolk to be reviewed 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Government thinking on future role of LEPs 01 Apr 2025 - Scientists warn of consequences of lockdown delay 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care services face ‘deluge’ of requests for support 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 vaccine to be required for England care home staff 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown easing in England delayed to 19 July 01 Apr 2025 - Restaurants and pubs ‘face collapse’ during extended England lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Limits on weddings in England to be scrapped from 21 June - but rules on singing and dancing remain 01 Apr 2025 - Delta variant increases hospitalisation risk but vaccine protection remains high, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown easing delayed to 19 July 01 Apr 2025 - Alarm growing over Covid financial support cliff edge 01 Apr 2025 - Key figures in Northants turnaround recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted to rate schools ‘outstanding’ only if they can prove they are helping the poorest children 01 Apr 2025 - Furlough will not be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown easing in England to be delayed 01 Apr 2025 - Waste collection plans to cost £680m a year, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Councils welcome fall in rough sleeping numbers 01 Apr 2025 - Profits from English children’s care homes indefensible, bosses to be told 01 Apr 2025 - Households ‘will have up to 7 bins each’ 01 Apr 2025 - Addiction treatment harder to get since councils took over, says Tory MP 01 Apr 2025 - PSAA outlines proposals to increase audit quality 01 Apr 2025 - Patel reveals rota replacement scheme for unaccompanied asylum seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey chief part of four-strong team of Liverpool commissioners 01 Apr 2025 - Councils press for bin collections overhaul funding 01 Apr 2025 - Hillier in financial sustainability transparency warning 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock claims he followed ‘clinical advice’ on care homes policy 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock: government needs more powers to intervene in social care 01 Apr 2025 - 30 towns to share government’s £725m Towns Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Former CIPFA president headed for chief executive role 01 Apr 2025 - Education advisor resigns following funding dispute 01 Apr 2025 - Uproar at move towards 'national bin service' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in 'mad dash to splash the cash' 01 Apr 2025 - Eight in 10 councils forced to overspend on children’s social care 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Levelling up should focus on FE and devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should have legal duty to provide ‘early help’ says report 01 Apr 2025 - Waste collections 01 Apr 2025 - Local government severance guidance ‘expected shortly’ 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick hints opportunity for remote meetings legislation if roadmap shifts 01 Apr 2025 - Child migrant legal threat to Home Secretary 01 Apr 2025 - McArdle: Northants downfall due to ‘dangerous over-confidence’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire faces £80m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey council leader to chair County Councils Network 01 Apr 2025 - Controversial Somerset poll backs district plan 01 Apr 2025 - Staff burnout in social care and health at 'emergency level' 01 Apr 2025 - 26 towns to receive share of £610 million fund to revamp their communities 01 Apr 2025 - Parliament: Shake-up of England's electoral map outlined 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Grief and confusion clashed with unconditional love and joy’: The hidden lives of young carers 01 Apr 2025 - June 21 lockdown lifting set to be delayed by fortnight 01 Apr 2025 - 'Jabs are working' as Covid hospital cases plunge 01 Apr 2025 - Taxpayers could end up paying 'more for less' as council tax rises while services are cut 01 Apr 2025 - Work from home advice could continue beyond June 21 01 Apr 2025 - Education bodies slam £1.4bn recovery fund 01 Apr 2025 - Schoolchildren to get 100 million hours extra lessons in Covid recovery plan 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘must raise game’ to tackle housing shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Counties see fastest growth in number of people claiming out of work benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Free council parking for NHS and social care workers to end 01 Apr 2025 - Banned insulation still used on schools 01 Apr 2025 - Eviction ban ends 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak seeks tech business tax deal 01 Apr 2025 - School day ‘to be extended’ 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown easing debate intensifies 01 Apr 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Finance reforms in 2022-23 'challenging but possible' 01 Apr 2025 - Cummings slams 'useless' Whitehall procurement system 01 Apr 2025 - Meg Hillier: early warning system needed for local government 01 Apr 2025 - £500m scale of Covid-19 council tax hit revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of girls ‘failed’ by police and social services 01 Apr 2025 - 75 per cent of new COVID-19 cases are Indian variant 01 Apr 2025 - Councils snubbed as government changes Covid guidance without telling them 01 Apr 2025 - Districts reprimanded by Jenrick over ‘offensive’ spoof campaign website 01 Apr 2025 - More disadvantaged children at risk of missing school since lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Rural areas face threat of 400,000 new homes 01 Apr 2025 - Government urges against travel to eight COVID-19 areas 01 Apr 2025 - Council companies lose £600k 01 Apr 2025 - Road funding will be cut by more than a fifth this year, warn council chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - New guidance on council-owned companies to be published 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Parts of England to trial self-isolation support 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Parts of England to trial self-isolation support 01 Apr 2025 - Chance of England Covid restrictions ending on 21 June ‘looking good’ 01 Apr 2025 - Parents oppose longer school days to help children catch up 01 Apr 2025 - Half of UK children playing out with friends less since pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Opinion: Councils must meet their SEND legal duties 01 Apr 2025 - Nottinghamshire pressed to abandon reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Councils charged triple the recommended mark-up on IT products 01 Apr 2025 - Report makes case for Annual Proportional Property Tax system 01 Apr 2025 - Final £576m allocations of future high streets fund announced 01 Apr 2025 - Joint chief of county and unitary set to retire 01 Apr 2025 - ‘A step in the right direction’ – sector responds to local audit proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces new local audit leader 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers under pressure to revoke law which makes it illegal to sleep rough, as 10 people a week prosecuted 01 Apr 2025 - Schools set to lose £118m funding for poor pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Death rate in England is lowest since records began 01 Apr 2025 - Doctors hit back at NHS bosses over orders to see patients face-to-face 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Disappointing’ pay offer for council employees announced 01 Apr 2025 - Councils charged triple the recommended mark-up on IT products 01 Apr 2025 - COVID crisis exposed council underfunding, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown reverses 40-year decline in smoking 01 Apr 2025 - Employers offer 1.5% 'paltry' pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Green light for councils' legal action worth £10m 01 Apr 2025 - New laws for house buyers, renters and homeowners coming this year 01 Apr 2025 - Tiers may return if Indian variant takes hold 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers lambasted by select committee 01 Apr 2025 - County leader in planning power grab 01 Apr 2025 - Burnham calls for Labour push on devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors defend council governance 01 Apr 2025 - Council criticised for handling of COVID-19 business support 01 Apr 2025 - Government to improve reporting and transparency of LGPS 01 Apr 2025 - NHS and local government ‘need financial sustainability to deal with future crises’ 01 Apr 2025 - Indian variant hotspot data set to determine roadmap future 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urge government to ‘retreat carefully’ with COVID-19 support 01 Apr 2025 - Social care evidence 01 Apr 2025 - Court ruling closes business rates loophole 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdowns ease in England, Wales and most of Scotland 01 Apr 2025 - Increasing confidence jabs work against Indian variant 01 Apr 2025 - Covid vaccines offered to teenagers at Indian variant hotspot Bolton 01 Apr 2025 - Queen’s Speech: government introduces McCloud remedy bill 01 Apr 2025 - Level best? What the Queen's Speech tells us - and does not - about 'levelling up' 01 Apr 2025 - Tackle high needs before it is too late 01 Apr 2025 - County Councils Network announces interim chair 01 Apr 2025 - New index reveals most and least prosperous local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Delays for Special Needs Plans 01 Apr 2025 - Watchdog asks police to investigate council accounts 01 Apr 2025 - UK economic bounceback set to outpace peers after big 2020 decline 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson told to deliver 10-year social care plan or risk derailing health reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Half of pools, gyms and leisure centres in England at risk, prime minister told 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils in England ‘waiting up to five years for special needs plan’ 01 Apr 2025 - Indian variant: Second jabs could be brought forward to tackle rise 01 Apr 2025 - Every patient to have right to see a GP as NHS abandons ‘total triage’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on bailiff evictions to be lifted next month as Covid support ends for tenants 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Levelling up is top down 01 Apr 2025 - Dismay at plans to shorten poll lead-in time and require voter ID 01 Apr 2025 - Serving MP set to become county council leader 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 inquiry promised within a year 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson promises Covid inquiry within a year 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy picks up as lockdown restrictions ease 01 Apr 2025 - Indian Covid variant calls in question 17 May reopening in UK, say experts 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May leads Tory revolt over push for new housing 01 Apr 2025 - MPs revolt over new planning reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Government's legislative agenda to focus on Boris Johnson's 'lifetime skills guarantee' 01 Apr 2025 - Failure to act on social care reform ‘will be bitter blow for millions’ 01 Apr 2025 - Indoor pints and hugs with family - Boris Johnson confirms new lockdown easing in England from 17 May 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson says 'one-metre plus' rule could be ditched from 21 June - and hints at no 'papers for pub' 01 Apr 2025 - No more face masks in schools from 17 May - while all university students will return 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's speech: PM's 'live local and prosper' promise 01 Apr 2025 - English elections 2021: Conservatives make gains across country 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections 2021: Counties buck the Tory trend 01 Apr 2025 - Scale of local authority Covid-19 pressures revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform expected to be delayed amid cost concerns 01 Apr 2025 - New measures to boost recycling rates 01 Apr 2025 - Unions talk up judicial review over McCloud reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Social care spending ‘lower than in 2010’ 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 pressures hit council-funded nurseries 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 funding frees up capital investment 01 Apr 2025 - Scale of local authority Covid-19 pressures revealed 01 Apr 2025 - London borough to refund overcharged water fees 01 Apr 2025 - Poor pupils fall further behind in maths 01 Apr 2025 - Fireplaces and stoves are bigger polluters than traffic 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers could be 'criminally liable' and may be charged for driving over a pothole 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution White Paper to be replaced by levelling up proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Call for masks to remain compulsory in England’s schools 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces ‘levelling up’ white paper 01 Apr 2025 - MPs want law to protect care home visiting rights 01 Apr 2025 - Schools struggle to access tutoring 01 Apr 2025 - New ‘levelling up’ adviser to steer government’s agenda 01 Apr 2025 - Disposable masks pose pollutants risk, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Holidays abroad should be discouraged to stop Covid third wave, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Hospitality bosses lose court battle over indoor opening 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson delays social care reform amid cost fears 01 Apr 2025 - 1m plus rule could end from 21 June, says Johnson 01 Apr 2025 - Government taskforce urges permanent job flexibility for all workers 01 Apr 2025 - More than 15 million people now fully vaccinated as UK reports 14 more deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson wants planning reforms to feature in Queen’s Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Covid modellers ‘optimistic’ third wave may not happen at all 01 Apr 2025 - NHS draws up Pfizer Covid vaccine plan for schoolchildren 01 Apr 2025 - Quarantine for Covid contacts could be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - 'I moved a few miles up the road and my council tax bill doubled' 01 Apr 2025 - Record rate of online Covid vaccine bookings 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 infections in UK back to late summer levels - ONS 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands head to UK's first club night in more than a year for coronavirus safety pilot event 01 Apr 2025 - Care home isolation rule axed for low-risk trips in England 01 Apr 2025 - New modelling ‘optimistic’ third wave may not happen at all 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 vaccine plan for schoolchildren 01 Apr 2025 - Planning reforms to feature in Queen’s Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform ‘expected to be delayed’ 01 Apr 2025 - 1m plus rule could end from 21 June, says PM 01 Apr 2025 - ‘More congestion, more pollution’: Clean air campaigners concerned about 20,000 more Ubers 01 Apr 2025 - Social distancing not needed at big events, Boris Johnson to be told 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 vaccine offered to people aged 40 and over in England 01 Apr 2025 - Councils obliged to meet burdensome finance data requests 01 Apr 2025 - Legal bid to continue virtual council meetings fails 01 Apr 2025 - Former Bexley finance director appointed chief executive of London Councils 01 Apr 2025 - Complex and failing: the social care provider market 01 Apr 2025 - Grahame Morris MP: Replace council tax with a proportional property tax 01 Apr 2025 - Social care ‘needs 1948 moment’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hertfordshire County Council loses High Court bid to continue remote meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell: Bid to shield residents from cladding costs fails 01 Apr 2025 - Gavin Williamson wants to turn more state schools into academies 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Try before you buy’ offer for schools to join academies, Williamson to announce 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccinating adolescents could help prevent third wave of Covid in UK – study 01 Apr 2025 - 40m people in England live in areas almost free from Covid 01 Apr 2025 - One dose of vaccine halves transmission - study 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish unions reject 2% council pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish party manifestos united by ‘disconnect from fiscal reality’ 01 Apr 2025 - £50m boost to London local government pension investment fund 01 Apr 2025 - Newham to appeal loan fraud claim verdict 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG intervention – what is going wrong? 01 Apr 2025 - Trial period offer for schools to join academies 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson: We’re on track to lift all Covid restrictions by June 21 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown fines should be reviewed, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Schools to share £1.8bn for building repairs 01 Apr 2025 - Summer schools programme opens for bids 01 Apr 2025 - Funds unveiled to support uptake of neighbourhood planning 01 Apr 2025 - All-female team create new guide to support safer public spaces 01 Apr 2025 - Questions over impact of reorganisation on Levelling Up Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pension reforms ‘on track’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cameron ‘persistently’ lobbied Treasury officials for Covid-19 relief 01 Apr 2025 - Bank considers risk of financial collapse from cladding scandal 01 Apr 2025 - The pothole pimpernels filling in for the council 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap social distancing in June to give people control of their lives, say scientists 01 Apr 2025 - Half of UK population has had first jab - and more than 12 million fully vaccinated 01 Apr 2025 - Mask-free summer on the cards, as vaccines take control of the pandemic, say experts 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson presses Sunak over cap on cost of social care in old age 01 Apr 2025 - Watchdog urges 'revaluation' of councils' role 01 Apr 2025 - Charity warns over 60,000 families 'tipped into homelessness last winter' 01 Apr 2025 - Children and families need £12.5bn over three years, says new ADCS president 01 Apr 2025 - Cap on cost of care in old age reportedly being considered 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap social distancing in June to give people control of their lives, say scientists 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Battle not over’ amid jab campaign for under-50s 01 Apr 2025 - Time to replace fiscal rules, think-tank says 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for clarity on exit data request 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness charity calls for Home Office rules to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Children and families need £12.5bn over three years, says new ADCS president 01 Apr 2025 - Charity warns over 60,000 families 'tipped into homelessness last winter' 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over MHCLG’s weak influence in Whitehall 01 Apr 2025 - Brit Awards to have live audience as part of COVID-19 event trials 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury to look at public health spending 01 Apr 2025 - District's loophole to allow virtual meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Councils at 'forefront' of climate change action 01 Apr 2025 - The beginner’s guide to freeports 01 Apr 2025 - Government proposes extension to audit fee deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers defend Levelling up Fund criteria 01 Apr 2025 - A “proper” transitional system could improve funding predictability 01 Apr 2025 - UK borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - 20,000 children off school register 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG proposes more flexible audit rules 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG to continue monthly data returns ‘for some time’ 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG: No plans to extend Covid financial support beyond June 01 Apr 2025 - Minister urged to ‘grasp the nettle’ and prioritise local government standards 01 Apr 2025 - Plans to overhaul recycling collections suffer delays 01 Apr 2025 - Shielding scheme took too long to identify up to 800,000, says PAC 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless charity warns calls from young people up a third in past year 01 Apr 2025 - MPs hit out at decision to scrap Green Homes Grant 01 Apr 2025 - Councils wait on capitalisation directions 01 Apr 2025 - Warnings of financial shock for care sector 01 Apr 2025 - Government to set new 2035 emissions target in law 01 Apr 2025 - Rising fuel costs drive UK inflation to 0.7 per cent in March 01 Apr 2025 - Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of murder 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole figures 'a watershed moment' 01 Apr 2025 - UK reports four more COVID deaths - lowest rise since early September 01 Apr 2025 - Under-30s less compliant with Covid rules, UK data shows 01 Apr 2025 - Young people who have had coronavirus will get £5,000 for being deliberately re-exposed to the virus 01 Apr 2025 - Unemployment puts hundreds of thousands more at risk of poor mental health 01 Apr 2025 - More children worried about pollution near schools 01 Apr 2025 - No simple north-south divide, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Pregnant women should be offered Covid-19 vaccine in their age group 01 Apr 2025 - England's R number drops slightly as coronavirus infection level falls across UK 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh council funding gap to hit £178m next year 01 Apr 2025 - Local government SEND funding ‘pitiful’ 01 Apr 2025 - £36.5m council funding to support Hong Kong arrivals 01 Apr 2025 - County reverses decision to leave LGA 01 Apr 2025 - No simple north-south divide, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls for abolition of Spending Reviews 01 Apr 2025 - Debate should move from survival to stability, says NAO lead 01 Apr 2025 - Storm brewing over exit payment data demands 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick moves to quell districts’ plan for reorganisation referendum 01 Apr 2025 - Virtual meetings case ‘helped’ by Jenrick move 01 Apr 2025 - Power of local government eroded over decades, report concludes 01 Apr 2025 - LGA welcomes Covid-19 grant scheme extension 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh PPE procurement praised despite pandemic challenges 01 Apr 2025 - Sector raises worries over homes bonus threshold proposal 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon hopes to receive ‘majority’ of housing company loan interest 01 Apr 2025 - Pfizer boss says people may need additional vaccines beyond their second dose 01 Apr 2025 - Rapid Covid testing in England may be scaled back over false positives 01 Apr 2025 - 4.6m people missed out on hospital treatment in England in 2020 01 Apr 2025 - England gets third jab as Moderna rollout begins 01 Apr 2025 - Pubs and bars face being punished for Covid rule-busting queues 01 Apr 2025 - People in their forties are next in line as Covid vaccine rollout hits target 01 Apr 2025 - UK records lowest deaths and cases figures since September 01 Apr 2025 - Covid lockdown eases: 'Sense of celebration' as pubs and shops reopen 01 Apr 2025 - Extent of mental health crisis in England at ‘terrifying’ level 01 Apr 2025 - Public back more city devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to bid for £15m traffic signals cash 01 Apr 2025 - Children ‘bearing brunt’ of mental health crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Shapps announces £18m cycle training fund 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for review of 'dangerous' obesity strategy 01 Apr 2025 - People can start thinking about foreign travel - Shapps 01 Apr 2025 - Twice-weekly lateral flow coronavirus tests now available for free in England 01 Apr 2025 - English councils handing huge extra care bills to disabled and mentally ill adults 01 Apr 2025 - England’s Covid vaccine programme could slow sharply, Sage says 01 Apr 2025 - Shoppers may need Covid vaccine passports 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 3,000 council fat cats now earn more than £100,000 a year: Shocking rise in pay for town hall bosses amid growing fury over soaring local tax bills 01 Apr 2025 - Appetite for PWLB borrowing returns in March 01 Apr 2025 - Campaigners in legal challenge to Levelling Up Fund criteria 01 Apr 2025 - Councils underspend £62m of childcare funding 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Funding 30% higher per head in Scotland than England 01 Apr 2025 - High Street sales tipped to surge 50% on 12 April 01 Apr 2025 - Hong Kong families moving to UK to benefit from £43m support package 01 Apr 2025 - COVID passports have ‘significant implications’ for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson gives green light for shops and pubs to open from Monday 01 Apr 2025 - More help for new and expectant mothers in England 01 Apr 2025 - Tests to be offered twice-weekly to all in England 01 Apr 2025 - Two-thirds of councils cashing in with biggest bill hikes are Labour: 51 left-wing local authorities ramped up charges to 5% limit - more than 12 times the inflation rate of 0.4% 01 Apr 2025 - Parents forced to crowdfund to stop playgrounds in England crumbling 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus passports can get people 'back to doing things they love', culture secretary says 01 Apr 2025 - Sunset clause planned to head off vaccine certificate revolt 01 Apr 2025 - Many students say their mental health is worse due to pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Everyone's Invited: Schools abuse helpline and review launched 01 Apr 2025 - Second vaccine doses outnumber first jabs for first time in single day 01 Apr 2025 - Grant Thornton defends Liverpool audits 01 Apr 2025 - Shielding coming to an end for millions 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in pothole repairs 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Favouritism’ in levelling up grants shows declining standards, says anti-corruption body 01 Apr 2025 - Get aboard £120m zero-emission bus scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Government 'recycling' cash between flagship funds 01 Apr 2025 - Principal authorities encouraged to pass £56m Welcome Back funding to local councils 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: To solve local government funding, form should follow function 01 Apr 2025 - Alert apps and ‘sponge’ road surfaces among new technology to deal with flooding 01 Apr 2025 - £500m mental health plan targets people affected by pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face rise in demand for short-term care 01 Apr 2025 - Short-term funding has held back care, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Financial collapse at Croydon could have been avoided 01 Apr 2025 - Next phase of Supporting Families programme launched with £165m 01 Apr 2025 - NHS trusts climb down over business rates claim 01 Apr 2025 - Government to ban Covid-19 business rates appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for long-term plan to tackle education inequalities 01 Apr 2025 - Government opts to retain legacy public pension calculations 01 Apr 2025 - County set to walk out of LGA membership 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of social care strategy left system weakened when COVID-19 struck – report 01 Apr 2025 - UK to set up health agency to combat future pandemics 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of social care to double within two decades, says NAO 01 Apr 2025 - Baroness Harding: communities not aware of Covid financial support 01 Apr 2025 - Marmot: austerity-era cuts to local government must be reversed 01 Apr 2025 - Government to ban Covid-19 business rates appeals 01 Apr 2025 - NHS trusts climb down over business rates claim 01 Apr 2025 - Online ‘family hubs’ 01 Apr 2025 - SEND family spends £20k fighting for school place 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock: Integration with DPHs the ‘only way’ new health security agency can work 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates review finds little enthusiasm for more localised system 01 Apr 2025 - Increase in small funding pots will hinder levelling up efforts, warn met chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - Second home owners face tax changes 01 Apr 2025 - £34.5m stolen in pandemic scams 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls on councils to improve digital services for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Government allocates £562m green improvement fund 01 Apr 2025 - Online sales tax ‘could help subsidise business rate reductions’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Inevitable’ third Covid-19 wave will not change the plan, vows Boris Johnson 01 Apr 2025 - Smokers in England cost local care services £1.2bn each year 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls on councils to improve digital services for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Government allocates £562m green improvement fund 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19: How has the past year affected council staff? 01 Apr 2025 - Government piles on pressure to speed up business grant distribution 01 Apr 2025 - Whitty warns of ‘real risk’ of local and national links disappearing post-crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Government strengthens tax policymaking with over 30 updates, consultations and documents published 01 Apr 2025 - UK faces 'Covid decade' due to damage done by pandemic, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Life expectancy a decade lower for men in poorest areas 01 Apr 2025 - Payrolled employment rises for third month after a year of lockdown misery for jobs 01 Apr 2025 - Hopes rise for office-based companies of cut in business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic forces finance reform rethink 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 shows need to reform, fire service told 01 Apr 2025 - 1.4% funding rise for council health services labelled `inadequate' 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick announces £212m pot to tackle rough sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - Size of Slough and Copeland loans revealed as support package hits £287m 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Local government cuts set to be far worse than expected 01 Apr 2025 - Social care leaders warn of funding 'cliff edge' 01 Apr 2025 - Marsham Street told to improve transparency 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Districts question fairness of reorganisation consultation process 01 Apr 2025 - Schools and hospitals face 'serious disruptions' as PFI contracts end 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock unveils £7bn funding boost for NHS and social care 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs support in schools 01 Apr 2025 - Schools missing out on millions 01 Apr 2025 - Five councils strike bailout deals with government over SEND 01 Apr 2025 - Communities call for funding powers 01 Apr 2025 - Mets to get bigger share of Covid outbreak fund as their income plunges 01 Apr 2025 - Plymouth to set up council-owned care company 01 Apr 2025 - 'Welcome back' fund launched for high streets and coastal areas 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities allocated £100m leisure recovery fund 01 Apr 2025 - Sleep-in shifts legal battle ends 01 Apr 2025 - More councils in funding talks 01 Apr 2025 - Government to extend duration of Right to Buy expiry 01 Apr 2025 - London – 40 per cent of households in four boroughs claiming housing costs 01 Apr 2025 - Kerslake: Levelling up set to become ‘synonymous with pork barrel politics’ 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall to pilot place-based approach to local government 01 Apr 2025 - Half of local audits late as NAO calls for reform 01 Apr 2025 - E-scooters are coming to a street near you amid surging demand 01 Apr 2025 - UK vaccination surge expected in coming days 01 Apr 2025 - Net zero 'not enough' to combat climate change, Environment Agency warns 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson launches £3bn ‘greener bus revolution’ to improve services 01 Apr 2025 - Services at risk unless NHS England gets £8bn extra funding within days 01 Apr 2025 - Major review aims to transform children’s lives in England 01 Apr 2025 - Safer Streets fund doubled to £45m in wake of Sarah Everard death 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh council warning over rates appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Councils welcome boost to COVID Winter Grant Scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson unveils £3bn bus revolution in ‘act of levelling up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Reform urged for outdated council tax that hits poor hardest 01 Apr 2025 - Third wave of Covid in autumn is inevitable, says ONS chief Sir Ian Diamond 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling-up ‘losing its way’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA forced to pay back £1m in unused grant 01 Apr 2025 - Only 60% of care home workers vaccinated in one part of UK as progress stagnates 01 Apr 2025 - Council to consider capitalisation direction offer 01 Apr 2025 - Income losses drive 11% jump in net council expenditure 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority test and trace ‘hampered’ by limited funding 01 Apr 2025 - Council Tax hikes to see some baseline household bills exceed £2,000 for first time 01 Apr 2025 - A tale of two Budgets? 01 Apr 2025 - Where are elections happening on 6 May and why do they matter? [OPINION] 01 Apr 2025 - MPs condemn Government’s ‘staggering’ cost of programme that failed to stop spread of Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: Local authority finances a ‘concern’ amid funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Air quality soars in school streets that banished cars 01 Apr 2025 - Child abuse laws to be expanded in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Children who receive false positive Covid tests at school to be banned from class for 10 days 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over photo ID law change for UK-wide and English elections 01 Apr 2025 - People aged 56 to 59 in England invited to book in for a coronavirus jab from next week 01 Apr 2025 - Concern quick-result tests on pupils will give too many false positives 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson urges caution as England schools to reopen 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health money for children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Households face paying £100 a year more in council tax 01 Apr 2025 - NHS may face a million long Covid patients after pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - UK 'well-equipped' to stay ahead of Covid variants, says top scientist 01 Apr 2025 - All businesses in England to be given rapid coronavirus tests free of charge 01 Apr 2025 - UK Covid deaths and infections fall by a third in a week with 236 fatalities and 5,947 cases in last 24 hours 01 Apr 2025 - Cautious continuity Budget indicates a lack of post-Covid vision [OPINION] 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak’s Budget focuses on growth – but little mention of public services 01 Apr 2025 - DCN bids to attract unitaries with new offer 01 Apr 2025 - A £150k semi-detached home that pays more tax than a £77m mansion: That's just one of the injustices in the council tax postcode lottery 01 Apr 2025 - NHS reforms risk sowing confusion and undermining safety, MPs warned 01 Apr 2025 - End Covid payments delay, says struggling events industry 01 Apr 2025 - Households of school aged children eligible for rapid COVID tests 01 Apr 2025 - Labour calls for council powers to intervene in high streets 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for review of local authority flood funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' loans legal action fails 01 Apr 2025 - Government considers pubs plan that would see alcohol duty frozen 01 Apr 2025 - PM has 'no doubt' about strong jobs recovery 01 Apr 2025 - 'Now is not the time for tax rises', say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Election campaigning allowed from 8 March 01 Apr 2025 - Encourage unemployed to staff polling stations, says Cabinet Office 01 Apr 2025 - ‘levelling up is levelling down for London’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unison call for election safety measures 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury officials are likely to find themselves in Darlington 01 Apr 2025 - School closures risk 'permanent scarring' to children, adviser warns 01 Apr 2025 - If we don't reform social care now, when will we? 01 Apr 2025 - Compulsory jabs for care staff supported by Robert Buckland 01 Apr 2025 - Single Pfizer vaccine dose could be enough for people who have had Covid, studies show 01 Apr 2025 - How ministers are planning to seize control of policy from Public Health England 01 Apr 2025 - Doorstep campaigning for local elections to resume in England 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to inject £126m to boost traineeship scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to use budget to start repairing UK's public finances 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to provide grocery shopping to stop people breaking Covid self-isolation rules 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus levels 'burning quite hot' in some of UK 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccinating by age not job 'will save the most lives' - Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - Prudential code: “Not perfect, but its heart is in the right place” 01 Apr 2025 - Is local government funding “broken”? 01 Apr 2025 - MPs investigate ditching smart motorways 01 Apr 2025 - Green homes grant will meet only tiny fraction of target in England 01 Apr 2025 - Major cities falling well behind in UK's bid to vaccinate its way out of lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - English school leaders despair over new rules on Covid tests and masks 01 Apr 2025 - Councils fail to hand out £1.6bn of Covid grants for small business 01 Apr 2025 - NHS struggles with dysfunctional audit market 01 Apr 2025 - Oxfordshire pays out £1.6m following procurement dispute 01 Apr 2025 - UK government denies £1.7bn request from Scottish Government 01 Apr 2025 - Leap in size of local authority peer lending 01 Apr 2025 - Judge throws out council LOBO fraud claim against Barclays 01 Apr 2025 - Government considering local audit ‘system leader’ 01 Apr 2025 - Mendip District Council back universal basic income trial 01 Apr 2025 - Council facing legal action over 'knee-jerk' cycle lane removal 01 Apr 2025 - Ring-fence national insurance to cover many care costs says PM’s ex-aide 01 Apr 2025 - New Levelling Up Fund using money diverted from Towns Fund 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG to make move from Whitehall to Wolverhampton 01 Apr 2025 - Councils bending rules to vaccinate key workers 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services face £824m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Index reveals funding woes 01 Apr 2025 - Figures show pre-pandemic fly-tipping rise across England 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak is planning 'giveaway' budget next week to inject the UK with a post-lockdown boom after No10's slow road to freedom - with help for motorists, hospitality firms and the housing market 01 Apr 2025 - New legislation extends proxy voting in local elections 01 Apr 2025 - Levelling Up Fund to feature rapid bid process 01 Apr 2025 - pposition to national audit body risks more MHCLG regulation 01 Apr 2025 - Review of business rates delayed until autumn 01 Apr 2025 - Councils predict £2bn black hole due to business rate appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Pressure mounts over SEND grant deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Councils walk away from business rates pools amid income fears 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 pressures hit grant fraud prevention 01 Apr 2025 - Grants of £150m available to councils in homes partnership initiative 01 Apr 2025 - Buss to take over as Croydon finance chief 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021 rumour round-up: Corporation tax ‘hike expected’ 01 Apr 2025 - Torbay latest council to shelve commercial investment 01 Apr 2025 - Under-25s worst-hit as unemployment rises again 01 Apr 2025 - 'Large wave' of infections if restrictions were eased too fast and some measures will be needed beyond 2021, scientists warn 01 Apr 2025 - Covid test and vaccine certificates could help sectors reopen in England 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson unveils plan to end England restrictions by 21 June 01 Apr 2025 - Keep funding green homes to meet emissions target, say businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Labour urges Rishi Sunak to extend Covid self-isolation payments 01 Apr 2025 - UK homeless deaths rise by more than a third in a year, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - More than 7% of children have attempted suicide by 17 01 Apr 2025 - Catch-up narrative putting 'huge pressure' on children, psychologists say 01 Apr 2025 - UK vaccine rollout should turn to children 'as fast as we can', says SAGE expert 01 Apr 2025 - Firms with government licences caught fly-tipping, Panorama investigation finds 01 Apr 2025 - UK reports another 215 coronavirus deaths as number of people jabbed hits 17.5 million 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to unveil 'cautious' plan to lift England's lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Doubling up: Somerset better off with two unitaries 01 Apr 2025 - Study launched to assess council Covid-19 procurement 01 Apr 2025 - Northern transport network scraps contactless payment plan 01 Apr 2025 - Resilience index shows drop in reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Value of council's purchases plummet due to pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Church of England land should be used to help tackle housing crisis, says report 01 Apr 2025 - UK government under growing pressure over Covid procurement 01 Apr 2025 - End outside sport ban, top scientist urges Johnson as all adults set for jab by July 01 Apr 2025 - All UK adults to be offered jab by 31 July 01 Apr 2025 - Housing department confirms second headquarters in Wolverhampton 01 Apr 2025 - Ambulance delays led to 'secondary Covid victims' 01 Apr 2025 - Burnt-out NHS staff to be boosted by military medics as they brace for wave of non-coronavirus patients 01 Apr 2025 - Whitty at odds with Johnson over 'big bang' reopening of schools in England 01 Apr 2025 - Fears of English local elections chaos due to lack of staff and venues 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on placing under-16s in unregulated housing risks creating 'two-tier' system 01 Apr 2025 - Tories accuse Lib Dems over doorstep campaigning 01 Apr 2025 - Two Croydon directors resign as disciplinary process begins 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson pledges surplus to poorer countries at G7 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs pupils in England 'pushed to one side' in Covid crisis 01 Apr 2025 - One in six new universal credit claimants forced to skip meals 01 Apr 2025 - 'Large number' of contact tracers to be sacked - as PM prepares to announce loosening of lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to extend rates relief and furlough 01 Apr 2025 - Some children won't return to school until April under phased reopening plans 01 Apr 2025 - 10,000 children in care were sent to potentially unsafe places to live - including caravans, tents and barges 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector fraud ‘should be treated as national security issue' 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish Government to extend rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - NAO to probe local authority audit deadlines 01 Apr 2025 - Councils predict £2bn black hole due to business rate appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Boris Johnson to focus on 'data, not dates' for lockdown easing 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped youth services 'at crisis point' in coronavirus crisis, warns YMCA 01 Apr 2025 - Covid shows need for bigger government role, says Starmer 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor urged to use budget to tackle rent debt crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Parents to test children for Covid twice a week 01 Apr 2025 - Exit pay cap revoked 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Exceptional support’ councils promised £96m by 2022 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick confirms £3.5bn plan to replace unsafe cladding 01 Apr 2025 - DfE tells returning officers to use businesses for polling stations 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon senior management team suspended 01 Apr 2025 - New phase begins after first vaccine target hit in England 01 Apr 2025 - Hotel quarantine comes into force in UK 01 Apr 2025 - MPs urge government to spell out economic and health impacts of easing lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Social businesses shut out of government support 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson should repay north of England voters with private investment 01 Apr 2025 - Funding to fix equivalent of 10 million potholes allocated to local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Remove parking spaces to drive greener travel, study says 01 Apr 2025 - ONS gears up for once-in-a-decade challenge with 2021 census 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury climbdown over public sector exit cap 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘lacks knowledge of environmental tax impacts’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks by double previous record in 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Environmental issue - the UK's new green bond 01 Apr 2025 - Eviction ban in England extended until March 01 Apr 2025 - Call for 'summer of play' to help English pupils recover from Covid-19 stress 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers and police set to be given Covid vaccine priority after over-50s 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy suffered record annual slump in 2020 01 Apr 2025 - £27bn roads plan in doubt after Shapps overrode official advice 01 Apr 2025 - Anger at cladding 'betrayal': Government pledges £3.5bn to help fix crisis - but innocent victims STILL face massive bills to make their fire-risk homes safe 01 Apr 2025 - School catch-up in England could take 5 years, says education recovery tsar 01 Apr 2025 - Four English councils get emergency government funding 01 Apr 2025 - Duncan McGinty: Stronger Somerset devo model recognises county’s diversity 01 Apr 2025 - Poll venues in short supply as Williamson urged to unblock schools use 01 Apr 2025 - Just 11% back May elections date amid Covid concern 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of budget shortfall for May elections 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to announce billions in funding to help homeowners with cladding removal 01 Apr 2025 - Putting councils 'in the driving seat' would save £1.6bn, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Poor parents sending their kids to relatives during Covid so they can get food 01 Apr 2025 - At least 12 English councils in rescue talks as Covid shatters local finances 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19: Boris Johnson doesn't rule out extending school summer term to help pupils catch up 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson’s golden chance to fix social care 01 Apr 2025 - Spending power ‘two percentage points lower’ than government's claim 01 Apr 2025 - £15m ‘uplift’ for Covid-19 elections 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2021: Council tax centralisation could hurt local democracy 01 Apr 2025 - Covid hits exam-taking and poorer pupils worst, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Reform business rates or risk a high street collapse, say firms 01 Apr 2025 - UK care workers use up leave to avoid losing pay while sick with Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Executive who sold cladding for Grenfell to appear before inquiry 01 Apr 2025 - Labour would oversee radical insourcing of public services 01 Apr 2025 - Six month delay to government’s new health protection agency 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Care home bans on visits 'breach' human rights 01 Apr 2025 - PM says 8 March 'prudent' for English schools' return as scientists issue warning 01 Apr 2025 - PM names head of school pandemic catch-up plan 01 Apr 2025 - Fix failing poverty-fighting schemes run by local councils after huge cuts, Tory MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Half of care home staff at UK's largest provider have not had Covid vaccine 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes 'could soon reopen to visitors' before residents have second shot of Covid vaccine 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson pushes to reopen schools as Covid cases fall 01 Apr 2025 - England might not return to regional restrictions as lockdown is eased, Boris Johnson suggests 01 Apr 2025 - 9.3 million people have received first vaccine dose as UK records another 406 deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Care home vaccine 'milestone' reached in England 01 Apr 2025 - Firms call for details of post lockdown reopening so they can plan 01 Apr 2025 - Government faces more pressure to extend £20-a-week Covid top-up 01 Apr 2025 - Binmen lift the lid on mountains of beer bottles and garden waste 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer demands help for ‘hostages’ in unsellable flats 01 Apr 2025 - Plea for children's play to be designated 'essential exercise' during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Older age groups in UK ‘will die’ if Covid vaccine priority goes to younger key workers 01 Apr 2025 - Social distancing may have to remain in place all year 01 Apr 2025 - Jobs first as ministers plan for life after Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - Tory rebellion looms over flat-owners’ cladding bills 01 Apr 2025 - The devastating toll of the pandemic on children 01 Apr 2025 - Right to repeat a year should be considered by ministers, headteachers say 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson wants all schools open when Covid lockdown is relaxed 01 Apr 2025 - Covid infections remain high but stable 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-hit pupils 'should be allowed to repeat a year' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils flag concerns about 'excessive profits' at children's homes 01 Apr 2025 - Northampton dealings with football club ‘unlawful’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council Tax Tracker uncovers reluctance to make maximum rise 01 Apr 2025 - Council proposes 3.5% council tax rise despite deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: Social workers 'braced for tsunami of needs' after lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Children's mental health services in England 'unable to meet demand' 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic could impact children's mental health for years, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - LGA fears over government threats to slash grant 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: 'Virus going in right direction but not fast enough' 01 Apr 2025 - UK mayors urge Boris Johnson to commit to tougher air pollution targets 01 Apr 2025 - £1 million wasted on cycle-friendly road zones that councils abandoned 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England need post-Covid fund to tackle mental health decline, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in low Covid infection areas may open sooner, parents told 01 Apr 2025 - 'Poor decisions' to blame for UK death toll, scientists say 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish Government funding for councils falls short 01 Apr 2025 - Fury as long-awaited UK environment bill is delayed for third time 01 Apr 2025 - Government plans to turn England homes green 'in chaos' with debt and job losses 01 Apr 2025 - UK unemployment reaches four-year high in Covid-19 lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - County lines gangsters face longer jail terms under tough new sentencing rules 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Significant Brexit challenges’ weaken UK economy 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities' Covid-19 pressures 'set to deepen' 01 Apr 2025 - High air pollution linked to irreversible sight loss 01 Apr 2025 - Depression among children is at frightening levels, doctors warn 01 Apr 2025 - Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' 01 Apr 2025 - UK records lowest daily rise in coronavirus cases so far this year 01 Apr 2025 - Almost four in five of over-80s have received first dose of coronavirus vaccine but supply is 'tight', says Matt Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - Quarantine hotel plans set to be announced 01 Apr 2025 - Fears grow over hidden child abuse since start of pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Pressure cooker’ lockdown set to drive rising costs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils report nearly 5% dip in parking profits 01 Apr 2025 - Swathes of England's vital flood defences ‘almost useless’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cambridgeshire’s £24m education boost may not be enough for SEND pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Most job roles for youths not yet filled 01 Apr 2025 - councils to get £23m to encourage high-risk groups to have jab 01 Apr 2025 - Government must use 2021 to get levelling up back on track 01 Apr 2025 - Councils back postponement of May local elections 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic is 'levelling down' the South, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - English council chiefs back postponement of May local elections 01 Apr 2025 - UK variant 'may be more deadly' 01 Apr 2025 - County’s leaders present legal solution to let remote meetings continue 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘in driving seat’ over shared prosperity fund, Jenrick insists 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick ‘made arguments within government’ to delay local elections 01 Apr 2025 - Council shifts £11m of land to housing account 01 Apr 2025 - Council finances a ‘significant risk' to the Treasury 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors raise questions over council transparency 01 Apr 2025 - UK borrowing hits highest December level on record 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face legal challenges against pop-up cycle lanes and road closures introduced during Covid-19 pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Government finances at 'significant risk' from debt-laden councils due to Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson raises fears of lockdown in England continuing into summertime 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers to discuss £500 Covid payment to boost self-isolation rates 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say 01 Apr 2025 - Record 343,000 people in UK receive Covid vaccine in one day 01 Apr 2025 - Oxford scientists preparing new vaccine versions to combat emerging Covid strains 01 Apr 2025 - Rollout of daily testing of close contacts paused in English schools 01 Apr 2025 - High Court deals blow to expansion of cycle lanes and wider pavements 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham plans £100m asset sale 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to update their Local Plans 01 Apr 2025 - New homes will need to reduce emissions by at least 75% by 2025 01 Apr 2025 - Inquiry launched into role of local authority pension funds in fighting climate change 01 Apr 2025 - UK cities and towns hardest hit by COVID-19 likely to recover fastest, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Government greenlights councils’ ambitious zero carbon housing plans 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon ordered to hold May mayoral referendum 01 Apr 2025 - London chief takes on national vaccines role 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of living up despite Covid Christmas curbs 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-related deaths in care homes in England jump by 46% 01 Apr 2025 - Schools might not all reopen at the same time across England, suggests Dr Jenny Harries 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over coronavirus vaccine supplies as rate drops 01 Apr 2025 - £148m to target county lines drug gangs and treat addiction 01 Apr 2025 - Spelthorne commercial income allows council tax freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury minister warns against tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit deal ‘could impact UK credit rating’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils told to visit every supermarket as Covid enforcement ramps up 01 Apr 2025 - Casey accuses government of ‘systemic failure’ over no recourse to public funds 01 Apr 2025 - Return of free school meals voucher scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Babies’ needs overlooked in COVID response 01 Apr 2025 - Forget local government, the whole country needs a fair funding review 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 living standards hit ‘ahead, rather than behind us’, think tank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Former housing association chair named new MHCLG minister 01 Apr 2025 - £120m care staff funding branded ‘gesture politics’ 01 Apr 2025 - Call for inquiry into COVID’s 'devastating' impact on children 01 Apr 2025 - £269m given to local authorities for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury in property tax rethink 01 Apr 2025 - Councils raked in £7.3m from rubbish-tip 'tax' last year amid fly-tipping fears 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for Universal Credit cut to be scrapped - but majority of Tory MPs abstain 01 Apr 2025 - Fewer UK children 'school ready' after Covid nursery closures 01 Apr 2025 - One in four UK young people have felt 'unable to cope' in pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Call to prioritise minority ethnic groups for Covid vaccines 01 Apr 2025 - As many as six in 10 care home residents in England still awaiting Covid jab 01 Apr 2025 - Covid jabs diverted to over-80s in vaccination blackspots 01 Apr 2025 - London chief to leave after 17 years 01 Apr 2025 - £120m care staff funding branded ‘gesture politics’ 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick accused of starting ‘culture war’ with new statues law 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit: Labour presses PM for action ahead of benefit vote 01 Apr 2025 - Green belt at risk from ‘wrong ideas about cities’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Far too many turned away’: Domestic abuse victims left with nowhere to go as services struggle in pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Make May elections in England more Covid-safe, Labour urges 01 Apr 2025 - Free fast broadband offered in UK to support home schooling 01 Apr 2025 - 24-hour vaccination sites to be piloted in London before end of January 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccination rollout begins for over-70s in England 01 Apr 2025 - Second Covid-19 lockdown hurts UK GDP 01 Apr 2025 - TfN’s budget cuts to ‘threaten levelling-up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils making the most cash from parking fines named 01 Apr 2025 - Low-paid shun Covid tests because the cost of self-isolating is too high 01 Apr 2025 - Councils losing tens of millions of pounds supporting businesses through pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - All over 18s could have vaccine by 'end of June' 01 Apr 2025 - Doctors told to throw away leftover Covid vaccines rather than giving second doses 01 Apr 2025 - UK to face delay in delivery of Pfizer Covid vaccine 01 Apr 2025 - UK shuts travel corridors and requires negative Covid tests to enter 01 Apr 2025 - School closures could wipe out a decade of progress for less privileged pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Public could force councils to sell off vacant land and buildings under proposed 'right to regenerate' law 01 Apr 2025 - UK population 'in biggest fall since Second World War' 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 200,000 patients now waiting at least a year for routine NHS operations 01 Apr 2025 - Regulator refuses to approve mass daily Covid testing at English schools 01 Apr 2025 - 'Shocking' care home Covid outbreaks at levels not seen since first peak 01 Apr 2025 - Marcus Rashford and top chefs demand free school meals review 01 Apr 2025 - Social care directors warn of 'exhausted' workforce 01 Apr 2025 - High Street chemists start vaccinations in England 01 Apr 2025 - NHS orders rapid acceleration of care home Covid vaccinations 01 Apr 2025 - Covid hospital patients can be discharged to care homes without a test, say guidelines sent to providers 01 Apr 2025 - 'High bar' for postponing local elections in England, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England may not reopen after February half-term, Boris Johnson suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Mental Health Act reforms aim to tackle high rate of black people sectioned 01 Apr 2025 - The mental health effects of Covid will last for a decade 01 Apr 2025 - Council disputes MP allegations on Covid-19 grants 01 Apr 2025 - Extra cash made available for self isolation support 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Dismay’ over continuing lack of detail on UKSPF 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for mental health services funding 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for restoration of local welfare funding 01 Apr 2025 - Tax reforms 'would raise more than wealth tax' 01 Apr 2025 - Khan proposes 9.5% rise in GLA precept 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus (COVID-19): emergency funding for local government in 2020 to 2021 and additional support in 2021 to 2022 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus (COVID-19): emergency funding for local government in 2020 to 2021 and additional support in 2021 to 2022 01 Apr 2025 - Labour’s constitution review would put local government on firm footing 01 Apr 2025 - LGA steps up lobbying over council tax and £2.3bn Covid funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Enough children living in temporary housing to fill 450 primary schools 01 Apr 2025 - Free school meals: Minister demands 'urgent improvement' 01 Apr 2025 - Laptops for all pupils at only one in ten schools 01 Apr 2025 - Retail giants clamp down in bid to halt coronavirus growth 01 Apr 2025 - Hospital patients to be sent to hotels to free up beds for critical Covid-19 cases 01 Apr 2025 - High Court to hear four exit pay cap legal challenges 01 Apr 2025 - Starmer demands halt to ‘absurd’ council tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over resource implications of rapid community testing scale up 01 Apr 2025 - Council defies government by closing nurseries 01 Apr 2025 - Councils asked to 'redouble efforts' on rough sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should have key role in getting jabs to the vulnerable, says public health chief 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities to roll out asymptomatic testing 01 Apr 2025 - Care home bosses ‘jumping ahead of elderly’ for Covid vaccine 01 Apr 2025 - New exercise restrictions in England 'under active consideration' 01 Apr 2025 - 2.6 million jabs given to 2.3 million people - but UK is warned vaccine 'not a free pass' to ignore rules 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of side-lining millions in sugar tax revenue pledged for children’s health projects 01 Apr 2025 - More fines expected for lockdown breaches as home secretary warns of tighter enforcement 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccinations begin at seven mass jab centres which have opened today 01 Apr 2025 - Covid crisis will force councils to make ‘deep cuts’ to services to plug funding shortfall of up to £2.2bn 01 Apr 2025 - Test and trace needs radical overhaul to prevent further Covid surges in England – experts 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes at risk of being overwhelmed again as outbreaks triple 01 Apr 2025 - Protect family incomes, Starmer urges ministers Published1 hour ago 01 Apr 2025 - High turnout leaves schools struggling in lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of small firms 'set to close' 01 Apr 2025 - Cladding flat owners told not to talk to press 01 Apr 2025 - Intervention threat over 'unwise' investments 01 Apr 2025 - Worcestershire Council aim to plug £26m gap 01 Apr 2025 - County may be forced to limit school places during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - English schools struggle with demand for key worker places 01 Apr 2025 - People drank more alcohol, exercised less and ate less healthily during first lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Park services ‘need £500m funding boost’ 01 Apr 2025 - Property searches face delays from underfunded councils 01 Apr 2025 - Covid: arrivals to UK will need to show a negative test before entry 01 Apr 2025 - Eviction ban extended days before it was due to end 01 Apr 2025 - The Brexit deal: financial implications for local government 01 Apr 2025 - Council rejects social care precept rise 01 Apr 2025 - Closure of leisure centres to cost £7.25m in missed health savings 01 Apr 2025 - Sadiq Khan proposes 9.5% council tax increase 01 Apr 2025 - Spending watchdog highlights 'litany of failures' on superfast broadband 01 Apr 2025 - Union calls for nurseries to be closed during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - No third section 114 for Croydon this year 01 Apr 2025 - Covid has exacerbated inequalities 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister commits to uplift in public sector jobs 01 Apr 2025 - OECD says public will not accept austerity post-Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - Former CIPFA presidents receive New Year honours 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing from PWLB jumps following rate cut 01 Apr 2025 - Major incidents over COVID declared 01 Apr 2025 - Call for ‘urgent clarity’ on elections 01 Apr 2025 - Councils grapple with multi-million pound budget deficits 01 Apr 2025 - Exit pay cap judicial review granted 01 Apr 2025 - Council backs calls for new national lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Leader of England’s largest council calls for Government to “act now” 01 Apr 2025 - High streets across England secure cash boost for regeneration 01 Apr 2025 - Councils resist pressure to reopen schools 01 Apr 2025 - New Year Honours awarded to local government workers 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils without laptops can still go to school in England lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of children sent to unregulated care homes amid Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak’s business Covid support is a £4bn ‘sticking plaster’

2020

01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall urged to cut council workload as pressures hit crisis point 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England 'will have less than a third of Covid costs met by government' 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick announces £310m to tackle homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ core funding per resident set to drop below 2015-16 levels 01 Apr 2025 - Babies ‘largely invisible’ in pandemic response 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 40,000 retailers in UK in financial straits before tougher Covid rules 01 Apr 2025 - Offices share £481m rebate after interim business rates ruling 01 Apr 2025 - More than half of local authorities expect childcare providers to close when coronavirus support ends 01 Apr 2025 - 840,000 private tenants in England and Wales could be behind on rent 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England 'will have less than a third of Covid costs met by government' 01 Apr 2025 - January school closures considered as fears grow over new Covid strain's spread among children 01 Apr 2025 - 1,500 lorries stuck in Kent as UK and France aim to restart freight 01 Apr 2025 - England set for New Year lockdown as coronavirus variant spreads across UK 01 Apr 2025 - Questions over settlement boost 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs pressure government to overhaul ‘regressive’ council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Government reduces New Homes Bonus 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers won't have to play role in coronavirus testing in schools, minister confirms 01 Apr 2025 - Families face council tax rise next year after local authorities given green light for hike 01 Apr 2025 - Redmond proposal for oversight body rejected 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak extends furlough and loans schemes to bolster economy 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to break down weekly vaccine figures by local authority 01 Apr 2025 - Kent reopens doors to UASC 01 Apr 2025 - Testing rolled out to areas at ‘significant risk’ of moving into Tier 3 01 Apr 2025 - Interim exit cap guidance allows relaxation on ‘compassionate’ grounds 01 Apr 2025 - DfE had ‘no idea’ of latest Covid surge in London schools clash 01 Apr 2025 - Revisions to algorithm and housing funding to shift focus away from south east 01 Apr 2025 - Government caught out ‘reshuffling old money into new pots’ 01 Apr 2025 - The year Covid-19 shook local government finances 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face extra data burden on commercial property 01 Apr 2025 - For the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Less than half of UK population could be vaccinated in 2021, spending watchdog says 01 Apr 2025 - London councils defy government and offer schools option to close amid spiralling cases 01 Apr 2025 - Relaxation of UK Christmas rules 'unlikely to change' 01 Apr 2025 - Tory shires escape housebuilding bonanza after new U-turn from Robert Jenrick 01 Apr 2025 - Council finance officers nip £1.5m fraud in the bud 01 Apr 2025 - Leeds withdraws capitalisation application 01 Apr 2025 - Spelthorne commercial income set to rise despite Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns as £100m fund for ailing leisure providers opens 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders wrestle with ‘cowardly’ 5% council tax expectation 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry to improve funding delivery 01 Apr 2025 - PSAA to consider 'whopping' 120% audit fee hike 01 Apr 2025 - Vaccinating entire UK population could take a year, scientists warn 01 Apr 2025 - Hospitality worst-hit as unemployment rises again 01 Apr 2025 - 'New variant' of coronavirus identified in UK, health secretary says 01 Apr 2025 - London to move into tier 3 as infections rise 01 Apr 2025 - Deaths of homeless hit new record in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Government starts legal proceedings against council over school closures 01 Apr 2025 - Promise of UK care home visits is not being kept to, warns charity 01 Apr 2025 - Border improvements costs rise by £173m 01 Apr 2025 - UK economic growth continues to slow 01 Apr 2025 - Government to shake up taxes on sharing economy 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA proposes sector-wide audit report 01 Apr 2025 - EU-UK trade deal still 'significant possibility' but 'won't come at any price', says Oliver Dowden 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils face mass testing as tier 3 Covid measures loom in London 01 Apr 2025 - Number of children adopted from care in England drops for fifth year running 01 Apr 2025 - Test And Trace Private Sector Call Handlers Worked Just 1% Of Their Paid Time 01 Apr 2025 - Backlash over government's overhaul of English planning system 01 Apr 2025 - England’s councils face austerity by stealth 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 2m children in UK went short of food in 2020, report suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Stagecoach shares rise despite 90% drop in profits 01 Apr 2025 - Councils can’t afford to pay £500 self-isolation grant 01 Apr 2025 - One in ten councillors sign letter calling for rethink of planning reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Remote communities left isolated as councils cut support for buses and journeys fall by almost 100m in a decade 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool mayor arrested in bribery probe 01 Apr 2025 - Leaked report warns of future section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 5% of councils risk ‘financial failure’ under hard Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Regional recovery needs support to be tailored, says Lloyds 01 Apr 2025 - Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine could be airlifted to UK if Brexit trade talks collapse 01 Apr 2025 - First person receives Pfizer jab in UK 01 Apr 2025 - Library spending drops by £20m 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic complications hit audit performance 01 Apr 2025 - Care home vaccinations to start 'within two weeks' 01 Apr 2025 - Doubts over ‘botched’ population data used to justify housebuilding 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak's cuts 'risk plunging more than 3 million into poverty' 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap rapid Covid tests in England's care homes, experts urge 01 Apr 2025 - UK aims to cut emissions by 68% by end of 2030 01 Apr 2025 - Care home staff front of line as vaccine shelved for hospital workers 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon issues second section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of 'jumping gun' on England care home visits 01 Apr 2025 - Children missing from care ‘abandoned’ to county lines drug gangs 01 Apr 2025 - Extra measures 'to ensure fair exams next summer' 01 Apr 2025 - Shoppers return to stores under England's new tier system 01 Apr 2025 - 'Serious disruption' risk at Channel post-transition period 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh pubs and restaurants banned from selling alcohol and face 6pm curfew 01 Apr 2025 - UK food bank trust says half of users repaying universal credit debts 01 Apr 2025 - Generation of poorer children may never recover from ‘cruel blow’ of pandemic, warns children’s commissioner 01 Apr 2025 - NHS Covid-19 app to gain self-isolation payments 01 Apr 2025 - People who refuse to get vaccine could be denied entry to venues, minister suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Sheffield City Council warns care home providers not to use government's rapid tests over doubts about accuracy 01 Apr 2025 - Army cannot be drafted in for Covid testing across country, warns General 01 Apr 2025 - Mass Covid testing to be rolled out to local authorities in tier 3 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to vote on tougher tiers for England 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children in lockdown 'national concern' 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector urged to be open about role in decision-making 01 Apr 2025 - [OPINION] Boris Johnson's 'mutant' planning algorithm could scar England for ever 01 Apr 2025 - Families condemn ‘imprisonment’ of care home residents 01 Apr 2025 - Inspectors moving between Covid-hit England care homes without tests 01 Apr 2025 - Vitamin D to be sent to three million clinically vulnerable people to help protect against Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - UK's R number falls to lowest level since August as daily infections decline 01 Apr 2025 - Mass testing a 'distraction' from vaccine rollout - health leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Hospitals in England told to prepare for Covid vaccine rollout in 10 days' time 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson says measures will bring clarity 01 Apr 2025 - Small traders across the UK set to lose more than £1bn without Christmas markets 01 Apr 2025 - NHS to pilot 'game-changing' blood test that could detect 50 types of cancer 01 Apr 2025 - UK regulator to assess Oxford coronavirus vaccine in 'first step' towards roll-out 01 Apr 2025 - We must value and fund social care as much as the NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Don’t hug granny, Chris Whitty warns in plea for a cautious Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax could rise by up to 5% next April as ministers give green light for hikes 01 Apr 2025 - Social care funding falls 'alarmingly short' - council directors 01 Apr 2025 - Unpaid carers have saved the UK £135bn during the pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Greater spending power is far from what’s needed to restore budgets 01 Apr 2025 - DPHs ‘kicked in teeth’ by Sunak’s funding freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Reform of inflation measure will hit LGPS investment returns 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak recycles money for green transport 01 Apr 2025 - NHS receives £3bn funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - £2.9bn 'restart programme to help unemployed' 01 Apr 2025 - Infrastructure gets pride of place 01 Apr 2025 - UKSPF to reach £1.5bn a year 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor warns of 'lasting' damage to UK economy 01 Apr 2025 - Caution urged over household mixing 01 Apr 2025 - Unemployed predicted to rise to 2.6 million 01 Apr 2025 - County to upgrade chief officer role to deal with post-pandemic challenges 01 Apr 2025 - DfE urged to announce plans for January student return amid Covid spike fears 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor promises 4.5% spending power increase 01 Apr 2025 - Special educational needs support 'offered after exclusion' 01 Apr 2025 - [OPINION] By freezing pay and benefits, Sunak will be levelling down, not up 01 Apr 2025 - PM sets out 'tougher' post-lockdown tiers for England 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: 'Lack of transparency' over Covid-19 procurement 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit ‘could hurt fraud prevention’ 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 schemes' fraud risk 'considerable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Number of unemployed people in UK over 50 rises by third, figures suggest 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands could be sent to their deaths because of ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders imposed by care homes 01 Apr 2025 - End in sight for contact isolation as repeat testing trial gets under way 01 Apr 2025 - Education of poorest pupils in England and Wales 'suffers most during Covid isolation' 01 Apr 2025 - Covid fears prompt 38% rise in parents home educating 01 Apr 2025 - Oxford vaccine is up to 90% effective in preventing coronavirus, tests show 01 Apr 2025 - Christmas get-together plan backed by UK nations 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to unveil post-English lockdown plans 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak says Spending Review will not spell austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to promise £150m extra spending on homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Rough sleepers could be forced to stay out in the cold to avoid Covid, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Negative press forces council into borrowing strategy switch 01 Apr 2025 - The opportunities provided by the comprehensive spending review 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing record accompanied by huge interest fall 01 Apr 2025 - Call to expand £500 grant for Covid self-isolators 01 Apr 2025 - Strengthened tier system for England after lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak signals tax rises in spring 01 Apr 2025 - We’ll have to cut vital services without £4bn help, say England’s councils 01 Apr 2025 - Backlash over chancellor's 'cruel' expected public sector pay freeze 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown working, insists Matt Hancock as cases start to flatten 01 Apr 2025 - Mass testing aims to cut quarantine for Covid contacts 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to reform anti-Northern spending bias 01 Apr 2025 - House building plummets by a third with developers blaming local authority planning delays more than the pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - UK setting up vaccine centres ready for rollout 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock forced to rethink MRP plan 01 Apr 2025 - Thurrock defends ‘potentially risky’ investment strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Outcry over public sector pay freeze rumours 01 Apr 2025 - Councils overwhelmed by asylum seekers as Home Office moves hundreds into hotels 01 Apr 2025 - NHS prepares dozens of Covid mass vaccination centres around England 01 Apr 2025 - Flu jab push as Covid vaccine roll-out planned 01 Apr 2025 - Priti Patel 'broke ministerial code with her behaviour towards staff' according to leaked bullying investigation and will get a written warning 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak mulls public sector pay freeze for millions 01 Apr 2025 - Apprentice redundancy numbers rise 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities ‘braced for second wave of homelessness’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK care home bosses seek extra £500m for Christmas Covid measures 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of UK home care operators face going bust 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak's cash pledge to head off revolt 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Mood music’ signals bleak prospects for tax loss compensation 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of UK teachers have worked in schools with homeless pupils, finds survey 01 Apr 2025 - Post-Grenfell social housing reforms unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus deaths in England and Wales rise 40% in a week 01 Apr 2025 - England's 'inadequate' tier system 'did not contain the spread of coronavirus', say doctors 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on new petrol and diesel cars in UK from 2030 under PM's green plan 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish council creates energy joint venture 01 Apr 2025 - Government set to provide social care reform update 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate retention for freeport councils 01 Apr 2025 - Large drop in council office need predicted 01 Apr 2025 - Sir Tony Redmond on local authority audit 01 Apr 2025 - LGA launches Croydon disciplinary probe 01 Apr 2025 - Asylum seekers forced to travel miles to sign on with Home Office during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Councils risk killing off the high street after hiking parking charges to bring in extra cash 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool mass-testing finds 700 cases with no symptoms 01 Apr 2025 - UK orders five million doses of new Moderna jab by spring next year 01 Apr 2025 - England tier system may need strengthening - government adviser 01 Apr 2025 - Bosses urge ministers to protect nursing centres against the crippling cost of legal claims... just like the NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Social housing landlords in England face checks on tenants' satisfaction 01 Apr 2025 - Waiting list for council homes in England ‘will double to 2 million’ 01 Apr 2025 - Do the right thing: How I issued a section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - UK emission targets won't be reached by 2050, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Older people more likely to break lockdown rules than young, ONS finds 01 Apr 2025 - Family of care home residents to get regular Covid tests to allow visits 01 Apr 2025 - R number for UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2 01 Apr 2025 - Children more likely to be infected in second wave 01 Apr 2025 - Scientists warn of Christmas Covid surge if tier system returns 01 Apr 2025 - Local government must be able to lead shoulder-to-shoulder with NHS on COVID-19 vaccination drive 01 Apr 2025 - Governments urged to go beyond net zero climate targets 01 Apr 2025 - Local councils advised to push ahead with traffic reduction schemes 01 Apr 2025 - UK prepared for wrong sort of pandemic, says former chief medical officer 01 Apr 2025 - North West sees job ads surge while London lags 01 Apr 2025 - Retail footfall lowest since the spring 01 Apr 2025 - Learning disability death rates 'six times higher' 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of 'invisible' children falling through gaps, warn peers 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of county councils to make cuts next year 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to consider capital gains tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - UK GDP increases by record 15.5% 01 Apr 2025 - Council investment strategy ‘deeply concerns’ opposition leader 01 Apr 2025 - Tory council leaders warn of severe cuts in England 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon Council bans new spending under Section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - Kickstart jobs scheme creates 19,000 work placements 01 Apr 2025 - York, Salford, Durham and Swale appoint to top job 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to push for devo ‘baseline’ without need for reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Towns fund selection process ‘risks civil service reputation’ 01 Apr 2025 - NHS urged to harness local government partners in vaccine rollout 01 Apr 2025 - TfL set to remain dependent on government support 01 Apr 2025 - Government to launch ‘green bond’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority capital receipts fall by 30% 01 Apr 2025 - PSAA proposes 25% increase in audit variation rates 01 Apr 2025 - Tories slammed for lack of progress on environment promises made nine years ago 01 Apr 2025 - £3.6bn struggling English towns fund 'not impartial', say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs form group to oppose future lockdowns 01 Apr 2025 - UK unemployment rate continues to surge 01 Apr 2025 - Government ponders simplified regional lockdown system 01 Apr 2025 - Northern England 'worst hit' by pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Mass testing for 67 local areas in England 01 Apr 2025 - NHS told to prepare for Covid mass vaccinations from December 1 01 Apr 2025 - Universities to oversee student exodus for Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - Children in care 'failed' while some providers 'make millions' 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson has “lost interest” in devolution of power in England, says Lord Heseltine 01 Apr 2025 - UK vaccines chief Kate Bingham expected to leave post at end of year 01 Apr 2025 - Adult day care centres denied access to ‘vital’ coronavirus testing 01 Apr 2025 - UK set to cut Covid self-isolation to 10 days after Cummings and Whitty row 01 Apr 2025 - NHS ready for Pfizer roll-out, says Matt Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of rapid COVID-19 tests to be sent to local authorities this week 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson gives cautious welcome to COVID-19 vaccine news 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork 01 Apr 2025 - Tens of thousands made homeless despite UK ban on evictions during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - EU and UK negotiators resume trade talks in London 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of ventilator supplies 'hit' disabled people 01 Apr 2025 - UK's nuclear future to be decided at key meeting 01 Apr 2025 - NSPCC warns of lockdown's toll on children's mental health 01 Apr 2025 - Number of people seeking help for suicidal thoughts has tripled since lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Nursing shortage warning as winter looms 01 Apr 2025 - Record weekly Covid cases in England but new infections 'stabilise' 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown 'opportunity' to fix England's roads 01 Apr 2025 - Care home residents face postcode lottery over face-to-face visits 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool testing trial sites doubled after queues on first day 01 Apr 2025 - Test and trace needs radical reform in England, health experts say 01 Apr 2025 - Rashford ‘proud’ after Government U-turn on free school meals at Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - Holyrood announces £15m for young people with mental health issues 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for clear lockdown exit strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick confirms rapid review into Nottingham City Council 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to appoint 'Food Champion' 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool to pilot mass coronavirus testing 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit and Covid-19 set to hit HMRC balance sheet 01 Apr 2025 - Council to ‘fundamentally’ review services 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS records negative cashflow position 01 Apr 2025 - Rural homelessness doubles in past two years, campaigners warn 01 Apr 2025 - Reorganisation hopes renewed for counties 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey looks to future with £20m LED conversion 01 Apr 2025 - Cities issue stark finance warning 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to invest £240m in early years provision 01 Apr 2025 - Frustrated public health directors slam NHS Test & Trace 01 Apr 2025 - Keeping schools open could lead to longer lockdown, scientist warns 01 Apr 2025 - Sadiq Khan warns Londoners council tax could have to rise as TfL secures £1.8bn bailout 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness charities call for second Everyone In scheme in England 01 Apr 2025 - Poorest pupils can enrol for catch-up tuition 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to address Covid-19 backlogs 01 Apr 2025 - Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income 01 Apr 2025 - Fears Covid could scupper EU trade deal talks 01 Apr 2025 - Who can go back on to furlough? 01 Apr 2025 - Growing numbers of 'newly hungry' forced to use UK food banks 01 Apr 2025 - English lockdown may last beyond 2 Dec, says Gove 01 Apr 2025 - IMF urges government to keep up pandemic spending 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax support bill to exceed funding 01 Apr 2025 - One in six childcare providers in England may close by Christmas 01 Apr 2025 - Most public sector audits by Grant Thornton fall below standard, watchdog finds 01 Apr 2025 - ONS finds 2m people still on furlough days before scheme ends 01 Apr 2025 - Increase public spending to tackle Covid second wave, IMF tells UK 01 Apr 2025 - Government won't cut 300,000 housing target - Robert Jenrick 01 Apr 2025 - Contacts reached by NHS test and trace system stays stuck at record low 01 Apr 2025 - West Yorkshire to go into tier 3 from Monday 01 Apr 2025 - Record demand for council tax support 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish GDP drops by 19.4% in second quarter 01 Apr 2025 - Spelthorne councillors seize greater investment oversight 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate appeals average ‘1,000 per day’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review Croydon governance 01 Apr 2025 - Minister attempts to clear up exit cap confusion 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly half of councils in Great Britain use algorithms to help make claims decisions 01 Apr 2025 - Marcus Rashford school meals petition passes 1m signatures 01 Apr 2025 - Planners will be able to build estates of 50 homes without setting aside any for affordable housing, charities warn 01 Apr 2025 - UK only buying enough vaccines to protect the most vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - 10% of England's population could be tested for Covid-19 every week 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 100,000 catching virus every day - study 01 Apr 2025 - Covid is blamed for 5.5% slump in bus passenger journeys to 4.07billion across England over 12 months, DfT data shows 01 Apr 2025 - Spelthorne councillors seize greater investment oversight 01 Apr 2025 - PM under pressure to toughen restrictions after highest death toll since May 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak says government has 'provided resources' 01 Apr 2025 - Post-furlough unemployment 'hits young and ethnic minorities' 01 Apr 2025 - toddlers from UK's poorest families 'hit hardest by lockdown' 01 Apr 2025 - Rural homelessness in England rises by 115% in past two years 01 Apr 2025 - Council accused of ‘corporate blindness' 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury faces legal warning on exit payments 01 Apr 2025 - Inquiry launched into local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - Council seeks approval on £12.5m housing scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Streamline local government under plans to save £30bn a year, think tank argues 01 Apr 2025 - Household recycling 'soared' during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to appoint chief foresight officers 01 Apr 2025 - New guidance to prevent care leavers becoming homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Councils forced to ‘prop up’ bus operators during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Without a ‘generous’ settlement the risk of section 114s looms large 01 Apr 2025 - Council apologises following ‘serious’ issues with its financial situation 01 Apr 2025 - The plight of the bus network outside London 01 Apr 2025 - £63m hardship fund was not meant to pay for free school meals 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of facemasks to rise as Treasury scraps VAT exemption on PPE 01 Apr 2025 - 14-day quarantine for Covid contacts could be reduced 01 Apr 2025 - Councils gain COVID enforcement powers 01 Apr 2025 - Unions pile on pressure over exit pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Seven areas across England set to receive nearly £180m investment 01 Apr 2025 - High court condemns lack of provisions in UK for suicidal teenager 01 Apr 2025 - Clean air could have saved 6,000 lives from Covid, experts claim 01 Apr 2025 - Covid has thrived on racial discrimination, says Baroness Doreen Lawrence 01 Apr 2025 - Northern Tory MPs demand 'roadmap out of lockdown' in letter to Boris Johnson 01 Apr 2025 - Nottingham and surrounding areas to move into Tier 3 this week - council bosses 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson says councils can use money from fund which has already run out 01 Apr 2025 - What Covid-19 means for the future of local government 01 Apr 2025 - ‘If we don’t do something we’ll be blighted for years’ – one borough’s recovery plans 01 Apr 2025 - Nothing left of £63m for free school meals 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors issue public interest report over Croydon’s financial failures 01 Apr 2025 - Only six in ten pupils are getting full education despite schools reopening, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak’s new youth job scheme attacked as ‘sticking plaster’ that will fail to prevent mass unemployment 01 Apr 2025 - 'Generation Covid' hit hard by the pandemic, research reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Senior Conservative MP and Johnson ally calls for Dido Harding to be axed from Test and Trace role 01 Apr 2025 - NHS denies elderly people were refused care during early Covid 01 Apr 2025 - UK records 19,790 more COVID-19 cases and 151 further deaths 01 Apr 2025 - More cash for poorest as PM seeks end to school meals row 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 schemes' fraud ‘risk considerable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit ‘could hurt fraud prevention’ 01 Apr 2025 - Returns show £900m drop in council reserves last year 01 Apr 2025 - Pandemic caused ‘incredible damage’ to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to receive £100m leisure centre fund 01 Apr 2025 - One in six children aged 5-16 in England 'likely to have a mental disorder' 01 Apr 2025 - New government Covid scheme to pay up to half of wages 01 Apr 2025 - England and Wales begin tougher rules for millions 01 Apr 2025 - People told to self-isolate stopped from claiming £500 grant by flaw in contact tracing app 01 Apr 2025 - Furlough fraudsters 'may have stolen more than £3bn' 01 Apr 2025 - Hull and East Riding set out on path to form mayoral combined authority 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn of test and trace ‘missed opportunity’ 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review to conclude late November 01 Apr 2025 - Investment needed in data analysis skills, conference hears 01 Apr 2025 - NHS urged not to waste Covid-19 investment 01 Apr 2025 - Councils scoop £50m after VAT ruling 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson’s no-deal Brexit claim is a "delusion", says Hammond 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman slams Plymouth's interest rate swap move 01 Apr 2025 - London the worst city in Europe for health costs from air pollution 01 Apr 2025 - Sadiq Khan condemns 'draconian' conditions of TfL rescue 01 Apr 2025 - UK borrowing jumps in September as Covid support continues 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils sent home in half of England's secondary schools 01 Apr 2025 - Carers 'on the brink' as they fear further Covid-19 restrictions during winter 01 Apr 2025 - Failure to act on Covid 'circuit breaker' will cost billions – Labour 01 Apr 2025 - UK posts highest daily COVID deaths since June and more than 21,000 new cases 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock defends 'fair' tier 3 offer for Greater Manchester 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson at odds over spending after Covid hits public finances 01 Apr 2025 - Labour backs Marcus Rashford campaign 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus emergency has exposed huge gap between Westminster and local government before tier three fight 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers search for lost children of Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Traffic jams caused by badly designed cycle lanes put funding at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson tells UK: prepare for a no-deal Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Higher ethnic death risk 'not linked to health' 01 Apr 2025 - Police granted access to details of people told to self-isolate by Test and Trace 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire Councils respond to Tier 3 restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - UK credit rating downgraded 01 Apr 2025 - UK facing 'tough' Christmas, Sage scientist warns 01 Apr 2025 - Fines for not isolating may stop people getting tested 01 Apr 2025 - SAGE expert says two-week lockdowns at breaks could disrupt coronavirus spread before vaccine is developed 01 Apr 2025 - Plastic to be saved from landfill by revolutionary recycling plants 01 Apr 2025 - Marcus Rashford vows to keep up free meals fight after No 10 refusal 01 Apr 2025 - Care home chain denies it will let staff work in multiple homes after furious families leaked letter hinting group would defy government rules 01 Apr 2025 - England's 'fragile' care sector needs immediate reform, says regulator 01 Apr 2025 - Five-person team gets £25k a day to work on Test and Trace system 01 Apr 2025 - London, Essex, York and other areas moving to Tier 2 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish Government allocates £52.6m for bus services 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh care IT system ‘late and over budget’ 01 Apr 2025 - City region launches £10m emergency Covid-19 fund 01 Apr 2025 - Manchester funding gap for 2021-22 could hit £135m 01 Apr 2025 - OECD says UK structural deficit ‘likely’ 01 Apr 2025 - What has gone wrong with England's Covid test-and-trace system? 01 Apr 2025 - Two-week circuit breaker 'may halve deaths', report says 01 Apr 2025 - New Covid lockdown would inflict terrible harm 01 Apr 2025 - Child poverty increases in England across the north and Midlands 01 Apr 2025 - IMF warns of long road to recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes in England to name relatives as key workers to allow visits 01 Apr 2025 - Pressure grows on PM for half-term lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Councils must abandon narrow-mindedness over who can adopt children 01 Apr 2025 - 'Gold' summit to discuss raising alert level for Greater Manchester and Lancashire 01 Apr 2025 - BoE writes to banks over negative rates readiness 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh auditor issues Covid-19 fraud warning 01 Apr 2025 - Tax rises needed to prevent ‘spiralling debt’ 01 Apr 2025 - IFS urges delay to cuts and tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick open to reorg election delay requests as he advocates unitary alternatives 01 Apr 2025 - Tax rises of more than £40bn a year 'all but inevitable' 01 Apr 2025 - Police in parts of Britain are 80 times more likely to hand out coronavirus penalties than others 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown rules in high-risk areas may need to 'go even further', minister warns 01 Apr 2025 - Regional leaders criticise 'disappointing' Tier 2 restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Sage scientists called for short lockdown weeks ago 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset Council braces for £43m overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Fears for Northants ‘managerial vacuum’ as officers seek early exit 01 Apr 2025 - AA highlights local road spend disparity 01 Apr 2025 - Tier-three Liverpool City Region to receive £8 per head funding 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick invites three counties to submit reorganisation proposals 01 Apr 2025 - MP refuses to resign after travelling hundreds of miles with coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - How council cuts to public conveniences is keeping thousands of Britons stuck at home out of fear of being caught short 01 Apr 2025 - Doctors call for mandatory masks in offices and outdoors in new wish list 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could spend £1.7bn over budget by March as costs rise 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers to have veto on statue removals 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in number of UK children applying for free school meals 01 Apr 2025 - Shoppers aid growth but slowdown ahead, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Dire outlook as experts predict 1.5million people are set to lose their jobs before the end of the year 01 Apr 2025 - Mayors set to be given more test and trace powers 01 Apr 2025 - New local lockdown restrictions in England to be unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - UK GDP growth slows in August 01 Apr 2025 - Ratings agency issues warning over potential sector downgrade 01 Apr 2025 - Council denies investment strategy is unlawful 01 Apr 2025 - Aspects of welfare system ‘ripe for reform’ 01 Apr 2025 - New spending package allows council receipts to meet cost pressures. 01 Apr 2025 - Plymouth agrees interest rates swap 01 Apr 2025 - Full lockdown 'left country more vulnerable to another wave' of COVID-19, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - New restrictions for parts of England likely next week 01 Apr 2025 - UK youth unemployment 'set to triple to 80s levels' 01 Apr 2025 - Minister moves to head off political rows 01 Apr 2025 - Frustration grows over testing access 01 Apr 2025 - Current and former Tory party chairs blamed for devolution turmoil 01 Apr 2025 - Government 'likely' to miss full fibre broadband 2025 target 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warning on plan to relax developer rules 01 Apr 2025 - Top scientists call for herd immunity approach - as government's 'soft touch' criticised 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson hints at new 'magic of averages' social care system 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh quarantine considered for UK coronavirus hotspots 01 Apr 2025 - Lords defy government over refugee children's right to family reunion 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MP accuses Housing Secretary of `shocking betrayal´ over cladding crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Renting 'torture' as charity calls social housing provision 'woefully inadequate' 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030 01 Apr 2025 - Commons rebellions expected at votes on curfew and rule of six 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 500,000 redundancies planned since crisis began 01 Apr 2025 - New money for councils to help survivors 01 Apr 2025 - NHS staff struggle with burnout as they warn hospital bosses about looming second wave 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 8,000 missed COVID-19 cases still haven't had their contacts traced 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick predicts November spending review date as ‘challenging period’ looms 01 Apr 2025 - Local contact tracing roll out gathers pace despite lack of funding 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes policies violated human rights, says Amnesty 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Exhausted’ teachers warn they have no additional funding to handle Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - 'Winter of discontent' faces North, warns Andy Burnham 01 Apr 2025 - Less than half of the UK population could get vaccinated 01 Apr 2025 - Government launches £238m scheme for jobseekers 01 Apr 2025 - Leak reveals possible harsher three-tier England Covid plan 01 Apr 2025 - Things 'bumpy to Christmas and beyond' - PM 01 Apr 2025 - Confusion as exit cap voted through 01 Apr 2025 - Restrictions for England to be standardised into three tiers 01 Apr 2025 - Middlesbrough business mixing ban 'unacceptable' 01 Apr 2025 - Six areas added to England's COVID-19 watchlist 01 Apr 2025 - [Opinion] The government needs to invest £100bn in social infrastructure 01 Apr 2025 - North East devo deal back on the table 01 Apr 2025 - Call for more enforcement powers as Leese claims Covid restrictions ‘don’t work’ 01 Apr 2025 - Legalise e-scooters in UK as alternative to short car trips, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding in Cotswolds and Cumbria will soar under reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Fly-tipping 'became more acceptable in lockdown', MP says 01 Apr 2025 - Comprehensive Spending Review 'should outline £10bn funding' for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Restrictions for England to be standardised into three tiers 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 10 million Brits could need mental health support after the pandemic ends, charity says 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in pupils in England being home-schooled due to Covid fears, says Ofsted chief 01 Apr 2025 - More than a third of UK employers planning to make staff redundant 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-hit Merseyside economy 'may collapse without funding' 01 Apr 2025 - Growth in cases may be slowing in England 01 Apr 2025 - Extra £10bn needed to plug funding gap, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Stockpile will see us through winter, says PPE tsar 01 Apr 2025 - Additional financial statement could lead to extra costs 01 Apr 2025 - Testing in care homes getting 'worse not better' as delays leave elderly at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Care home coronavirus outbreaks cast doubt on official PHE data 01 Apr 2025 - The business rates backlash [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to increase children's services funding 01 Apr 2025 - Report calls for universal care service to transform UK economy 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Biggest ever rise in new cases recorded in the UK as deaths jump 01 Apr 2025 - Children 'must be the priority' in Covid-19 planning 01 Apr 2025 - Fund civic museums to help reawaken English city centres, bosses urge 01 Apr 2025 - Covid second wave hits recovery in UK high streets, data suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Under-25s ‘give up dream job hope’ in pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Public spending rise could last longer 01 Apr 2025 - Five new COVID-19 laws and fines that government slipped out 01 Apr 2025 - Scepticism mounts over devo white paper as ministers’ focus turns elsewhere 01 Apr 2025 - CCN chair accuses districts of ‘self-preservation’ in leaked letter to PM 01 Apr 2025 - County lines raids: 1,000 arrests and £1.2m drugs seized 01 Apr 2025 - UK transport boss urges ministers to get people back on trains and buses 01 Apr 2025 - Only one in five with symptoms self-isolates 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak set to unveil emergency jobs scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Male domestic abuse victims 'sleeping in cars and tents' 01 Apr 2025 - Flu jabs limited due to high demand 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of homeless lives saved due to lockdown measures, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - England and Wales get smartphone contact tracing for over-16s 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to announce new job protection plans 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Budget to be scrapped this year 01 Apr 2025 - County ‘not financially viable’ without significant extra funding 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry charts new course of bespoke support for hard hit councils 01 Apr 2025 - New oversight body 'dead in the water' without legislation 01 Apr 2025 - Ex Conservative local government minister attacks centre on COVID policy 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review will 'fail to offer long-term view' for sector 01 Apr 2025 - County unitaries join growing network 01 Apr 2025 - School bus drivers fearful of coronavirus infection risk 01 Apr 2025 - Experts warn of winter deaths in thousands and curbs for months 01 Apr 2025 - Pubs and restaurants in England to have 10pm closing times 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 pressures prompt £8bn drop in HMRC tax collection 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson considering national restrictions on social lives to curb infections 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England to ‘explore’ negative interest rates 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 30% of residents issued Court Summons over unpaid Council tax 01 Apr 2025 - UK cases hit four-month high for second day in a row 01 Apr 2025 - School funding ‘unfair to poor white pupils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils report £8m of Covid-19 grant fraud 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority calls on care home providers to accept COVID-positive hospital patients 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Tighter rules for care homes over winter second spike fears 01 Apr 2025 - Social care winter plan must address care home resident isolation - charities 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Hospitals told to clear beds for coronavirus spike in two weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in poorer areas lack catch-up cash 01 Apr 2025 - Sadiq Khan: London mayor calls for business rates holiday extension over fears of tens of thousands of job losses 01 Apr 2025 - Croydon to seek govt support as it battles to balance budget 01 Apr 2025 - Fears devo white paper will be watered down and further delayed 01 Apr 2025 - ADPH hits out at ‘moonshot’ ambitions while local resources fall ‘woefully short’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will receive £91.5m to house vulnerable people 01 Apr 2025 - Local government staff face ‘deep pension cuts’ if exit pay proposals are implemented 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Tighter national rules considered for England by government 01 Apr 2025 - Redmond review branded ‘a*** covering’ for finance directors 01 Apr 2025 - It’s the ultimate cliché – another delay to social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Care homes to get more than half a billion in extra funding to tackle COVID-19 during winter 01 Apr 2025 - Council confirms £60m loan for airport 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 25,000 teachers in England self-isolating due to Covid fears 01 Apr 2025 - Some care home staff in England not using PPE, find health inspectors 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Marshals 'unlikely' in England, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Restrictions expected in north-east England 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: PM blames 'colossal spike' in demand for test problems 01 Apr 2025 - No funding for PM’s Covid marshals 01 Apr 2025 - Extending furlough could pay for itself 01 Apr 2025 - School figures show 88% of pupils were back for start of term 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to extend eviction ban to avoid ‘cliff-edge’ for renters 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell-style cladding: MPs tell government ‘fix this now’ 01 Apr 2025 - Covid marshals unlikely to be coming to a street near you: Councils refuse to adopt scheme without funding, analysis reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Testing problems to be solved in weeks, says Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - Labour councillors press Boris Johnson to extend coronavirus furlough scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Young people hit as unemployment rate rises 01 Apr 2025 - Eat Out to Help Out drives UK inflation to five-year low 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to ‘adopt own state aid system’ 01 Apr 2025 - Peterborough seeks financial rescue package 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority peer borrowing continues to rise as rates drop 01 Apr 2025 - WHO: Local Restrictions should be Decided Locally 01 Apr 2025 - Ban on evictions of commercial property tenants set to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Unison: Care workers who made £4 an hour awarded in £100,000 court case 01 Apr 2025 - Care home bosses claim government is failing on coronavirus tests 01 Apr 2025 - People in England's 10 worst-hit Covid-19 hotspots unable to get tests 01 Apr 2025 - English addiction services on brink as number of higher-risk drinkers doubles 01 Apr 2025 - Social care collapse warning as Cavendish review nears completion 01 Apr 2025 - Catherine Staite: There has never been a worse time for reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall, Devon and Dorset could get combined authority with extra powers under ‘regional partnership’ plan 01 Apr 2025 - The road to madness: How eco-obsessed councils - under cover of Covid - have spent millions of YOUR money to shut roads across Britain 01 Apr 2025 - At least a dozen schools have sent home hundreds of pupils in the last week after just one pupil tested positive for Covid 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Concerns over increase in COVID-19 cases in care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Government to prioritise care home testing in coronavirus risk areas 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: 'Rule of six' comes into effect 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: 86% of doctors in England expect second wave within six months 01 Apr 2025 - Imposing tax increases too early could ‘stifle economy recovery’ 01 Apr 2025 - Millions at greatest risk from coronavirus may be told to stay at home again 01 Apr 2025 - Nationwide curfew 'obvious next step if new coronavirus restrictions fail' 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Another 3,497 cases confirmed in the UK over 24 hours 01 Apr 2025 - Leaked figures reveal scale of coronavirus test shortage 01 Apr 2025 - UK GDP climbs by 6.6% in July 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak gives himself option of postponing autumn Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Furlough 'must be extended' to avoid mass unemployment, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Reprieve for renters facing eviction in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warned of commercial property ‘disaster’ 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of people helped during pandemic but problem remains 01 Apr 2025 - Councils say they have no idea how they can pay for Boris Johnson's "Covid Marshals" 01 Apr 2025 - Sector responds to Redmond Review 01 Apr 2025 - No rise in workers in UK city centres despite back-to-office plea 01 Apr 2025 - police get tough with coronavirus rulebreakers 01 Apr 2025 - District councils must not be swallowed by faceless monoliths [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Government must ban councils placing vulnerable under-18s in unregulated homes 01 Apr 2025 - local authorities in England demand more control 01 Apr 2025 - Devo minister Simon Clarke quits 01 Apr 2025 - 300,000 redundancies planned in June and July 01 Apr 2025 - GPs recorded three times more suspected cases of COVID-19 than official figures 01 Apr 2025 - UK chief negotiator calls for 'realism' from EU 01 Apr 2025 - £11.5bn to help first-time buyers ‘will push out people who rent’ 01 Apr 2025 - City appoints interim chief 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of EU-born 'heroes' could be deported without government action, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Urgent action needed to open up care homes for visits, ministers told 01 Apr 2025 - 60% of population living with air pollution above legal limits 01 Apr 2025 - Civil servants 'must get back to offices quickly' 01 Apr 2025 - London could avoid parts of planning law 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus tests run out in north-east England as cases surge 01 Apr 2025 - Council-owned energy company to close 01 Apr 2025 - Care-home plague of loneliness is breaching loved ones’ human rights 01 Apr 2025 - Let councils get back to the business of building schools 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson's new homes scheme 'will harm Tory pledge to level up UK' 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 ‘could be endemic in deprived parts of England’ 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB borrowing dropped in August 01 Apr 2025 - More than 400 care home residents were dying a day at peak of pandemic, data shows 01 Apr 2025 - 'Significant gaps' in UK's border plans 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils with special needs 'forgotten' as English schools reopen 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children 'at risk' as councils cut services in Covid crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Covid grants boost local authority balances 01 Apr 2025 - Councils welcome decision not to ease restrictions in Trafford and Bolton 01 Apr 2025 - Government late to involve councils in coronavirus testing, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Burnham and Leese question new role for MPs in agreeing Covid restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet minister calls for tax cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Charity seeks judicial review on care home visit guidance 01 Apr 2025 - The feel good factor 01 Apr 2025 - Police put on a 'show of strength' against Extinction Rebellion as fortnight of disruption begins 01 Apr 2025 - Met pauses recruitment after hitting target of 1,300 extra officers 01 Apr 2025 - Health leaders warn Boris Johnson over axing of Public Health England 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged not to merge English district councils 01 Apr 2025 - Matt Hancock warns of extensive lockdowns 01 Apr 2025 - GB carbon emissions from electricity hit record low in lockdown – report 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness among prison leavers ‘will rise as Covid support ends’ 01 Apr 2025 - £500billion cost of ghost town Britain: Staggering hit to economy in next four years if workers stay away from office, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Robert Jenrick backs housing algorithm as Tory MPs fear threat to suburbs 01 Apr 2025 - Struggling schools must find cash for £216million bill to keep our kids safe 01 Apr 2025 - Court ruling sets ‘major precedent’ for rights of foster care workers 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling rates lower in England's poorest areas 01 Apr 2025 - Gap between rich and poor pupils in England 'grows by 46% in a year' 01 Apr 2025 - Test and trace success rate at record low after mystery glitch 01 Apr 2025 - Single unitary authorities could save up to £3bn over five years 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS funds to be given ability to review contribution rates 01 Apr 2025 - Warnings of 'ghost towns' if staff do not return to the office 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap fines for school non-attendance in England, say psychiatrists 01 Apr 2025 - Payment for people on low incomes who must self-isolate 01 Apr 2025 - Tory critics force ministers to review planning formula 01 Apr 2025 - Officials and ministers urged to trust local experts to tackle Covid-19 outbreaks 01 Apr 2025 - Ditch truancy fines, say doctors 01 Apr 2025 - Primary pupils' learning gap widens for first time since 2007 01 Apr 2025 - English city mayors say Covid rules keeping homeless off streets must be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Birmingham council to get power to shut businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Local government pay deal agreed 01 Apr 2025 - Bailiffs return but are told not to shout 01 Apr 2025 - Councils scrapping use of algorithms in benefit and welfare decisions 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding algorithm unfair to towns and cities, Boris Johnson told 01 Apr 2025 - Heads want to know if masks allowed in school 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England will have to provide remote learning if closed again 01 Apr 2025 - London councils take funds from developers to pay for planning guidelines 01 Apr 2025 - We will see 'real problems' with COVID-19 this winter, chief medical officer says 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes ‘ordered not to resuscitate’ as coronavirus pandemic took hold 01 Apr 2025 - Schools let down by lack of 'plan B', says union 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson says it is ‘vitally important’ to get children back to school 01 Apr 2025 - Almost half of all mets consider hiring freeze this year 01 Apr 2025 - Wakefield’s chief asks for early retirement ‘with heavy heart’ 01 Apr 2025 - Row erupts over county’s plans for Greater Essex combined authority 01 Apr 2025 - UK government debt hits £2tn for first time 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless children hit 14-year high as 130,000 stuck in B&Bs and temporary shelter 01 Apr 2025 - Extension on eviction ban to be announced today, LBC understands 01 Apr 2025 - Casey leaves rough sleeping advisory role 01 Apr 2025 - Northumberland council faces '£5.5m claim' over virus-halted work 01 Apr 2025 - BTEC results delayed over 'unfairness' concerns less than 24 hours before grades due out 01 Apr 2025 - English councils face £2bn black hole from coroanvrius 01 Apr 2025 - Councils advised to avoid term ‘lockdown’ 01 Apr 2025 - GMB votes to accept 2.75% pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Heated row between district and county leaders casts doubt on devo work 01 Apr 2025 - Child migrants to be sent away from Kent as council reaches capacity 01 Apr 2025 - Labour calls for evictions ban to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: UK to ramp up coronavirus monitoring programme 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax changes are ‘needed now’ as payment debts reach £3.6billion 01 Apr 2025 - IFS warns of financial pressure on councils as a result of Covid crisis 01 Apr 2025 - IFS warns of financial pressure on councils as a result of Covid crisis 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rises to 1% in July as lockdown eases 01 Apr 2025 - Link between polluted air and COVID-19 deaths revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to extend free school meals to children from migrant families 01 Apr 2025 - Kent unable to take in more unaccompanied child refugees, council says 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office uses 4,000 hotel rooms to cope with migrants 01 Apr 2025 - Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling rage sparks a 40% rise in attacks on bin workers 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of migrants denied help in the pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Unite members reject 'insulting' council pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown ‘will mean fewer healthy years for many’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK's £37bn July house-buying boom sees busiest month of sales in a decade 01 Apr 2025 - MPs warn of 'wave of homelessness' when eviction ban ends 01 Apr 2025 - Theatres, casinos and bowling alleys reopen as more beauty treatments resume 01 Apr 2025 - Firms 'fall through cracks' of Covid support scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham 'can't drop guard' as infections double 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson accused of ‘cynical broken promise’ as some foreign NHS and care staff still pay surcharge 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers have just seven days to prevent a ‘wave of evictions’, MPs and charities warn 01 Apr 2025 - NHS chiefs’ plea: we need more cash for ‘winter risk’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock axes ‘failing’ Public Health England 01 Apr 2025 - COVID-19 test reveals 6% of population infected by mid-July 01 Apr 2025 - Ombudsman criticises council for lack of transport for SEN pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Plans to end homelessness will ‘fail’ without funding 01 Apr 2025 - Unauthorised camping and littering in Britain's beauty spots increase as holidaymakers seek 'staycations' 01 Apr 2025 - UK firms face up to threat of domestic abuse as more staff work from home 01 Apr 2025 - Migrant children face hunger over free school meal restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - Almost a third of buildings with Grenfell-style cladding yet to undergo removal work 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of office-based staff ‘will still be working from home at Christmas’ 01 Apr 2025 - England's contact-tracing app gets green light for trial 01 Apr 2025 - Children made up just 1% of COVID-19 cases in England in first peak - study 01 Apr 2025 - Research reveals which cities hit hardest by unemployment levels 01 Apr 2025 - Government reaffirms support for LEPs 01 Apr 2025 - Council test and trace teams to be rolled out 01 Apr 2025 - Undercover team finds pubs and bars ignoring COVID-19 guidance in area where cases are rising 01 Apr 2025 - UK officially in recession for first time in 11 years 01 Apr 2025 - 6,000 contact tracers will be cut in England in the next two weeks 01 Apr 2025 - People with learning disabilities left stuck in lockdown because of cuts to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Eat out to help out: More than 10.5m meals claimed in first week 01 Apr 2025 - UK enters recession 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ask for coronavirus licensing powers 01 Apr 2025 - Boroughs warn lost income scheme will only cover half of impact 01 Apr 2025 - Income guarantee scheme details awaited 01 Apr 2025 - Where to now? End of eviction ban leaves tenants fearing for future 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords tell ministers: let’s go halves on rent bills 01 Apr 2025 - At least 151 migrants land on Kent beaches 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Millions for small business 'sitting in council accounts' 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Disastrous’ planning reforms slammed for ignoring build out issues 01 Apr 2025 - Over half of workforce in county areas 'at risk' due to pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Multi-million-pound funding package for school transport 01 Apr 2025 - Call to scrap two-tier local government system in rural areas 01 Apr 2025 - Government extends emergency bus and tram funding 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall first to pass on COVID-19 funding to local councils 01 Apr 2025 - Winners of £900m for shovel ready schemes are announced 01 Apr 2025 - Social care at breaking point in England after 'lost decade' – report 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Little evidence of Covid transmission in schools, says Williamson 01 Apr 2025 - Union plans for schools to teach pupils on 'week on-week off' basis 01 Apr 2025 - Union plans for schools to teach pupils on 'week on-week off' basis 01 Apr 2025 - One in three UK firms 'expect to make redundancies' 01 Apr 2025 - School funding plan 'benefits wealthier pupils most' 01 Apr 2025 - Air pollution warning as road traffic rises above pre-lockdown levels 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson defends 'long overdue' planning overhaul in England 01 Apr 2025 - Help people self-isolate with jury-style payments, say mayors 01 Apr 2025 - Race to the bottom: reform to planning system in England could be catastrophic 01 Apr 2025 - Planning laws sped up and red tape cut in 'once in a generation' shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England: Downturn less severe than feared 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Second COVID-19 wave twice as big as the first without effective test, trace, isolating strategy, says new modelling study 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Repetitive’ local gov tendering is undermining NHS covid response 01 Apr 2025 - Former SpAd predicts between five and eight new devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - Jenny Coles: Children’s services need funding ahead of autumn wave of referrals 01 Apr 2025 - Fast-tracked funding to improve school buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Schools 'must come before pubs and restaurants in future' 01 Apr 2025 - English councils with highest Covid rates launch own test-and-trace systems 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak could hike business rates for 'most valuable properties' 01 Apr 2025 - One in eight childcare workers in England earn less than £5 an hour 01 Apr 2025 - Redundancy advice calls triple as furlough scheme winds down 01 Apr 2025 - Redundancy advice calls triple as furlough scheme winds down 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers: Don't rely on more funding 01 Apr 2025 - County leaders in call for metro mayor powers 01 Apr 2025 - The case for more unitaries operating at the county level 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick to lobby Treasury ‘very strongly’ over council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Over half of workforce in county areas 'at risk' due to pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Winners of £900m for shovel ready schemes are announced 01 Apr 2025 - Call to scrap two-tier local government system in rural areas 01 Apr 2025 - Testing and tracing 'key to schools returning', scientists say 01 Apr 2025 - Cities face blockades to contain a second wave of coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - English pubs likely to be spared new Covid-19 restrictions, No 10 says 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: track and trace fails in 50% of ‘easiest’ cases 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Greater Manchester to 'maximise resources' as it tries to 'reverse the spike' in infections 01 Apr 2025 - Local businesses face missing out on £1bn coronavirus help as money not given quick enough 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £20m in new grants for small businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Government in attempted grants cash grab 01 Apr 2025 - LEP Network comes out fighting ahead of White Paper 01 Apr 2025 - Stretched LRFs in cash plea 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus scheme offering UK diners 50% off begins 01 Apr 2025 - Government says schools are safe and children will be back in September 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Manchester to 'maximise resources' as it tries to 'reverse the spike' in infections 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus 90-minute tests to be provided in care homes and hospitals 01 Apr 2025 - Local businesses face missing out on £1bn coronavirus help as money not given quick enough 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock champions role of ‘place’ in health services 01 Apr 2025 - Kirklees agrees £4m leisure services bail-out 01 Apr 2025 - Private sector ‘in position’ to shoulder tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury outlines ‘data-driven’ spending review 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit 'harms the most vulnerable', says major report amid surge in claims 01 Apr 2025 - Fears for children as coronavirus disrupts vaccination programmes 01 Apr 2025 - Care home visits 'delayed' over lack of testing 01 Apr 2025 - 'Chancellor must protect' jobs of those shielding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set up their own track and trace systems 01 Apr 2025 - UK sees highest daily total of COVID-19 cases for more than a month 01 Apr 2025 - Health Secretary defends late-night surprise announcement that stops 4.5m people from meeting indoors just hours before start of Muslim celebrations 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £20m in new grants for small businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Plan to hand social care to NHS is for ‘wrong reasons’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government handling of social care during pandemic attacked 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for adult social care to have an equivalent to NHS chief executive 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of UK public sector jobs to be created in recruitment drive 01 Apr 2025 - UK government to expand Covid-19 rescue loan scheme 01 Apr 2025 - 'Second wave starting to roll across Europe' as isolation period set to be extended 01 Apr 2025 - Sandwell Council sets up own contact tracing system amid anger with government's version 01 Apr 2025 - Leisure centre jobs at risk as Somerset sites remain closed 01 Apr 2025 - Tourist hotspots hit hardest in UK by Covid-19 unemployment 01 Apr 2025 - Huge growth in free school meals urged to tackle food poverty crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Emergency active travel fund: final and indicative allocations 01 Apr 2025 - People over 40 face higher taxes to fund their care when they’re older 01 Apr 2025 - Residents to get new decision-making powers in England cycling 'revolution' 01 Apr 2025 - NHS could take over social care, swelling budget to £150bn 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office breaking law by leaving destitute asylum seekers homeless 01 Apr 2025 - UK campaigners call for action to tackle surge in Covid-19 fly-tipping 01 Apr 2025 - England's social care plans 'need timetable and be a radical rethink' 01 Apr 2025 - UK set to bring in strict new junk food rules including pre-9pm ad ban 01 Apr 2025 - New face covering rules come into force in England 01 Apr 2025 - Child protection referrals could soar by 250% with lockdown easing, social workers warn 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Government borrowing and UK's national debt explode due to lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick considers covering business rate and council tax losses 01 Apr 2025 - UK high streets could be turned into housing, says thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak warns of 'tough choices' ahead as he launches spending review 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor launches Comprehensive Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Districts unite against county proposal for 1.2m ‘mega unitary’ 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell firm took some of cladding savings for itself, inquiry told 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers lavished millions on towns in marginal Tory seats before polls 01 Apr 2025 - Women seeking asylum left 'without basic support' during UK lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Oxford vaccine triggers immune response 01 Apr 2025 - Government's catch-up fund for English school pupils comes under fire 01 Apr 2025 - Above-inflation pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers 01 Apr 2025 - Justin Griggs: Give parish councils support they need to help build back stronger 01 Apr 2025 - Changing Places toilets to be installed in every new public building 01 Apr 2025 - Leisure centres under threat, warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - £62m for local councils to discharge people with learning disabilities or autism 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister gives local authorities more powers for local lockdowns 01 Apr 2025 - UK to appoint chief inspector of buildings to address safety fears 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to unveil pupil funding plan during school visit 01 Apr 2025 - Patients to be prescribed exercise and nature walks 01 Apr 2025 - More than 4,000 hospital patients discharged into care homes without test 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers urged to overhaul early years services in England 01 Apr 2025 - £3bn for NHS to prepare for possible second wave 01 Apr 2025 - Distribution of £500m Covid funding announced 01 Apr 2025 - Tory peer calls for immediate £8bn care funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - York and districts speak out against North Yorks reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - A million smokers quit during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - Waste collections ‘return to normal’ 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of drivers suffer pothole breakdowns despite low traffic during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson promises independent inquiry into coronavirus response 01 Apr 2025 - Andrea Leadsom to review disadvantaged children's health 01 Apr 2025 - Workers won't be ordered to wear face masks in offices, says Matt Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - Care costs in England should be capped, says social care adviser 01 Apr 2025 - England's free school meals scheme to close for new claims over summer 01 Apr 2025 - Flood strategy 'at odds with Boris Johnson push for mass housing' 01 Apr 2025 - UK energy efficiency push offers just a third of the investment needed, says report 01 Apr 2025 - UK government planning new green investment bank 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to devolve £5.2bn flood defences funding 01 Apr 2025 - District council gets green light to build first zero carbon affordable homes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils issue warning over £730m of unspent EU funding 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury borrowing clampdown ‘should not have been necessary’ 01 Apr 2025 - 'No DSS' letting bans 'ruled unlawful' by court 01 Apr 2025 - Ten million Britons unable to attend funerals in lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Care workers do not qualify for health visa in new post-Brexit immigration plans 01 Apr 2025 - Town centres across England may never recover from Covid-19 crisis, Labour warns 01 Apr 2025 - Bailiff fears as councils chase unpaid tax debts 01 Apr 2025 - Face masks and coverings to be compulsory in England's shops 01 Apr 2025 - Face masks and coverings to be compulsory in England's shops 01 Apr 2025 - millions living longer but in far poorer health 01 Apr 2025 - English councils poised to make cuts amid loss of commercial income 01 Apr 2025 - Cross-party group of MPs to lead first UK coronavirus inquiry 01 Apr 2025 - Priti Patel to set out post-Brexit immigration details 01 Apr 2025 - Council to bring housing management back in-house 01 Apr 2025 - Third of social workers looking to quit profession, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Jobs and services at risk as Luton prepares for emergency budget vote 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey leader ‘seeks country’s biggest unitary’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of rolling out universal credit rises by £1.4bn, say auditors 01 Apr 2025 - Junk food deals will be banned in Boris Johnson’s assault on obesity 01 Apr 2025 - Too many youngsters are going to university, Education Secretary says as he rips up 50 per cent target 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes opening for family visits ‘very soon’ 01 Apr 2025 - Dementia patients 'deteriorating' without family visits 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of funerals continues to rise even as services limited 01 Apr 2025 - Labour urges Rishi Sunak to cancel 'secret £1bn giveaway' for landlords and second home owners 01 Apr 2025 - Leicester lockdown: No plans for extra Covid cash, minister says 01 Apr 2025 - Leicester mayor accuses Matt Hancock of not sharing Covid-19 data 01 Apr 2025 - 'Flawed' test denies EU migrants universal credit, thinktank warns 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes face staffing 'black hole' with new immigration bill 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor unveils his three-part plan for jobs 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Rishi Sunak to unveil 'kickstart jobs scheme' for young people 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of council jobs at risk due to funding shortfall, union warns 01 Apr 2025 - Care chiefs reject Boris' COVID claims 01 Apr 2025 - Forty charities unite in call for new law to end 'patchy' homeless help 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson criticised over 'cowardly' care home comments 01 Apr 2025 - Vouchers of up to £5,000 for home insulation 01 Apr 2025 - England's vulnerable teenagers at risk of 'falling off the radar' 01 Apr 2025 - Ed Davey calls for £45bn funding for councils to fuel green economic recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Think tank calls for sweeping reforms to local taxes 01 Apr 2025 - Social care reform needed within a year - NHS England boss 01 Apr 2025 - Another 27,000 excess deaths 'likely' if government continues on this path, warns top scientist 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak to give firms £1,000 cash bonus to hire trainees 01 Apr 2025 - Arts venues welcome £1.57bn government support 01 Apr 2025 - If lockdown can go local, the plan for recovery should do the same 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers should be vigilant for signs of abuse when schools reopen, NSPCC says 01 Apr 2025 - English countryside 'at risk from Boris Johnson’s planning revolution' 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak considers £500 vouchers for all UK adults to spend in Covid-hit firms 01 Apr 2025 - Local officials kept in the dark by Whitehall on Covid-19 testing data 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will be forced to make cuts or face bankruptcy amid £6bn funding crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 exposes stark generational housing divide, UK report says 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 30,000 'excess' care homes deaths 01 Apr 2025 - New five-step plan for local lockdowns as Leicester rules come into force 01 Apr 2025 - England lockdown easing 'biggest step yet', says PM 01 Apr 2025 - LGA says ‘more is desperately needed’ despite funding package 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick pledges to lobby Treasury if more council funding needed this year 01 Apr 2025 - LGC survey: Third of senior officers expect to issue s114 01 Apr 2025 - Clarke indicates flexibility on unitary size in drive to make state ‘match fit’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers to tone down warnings over use of trains and buses in boost for public transport 01 Apr 2025 - Labour call for free flu vaccines for over-50s this winter to prevent 'perfect storm' 01 Apr 2025 - Care home staff and residents to get regular COVID-19 tests from next week 01 Apr 2025 - School safety plans will keep groups apart 01 Apr 2025 - Downing Street blames councils for failure to receive key outbreak information 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of £10billion cash black hole as Robert Jenrick pumps an extra £500million into struggling English local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Faulty masks sent to care homes and GPs recalled 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers reject £6,000 scrappage scheme for toxic vehicles 01 Apr 2025 - Fears grow for UK high street as more than 6,000 retail jobs cut in a day 01 Apr 2025 - Year groups kept isolated in back-to-school plan 01 Apr 2025 - UK libraries are set to reopen – but not as we know them 01 Apr 2025 - Rent arrears could see homelessness treble this year, campaigners warn 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA mulls legal action against council 01 Apr 2025 - ‘We’re making a noise because this is money we’ve spent in good faith’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils miss outbreak plan deadline amid uncertainty over lockdown powers 01 Apr 2025 - COVID funding gap hits £7.4bn, LGA estimates 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG rejects statutory duties review 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick expected to announce plans to ease finance woes 01 Apr 2025 - Clarke: Devo white paper will bring ‘more mayors and more unitaries’ 01 Apr 2025 - English councils breaking law in 'secretly' relocating homeless people 01 Apr 2025 - Struggling councils face £10bn black hole, Keir Starmer warns 01 Apr 2025 - Citizens advice warn of council tax “D-Day”: Bailiffs to chase debts again under new rules 01 Apr 2025 - Government allocates an additional £105m for rough-sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - County set to approve £102m waste contract 01 Apr 2025 - Council may have to issue s114, warns CIPFA 01 Apr 2025 - Sheffield devo deal set to be passed by Parliament 01 Apr 2025 - Trafford Centre owner Intu falls into administration 01 Apr 2025 - Hand health powers to elected mayors, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh reorganisation offensive leaves districts quaking 01 Apr 2025 - Playground guidance branded ‘bonkers’ as minsters urge reopening of tips and toilets 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick ‘comprehensive plan’ likely this week as June returns show costs rising 01 Apr 2025 - Cash strapped county unitary names new chief 01 Apr 2025 - Back-to-school safety plans for autumn leaked 01 Apr 2025 - South Yorkshire devolution deal set for approval 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus slump could delay building of 300,000 homes 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson pledges 'new deal' to build post-virus 01 Apr 2025 - Leicester lockdown tightened as cases rise 01 Apr 2025 - UK needs 'biggest-ever peacetime job creation plan' to stop mass unemployment 01 Apr 2025 - Local health officials say they have been left in the dark on spread of coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands may have died in care homes after families were ‘blocked from discharging them’ 01 Apr 2025 - PM promising £1bn to rebuild crumbling schools 01 Apr 2025 - Diana Melville: How to improve councillors’ financial scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - Planning and licensing changes to pave the way for alfresco summer 01 Apr 2025 - Local councils face a Covid-19 cash crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Anglesey coronavirus cases: How a ‘local lockdown’ would actually work in the UK after spike at 2 Sisters meat factory 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘abandons plans to give Robert Jenrick more power over planning decisions’ 01 Apr 2025 - 'Unacceptable' drop in care at Kettering home with 12 Covid-19 deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Over £46m paid to survivors of abuse at Lambeth children's homes 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of nurseries fear closure due to coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Government to tear up red tape to allow more outdoor drinking and dining 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to speed up climate action with green recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Gyms and swimming pools ‘could reopen in July’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘A sticking plaster’: Fears government plans to rehouse rough sleepers will force thousands back on to streets due to their immigration status 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool says £467m will help prevent 'profound crisis' in post-Covid recovery 01 Apr 2025 - UK councils fear bankruptcy amid Covid-19 costs 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces more money to keep rough sleepers off streets 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall not sharing Covid-19 data on local outbreaks, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Eight out of 10 English councils at risk of bankruptcy, says study 01 Apr 2025 - Health leaders say UK must start preparing for second Covid-19 wave 01 Apr 2025 - 1.1m pupils have returned to school 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeships 'are not delivering social mobility' 01 Apr 2025 - Surge during pandemic of children needing foster care as more families reach ‘crisis point’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK public 'supports green recovery from coronavirus crisis' 01 Apr 2025 - Ministerial role needed to fix unequal education system, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - GCSEs and A-levels likely to be later next summer 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson drops plans to suspend Sunday trading laws after objections from own MPs and Labour 01 Apr 2025 - 'One metre plus', the new rule that will reopen UK 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak plans emergency cut in VAT to rescue ailing economy 01 Apr 2025 - Traffic levels 'now double the lockdown low' 01 Apr 2025 - Unite to ballot members over ‘insulting’ council pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Council planning powers under threat 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for action to resolve £6bn Covid-19 crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Council celebrates ‘landmark’ ruling that will save museums thousands 01 Apr 2025 - Social care is running out of cash, experts warn 01 Apr 2025 - PM to announce on Tuesday if pubs can reopen 01 Apr 2025 - Call to build 100,000 homes a year for frontline ‘heroes’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils in poorer areas will be hit hardest by coronavirus, study warns 01 Apr 2025 - UK debt now larger than size of whole economy 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England unleashes another £100 billion to boost economy amid signs of ‘less severe’ hit 01 Apr 2025 - Home and school-based learning must be ‘poverty-proofed’, says charity 01 Apr 2025 - 4.5m people in UK forced to become unpaid carers 01 Apr 2025 - Up to half of rough sleepers in hotels may not have access to support when they leave, charities warn 01 Apr 2025 - £350m tutoring scheme aiming to help pupils worst hit by school closures pleases some and concerns others 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 effect on Scottish economy revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Luton Council warns of ‘severe cuts’ to frontline services 01 Apr 2025 - Government to fund private tutors for English schools 01 Apr 2025 - Get all children back to school, doctors tell Boris Johnson 01 Apr 2025 - Care providers 'will go to the wall' without more funding 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless people moved out of hotels prompting fears hundreds will be forced to return to streets 01 Apr 2025 - Leeds City Council warns of cuts and job losses 01 Apr 2025 - Budget setting could result in ‘large scale reduction’ in services 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus leaves £500m black hole in London's finances 01 Apr 2025 - England's councils 'face large-scale' cuts to services 01 Apr 2025 - Toilet fears hamper high street return for some 01 Apr 2025 - 'Invisible' unpaid carers going hungry in lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Job cuts warning as 600,000 roles go in lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Younger children ‘struggle with behaviour and focus in lockdown’ 01 Apr 2025 - New trials planned for cash-stricken communities 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate falls to fresh four-year low 01 Apr 2025 - Four in 10 pupils have had little contact with teachers during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] '3.5 million jobs at risk' if two-metre rule isn't eased, PM warned 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn they have no legal powers to enforce ‘local lockdowns’ 01 Apr 2025 - Free internet to help poorer pupils study online 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates grant money could be clawed back, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - IFS exposes impact of COVID-19 on different areas 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] jobless total to hit 4.5m as firms wield axe 01 Apr 2025 - Wardens hired to police crowds as high streets in England reopen 01 Apr 2025 - Scientists say coronavirus 2m rule can be relaxed 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus R number may have risen above 1 in parts of England, govt says 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Simmering community tensions’ spark Covid cohesion concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Give 1m UK children reliable broadband or risk harming their education, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Oversupply of kits to care homes raises concern over Covid-19 test figures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Poorest areas of England and Wales hit hardest by Covid-19 – ONS 01 Apr 2025 - Prime minister is risking basic right to an education, says children’s tsar 01 Apr 2025 - Older carers ‘forgotten’ by care system says charity 01 Apr 2025 - Councils must challenge Government fearlessly for pandemic cash 01 Apr 2025 - Test and trace funding allocated to councils 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes were ‘afterthought’ with devastating coronavirus consequences 01 Apr 2025 - Children face a 'whole series of harms' because their lives were put on hold by school closures designed to protect the middle-aged and elderly from the coronavirus, SAGE paediatrician warns 01 Apr 2025 - More than a third of employees furloughed in some UK towns 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy shrinks record 20.4% in April due to lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Robert Jenrick urged to release documents in planning row 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK economy could be among worst hit of leading nations, says OECD 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax warning: Town Halls debt-collecting bailiffs must be banned, Sunak urged 01 Apr 2025 - Covid-19 crisis means England's local authorities could go bust, warn mayors 01 Apr 2025 - Low-carbon and renewable economy could create 700,000 jobs by 2030, report says 01 Apr 2025 - Councils using data analytics to identify vulnerable people 01 Apr 2025 - Closure of public toilets causing anxiety, distress and frustration across UK 01 Apr 2025 - District to hold emergency budget today to stave off section 114 01 Apr 2025 - Social distancing ‘could push leisure providers into bankruptcy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Wiltshire warns of s114 amid £50m shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Councils given extra time to update electoral rolls 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Plans shelved for primary pupils to be back in school before summer as figures reveal half have reopened 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens more statues could be removed due to slavery links as councils promise reviews following protests 01 Apr 2025 - Rip up planning red tape to spur house building, says Robert Jenrick 01 Apr 2025 - New powers to crack down on cycle lane misuse by motorists 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Local lockdowns will require local furlough schemes, say mayors 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] How are England's coastal resorts faring? 01 Apr 2025 - £3m fund for urgent work to historic sites to help support recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Minister slammed for expecting rough sleepers to ‘return to friends and family’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New coronavirus task force to protect care homes 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Cash boost for debt advice as '£6bn tsunami' hits households 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Millions have become carers due to coronavirus crisis, new research finds 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK daily deaths drop to pre-lockdown level 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Plan dropped for all primary pupils back in school 01 Apr 2025 - Lockdown legacy: debt and public finances 01 Apr 2025 - Council planning powers under threat 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] plans to open shops all day on Sundays 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for clarity on proposed Shared Prosperity Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Clash over call to scrap requirement for annual balanced budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Mayors press for local furlough powers 01 Apr 2025 - Hughes gets key OBR role 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson considers giving drivers up to £6,000 in diesel and petrol car scrappage scheme 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] PM may bring forward plans to reopen pubs and restaurants 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New UK travel quarantine rules a stunt, says Ryanair boss 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Calls for post-Covid-19 homeless plan 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Ban on landlords evicting renters extended 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Thousands of homeless people face being evicted as lockdown is loosened 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home residents face steep hike in fees 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes face £6.6bn bill to fight Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit delay ‘would hit Scottish GDP’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council stops 300 fraudulent single-person discount claims in one year 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Court action threatened over school meal vouchers 01 Apr 2025 - Gypsies and Travellers in England left without water during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Unlock our lavatories, councils told 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Widen rules on where face coverings must be used, say UK doctors 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeship promised for every young person 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Govt facing legal action unless it admits to acting 'unlawfully' over care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Disruption to schools could continue to November, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Fears that nurseries could be forced to close permanently due to effect of pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Thousands of homeless 'back on streets by July' 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector deposit fund reaches £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - District warns of s114 within two months 01 Apr 2025 - Wage boards advocated for care workers 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset CC returns to unitary proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Deadly risk to social care staff revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Covid is delivering John McDonnell’s hoped-for economy 01 Apr 2025 - Record numbers used UK food banks in first month of lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Decade of progress in tackling pupil disadvantage 'wiped out' 01 Apr 2025 - Brits willing to pay an extra penny on income tax to fix social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Coronavirus: No figures yet but Matt Hancock claims test and trace system has been 'successful' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Packed beaches see government urged to ban people travelling more than five miles 01 Apr 2025 - Top business leaders call on Boris Johnson to set out green recovery plan 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Far too soon to ease lockdown in north-east England, leaders warn 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus]: 'Highly variable' attendance at schools - as UK warned 'disease is not done yet' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Blueprint to save the High Street 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Emergency coronavirus budget to save 2 million jobs 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Loved ones reunite and children begin return to school - despite warnings over lockdown easing 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh government urges lifting of borrowing limit 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils could need additional £6bn to balance Covid-19 spend 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government extends self-employed scheme 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Bosses will have to pay fifth of furlough staff wages 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government rejected radical lockdown of England's care homes 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Lockdown easing to allow groups of six to meet 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool warns of funding ‘blackhole’ 01 Apr 2025 - Committee calls again for social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Applications for government’s £1bn fund to remove unsafe cladding open next week 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Pubs could reopen next month as Boris Johnson gives hope to Brit boozers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Shop-bought kits taken off shelves for being unreliable 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK's most vulnerable people at risk of losing 60% of their income 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Text message tells vulnerable people in UK they are dropped from shielding list 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes plan to withhold funds to CQC in protest at how they handled coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Test and trace programme launches in England - but insiders report problems 01 Apr 2025 - Tories lose control of district following ‘moral’ resignation over Cummings 01 Apr 2025 - Sigoma shortfall tops £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Government pledges homes for rough sleepers 01 Apr 2025 - 'Local lockdowns' to be introduced in UK for future coronavirus 'flare-ups' 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Councils in England and Wales face £3.4bn funding black hole 01 Apr 2025 - Channel migrants: Lone children 'could overwhelm council services' 01 Apr 2025 - Vouchers to fix your old bike and more space on roads as part of biggest ever cycling push to be launched next month 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Transport network to get £283m for Covid-19 protection measures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris finalises plans to lift lockdown as package worth hundreds of millions unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - England to provide 3,300 homes for homeless after coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities to receive extra £300m for test and trace services 01 Apr 2025 - Care workers should be better paid and valued after Covid-19 – poll 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Virus could be here for year' so schools must open, says education secretary 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] All non-essential shops to reopen from 15 June - PM 01 Apr 2025 - Rough Sleepers Could Return To Streets As Councils Warn Of Funding Shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] People urged to stay away from UK beaches over bank holiday weekend 01 Apr 2025 - £300 million additional funding for local authorities to support new test and trace service 01 Apr 2025 - New rules would see councils warn ministers before a s114 01 Apr 2025 - UK borrowing at record high as virus cost soars in April 01 Apr 2025 - NHS fees to be scrapped for overseas health staff and care workers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Majority of Cabinet want Boris Johnson to ease coronavirus lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New 'on the spot' COVID-19 swab test being trialled 01 Apr 2025 - Government has ability to make end of rough sleeping permanent if it wants, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils throw 1 June schools reopening plan into doubt 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government increases large business loan scheme 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Cost of government Covid-19 measures revealed 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils create own local outbreak plans amid lack of clarity from centre 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Benefit claims fraud could be £1.5bn 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review TfL finances following Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Ministers row back on 1 June schools opening as councils voice concerns 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Up to 1,000 care homes could go bust in wake of Covid crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Coronavirus forces two million people to fall behind on council tax bills 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] NHS and social care staff to get coronavirus antibody tests from next week 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers considered cap on care costs before coronavirus outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Thirty ways Covid will change how councils work: Nos 1-10 [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Directors of public health fear ‘shambles’ over contact tracing 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers pile pressure on councils over business grants 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government considers bypassing councils to get cash to care providers 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers facing renewed pressure over push to reopen schools 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Data delay left care homes ‘fighting losing battle’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] London councils launch procurement partnership as care homes face PPE challenges 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Desperate' care homes plea with council for 'immediate financial support' after struggling to get government cash 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Luton Borough Council faced with 'stark' savings 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Most apprentices losing work and learning opportunities amid Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Jobless claims surge by record 856,500 in April to highest level since 1996 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Regional lifting of lockdown needed to prevent coronavirus flare-ups, new modelling suggests 01 Apr 2025 - 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK records lowest increase in COVID-19 deaths since lockdown began 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Over 20 care homes warn council there may be 'imminent' collapse in sector 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' bets on property market 'battered' by Covid-19 closures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Meeting with Leeds Council leaders to discuss C-19 recovery 01 Apr 2025 - Charities call for 'vital' early intervention funding to safeguard children 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless will not be turfed out, says Casey 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Better-off children 'studying more than poorer pupils' 01 Apr 2025 - Raise taxes for those who live near parks, report says 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] £5bn needed to stop local cuts say county councils 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £10bn funding 'black hole' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils resist government's changed 'stay alert' message 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care-home resources ‘should be allocated at local level’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay freeze ‘dangerously demoralising’ 01 Apr 2025 - Impact on UK GDP becomes clearer 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government considers free parking in town centres to keep workers off public transport 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Homeless people put up in hotels amid pandemic face being kicked out, leaked report says 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] ONS survey estimates 148,000 coronavirus cases 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Inquiry over Covid-19 patients sent to care homes 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils call for 'higher risk' schools to be allowed to decide whether to reopen 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New £600m funding to support care home ‘lockdown’ 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick warned of ‘massive cuts’ as treasurers prepare Covid returns 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham City Council 'was sent PPE six years out of date' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns of 'significant recession' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] First coronavirus antibody test given approval by Public Health England 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers were warned two years ago of care homes' exposure to pandemics 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in England fear they will have to make cuts of 20% 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] GDP down 2% as UK economy struggles with pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils face losing tens of millions of pounds in coronavirus crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Dementia patients three times more likely to get severe coronavirus, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Testing for coronavirus in UK care homes a ‘complete system failure’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home deaths 'starting to decline' 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman: ‘We want to avoid the risk of a public negotiation’ on funding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Honour your promises’, cash-strapped Lancs leaders tell ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Shielding improvements on agenda for LGA and Whitehall 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs to develop care home resilience plans 01 Apr 2025 - Unite expected to urge pay offer rejection 01 Apr 2025 - Finance chiefs say Government could underwrite tax losses for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over coronavirus and commercial investment cocktail 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Rishi Sunak extends furlough scheme to OCTOBER and government will STILL cover 80 per cent of pay with staff able to come back part-time 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Bus firms face struggle as lockdown eases 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] NHS shielding letters miss thousands of cancer patients 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] School classes to have 15 pupil limit, Government's new coronavirus guidance says 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Furloughed workers set to be allowed back part-time 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes to get extra help from NHS 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes faced funding cut if they didn't take in COVID-19 patients 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Public advised to wear face coverings in PM's 50-page plan for lifting lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Colchester becomes latest council to furlough staff 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Businesses want 'clear guidance' on return to work 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] PM unveils 'conditional plan' to reopen society 01 Apr 2025 - [Opinion] Tony Travers: Councils face multitude of dilemmas as they plan for recovery 01 Apr 2025 - DfE urged to get a ‘grip’ of SEND system 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick spending pledge ‘backtracking’ sparks widespread dismay 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates revaluation postponed 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Bank of England scenario sees biggest annual slump in GDP since 1706 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home crisis is a bitter regret, admits Johnson 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Abandoned' care homes warn councils of legal action 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] PM to review lockdown restrictions with cabinet 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Jenrick: Councils so far receiving more Covid funding than they say they need 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Social workers brace for a surge in child protection referrals when schools re-open 01 Apr 2025 - Many children with special educational needs ‘failed’ by system – report 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Segment and shield' way to lift UK lockdown now 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Firms need up to three weeks to exit lockdown, government warned 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Teachers warn of early school return 'spike' 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick insists local government will have input into contact tracing 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick warns not all costs will be covered and brands lost income estimates ‘highly speculative’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Launch of PPE delivery system for care home staff hit by delays 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] The eight-year-old carer looking after her mum and sisters in lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Antibody tests could be approved by Public Health England this week 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Treasury rolls out small business 'bounce back' loans 01 Apr 2025 - Robert Jenrick pledges more than £76m for charities to help domestic abuse and trafficking victims in England 01 Apr 2025 - Fair Funding Review delayed further 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole-related breakdowns up 64% in first three months of 2020, figures suggest 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home coronavirus deaths could be four times higher than official figures suggest 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Calls for clarity as tips due to reopen 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Council bosses 'short-changed' by government fund 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson says UK is past the peak of outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: County councils say non-essential spending at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: County councils say non-essential spending at risk 01 Apr 2025 - Government confirms allocations of £1.6 billion funding boost for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Local dumps to reopen for your rubbish - but only if you book an appointment and bring ID 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Contact tracing can’t be run by Westminster, experts warn 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus: Lockdown] exit must take domestic abuse rise into account - May 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK failed to stockpile crucial PPE 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils vying for emergency virus cash 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] £3.2bn cash for councils may not stop 'uncontrollable' second wave 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils need 'rock solid' financial support as homelessness rises during outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - Hackney funding gap ‘could hit services’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government confirms extension to accounts deadline 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Bosses appeal to the government for a lockdown exit plan 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson back at Downing Street to lead response 01 Apr 2025 - Five councils start bypassing Care Act duties amid Covid pressures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronvirus] Covid-19 should be game changing for social care [Opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Contact tracing costs could ‘place more pressure’ on council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes face weeks of delay for vital protective kit 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Essential workers in England to get tests 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils warn government bailout cash 'gone now' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Council warns additional funding might not cover Covid costs 01 Apr 2025 - Wales to maintain free school meals through summer break 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing could top £300bn 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Some authorities could become ‘financially unsustainable’ due to pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Pandemic is making ‘inadequate funding baseline’ worse, says new ADCS president 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Crisis should spark social care reform - report 01 Apr 2025 - Business to receive almost £10 billion in rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - David Williams: We can’t lead recovery with one hand tied behind our backs 01 Apr 2025 - Hackney mayor ‘couldn’t rule out’ s114 without extra funding 01 Apr 2025 - children’s social care referrals down by up to half 01 Apr 2025 - New national recruitment campaign for adult social care launched 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government confirms extension to council accounts deadline 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Scale of districts’ Covid-19 income challenge revealed 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Recycling centres remain closed despite minister’s plea to open 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Heads say 1 June earliest realistic school opening 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Coastal and ex-industrial towns 'most economically at risk' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Hard to prevent care home deaths, says Chris Whitty 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Social restrictions 'to remain for rest of year' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Virus grants are postcode lottery for small firms with some councils paying just one in ten eligible companies 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] MPs and peers call for universal basic income 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Rushanara Ali MP calls for urgent action to help workers left out of the coronavirus job retention scheme 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Pub sector faces 'bloodbath' over rents 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Disgusting' fly-tipping soars during lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Only a quarter of care workers are being tested for COVID-19 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warned over delay to emergency grants for business 01 Apr 2025 - Councils burn recycling amid virus-linked rise in waste and staff absence 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New working arrangements for MPs as Commons returns 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] MPs to investigate Covid-19 impact on council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary chief: ‘no confidence’ s114 notice can be avoided 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Furlough scheme: 140,000 firms apply for help to pay a million workers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Millions of pieces of PPE are being shipped from Britain to Europe despite NHS shortages 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Facemasks for public ‘risk NHS shortage’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home residents told they are 'unlikely' to be offered ventilators 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Emergency appeal to help millions of unpaid carers during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home deaths 'far higher' than official figures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils in England given an extra £1.6bn to tackle COVID-19 crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Hospital leaders hit out at government as PPE shortage row escalates 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Social care staff from Norfolk told to travel to Sheffield to get tested for Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government unveils £1.3bn scheme to help start-ups 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Schools stay shut until June as two in three pupils ignore online classes 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Mortuaries to be expanded by 30,000 spaces 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson resists easing of coronavirus lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - Unions slam 'woefully low' council pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Delayed supply system rollout causing critical PPE shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax holiday: Huge pressure mounts for freeze on levy, two weeks after rates hiked 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Firefighters begin moving bodies after ‘considerable number’ of coronavirus deaths in Midlands 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Fly-tipping rise prompts plea to reopen tips 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] NHS volunteer army of 750,000 has been given fewer than 20,000 tasks, data reveals 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Treasury backs loans to bigger businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Signs that more families missing out on first choice primary school 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK lockdown extended for 'at least' three weeks 01 Apr 2025 - Deficit ‘could reach 12% of GDP’ this year 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] More PPE promised for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Hall loses local government post 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Counties urge s114 change as coronavirus costs soar 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] LGC survey: Government crisis response given benefit of the doubt 01 Apr 2025 - Pay offer for council staff increased to 2.75% 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Andy Norman: Covid-19 to hit economies in Midlands and North West worst 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils given greater financial relief against cash flow pressures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Urgent studies needed' into mental health impact of coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Local pharmacies face cash crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 'Too many homeless still sleeping rough' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Social care concerns revealed in leaked letter 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home charity having to source face masks privately at five times usual cost 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector borrowing set to hit record high 01 Apr 2025 - Solace savages ‘inane’ and ‘crass’ Taxpayers’ Alliance ‘rich list’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] More tests promised for care homes 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Ministers urged to raise pay for care home staff during Covid-19 crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns of more 'tough times' during COVID-19 outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Pressure mounts to re-open primary schools by May half term after catastrophic economic forecast 01 Apr 2025 - UK’s highest earning council official received pay package of more than £600,000 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Older people being 'airbrushed' out of virus figures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Householders face up to five years in prison if they burn recycling during collection cutbacks 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK triples coronavirus response fund for NHS and public services 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK Parliament still set to return on 21 April 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Call for testing of firefighters as 3,000 isolate 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Social distancing measures may need to remain in place 'indefinitely', government experts believe 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] England care providers say 10% council fee rise is ‘too little, too late’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Hundreds of UK care home deaths not added to official coronavirus toll 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Loosen rules to let councils borrow for day-to-day spending, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Dominic Raab says UK 'must keep going' with lockdown measures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Scotland's economy expected to shrink because of Covid-19 lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Treasury agrees extension to emergency overdraft 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Think tank calls for benefit cap to be suspended to protect renters 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Crisis cash on its way for NI councils 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes and prisons are next to receive coronavirus test kits 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Chancellor announces aid for charities 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK restrictions set to be reviewed at special 'lockdown summit' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Natwest struggling with calls for emergency loans 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Concerns over Autumn budgeting after regulators reject Accounting Code simplifications 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Allow young people out of lockdown early to get country moving, say business experts 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Few UK firms getting coronavirus funds as wider costs mount 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] U-Turn on free school meals means families will get extra supermarket vouchers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Hundreds of thousands to benefit from 'council tax holiday' during coronavirus pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Cabinet Office moves to further protect suppliers after coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Steve Reed named shadow communities secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Bid to relax accounts code ‘not acceptable’ to auditors and regulators 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham asks Sunak for short term loan to ease cash flow problems 01 Apr 2025 - New Labour leader Keir Starmer vows to lead party into 'new era' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Military distributing 30 million PPE items for community frontline 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Most councils still providing normal waste collections, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] NHS volunteers to start receiving tasks today - here's how they will help 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Free school meal vouchers to continue over Easter holidays 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Residential homes 'desperate' for PPE, as two care workers die 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK councils face lawsuits over access to education in lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Town halls consider council tax payment help 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson spends night in intensive care after symptoms worsen 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government revamps emergency loan scheme for business 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils' pandemic fight is hampered by central micromanagement 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Downing Street warns: defy the lockdown and we'll introduce more restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils in UK struggle to house homeless despite Government calls to accommodate them during pandemic 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] North East care homes 'need more help' to cope with coronavirus outbreak and protect staff 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Libraries see new online memberships soar amid lockdown 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Crematorium attendance halted in West Yorkshire 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New PPE guidance welcomed but concerns remain over shortages 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Distribution of £12bn business grants gets underway 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] New PPE guidance welcomed but concerns remain over shortages 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Matt Hancock sets aim of 100,000 tests a day by end of April 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK care home bosses threaten to quit over return of coronavirus patients 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils' plea for residents to avoid 'spiralling waste' during coronavirus outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Small businesses struggle to get bailout grants as well as bank loans 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government bails out bus firms to keep routes open 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government to waive duties on some medical imports 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government urged to take action after spike in Universal Credit applications 01 Apr 2025 - Launch of new Buckinghamshire Council 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of ‘wave of waste’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Scottish unions blast 'inconsistent' way councils are handling coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils start to pay out business grants 01 Apr 2025 - Video conferencing first at council meeting 01 Apr 2025 - Naylor to be Birmingham chief for a year 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government seeks urgent PPE audit amid widespread shortages 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care homes refusing patients due to lack of PPE 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Renters threatened with eviction 'should stay put' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Nearly a million universal credit claims in past two weeks 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Coronavirus threatens the future of public transport, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] England's children commissioner calls for volunteer social workers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Virus-hit charities 'need substantial support' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] A fifth of smaller UK firms 'will run out of cash' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Homeless people 'scared and hungry' on streets despite promise to house them over weekend 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Free school meals children to get food vouchers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home calls for camper vans to help staff stay on site 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Thousands of rough sleepers still unhoused in England, say charities 01 Apr 2025 - New permanent secretary at MHCLG announced 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Birmingham and Manchester temporary hospitals announced 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Coronavirus restrictions ‘likely to last six months’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Cambridge to lead £20m fight against spread of coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK unemployment set to double as GDP collapses 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Coronavirus forecast to cut UK economic output by 15% 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 20,000 former NHS staff return to fight virus, PM says 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Thousands of council staff moved to the frontline 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government to subsidise up to 80% profits for the self-employed 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing still forecast to be lower than 2009 peak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils coronavirus Q&A with Andy Burns, CIPFA 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Free parking for all frontline coronavirus workers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Sarah Norman: ‘The demands on us are enormous’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2020 to 2021 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Eleanor Kelly: PPE ‘absolutely paramount’ for coronavirus shielding effort 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] DPH’s call for access to NHS 111 data to track coronavirus spread 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Confusion over local responsibility for ‘NHS’ volunteers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Non essential services slashed as focus diverted to coronavirus crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] £1.6bn for social care ‘unlikely to be enough’ for coronavirus crisis response 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] COVID-19 to send almost all G20 countries into a recession 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson, 55, has coronavirus: PM tests positive for disease as crisis grips the UK 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Forces raise concern over resilience plans for elderly through LRFs 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Universal credit 'almost impossible' to complete claim as more than 500,000 apply 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK government unveils aid for self-employed 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Social care faces 'complete emergency', Commons committee told 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Scotland passes Covid-19 business rates compensation law 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] York Council leader warns of £20m shortfall due to coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] NHS account deadline delayed due to pandemic disruption 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Council bodies accept Spending Review delay decision 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Council procurement innovates around Covid-19 restrictions 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Now is not the time for Westminster to tighten its centralising grip 01 Apr 2025 - Bradford and Kirklees give go-ahead to progress devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Jenrick brings forward payment of £3.4bn in corona crisis cash 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB lending limit to be raised £115bn 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] DWP swamped with half a million universal credit claims in nine days 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK coronavirus home testing to be made available to millions 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Parliament shuts down for a month 01 Apr 2025 - Fury as millions of council tax payers face inflation-busting 3.9 per cent average rise to above £2,000 a year despite coronavirus crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Care home staff are being left with no protective equipment and told to self-isolate at work if they test positive for coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Retired social care workers urged to return to help during coronavirus outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Retired social care workers urged to return to help during coronavirus outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government confirms it will plough £500million into an emergency hardship fund to cover council tax bills for vulnerable people worst affected by coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor's package of support could cost ‘several billion pounds’ per month 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus and CSR] Spending review outlining government plans for next three years to be delayed over Covid-19, chancellor says 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Communities secretary handed power to order virtual council meetings 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Landlords barred from evicting firms that fail to pay rent 01 Apr 2025 - Fewer potholes being repaired in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Home care business to recruit 10,000 new staff as demand soars 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] What's in the emergency Coronavirus legislation? 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK brings in strict curbs on life to fight virus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Million undocumented migrants could go hungry, say charities 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronvirus] Rishi Sunak faces legal action from gig economy workers 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Army to distribute masks and protective suits to frontline NHS staff 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] People who ignore government advice 'selfish' 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Local authorities to receive £1.6bn from Response Fund 01 Apr 2025 - Universal Credit advances fraud could have cost £150m 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Social workers call for clarity on carrying out statutory duties 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Councils put at heart of coronavirus response 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Race to implement economic support package 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Jenrick in coronavirus cash flow appeal 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Buoyant tax income ahead of coronavirus crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government to pay up to 80% of workers' wages 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Boris Johnson announces closure of all UK pubs and restaurants 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Take your own rubbish to the tip, families told as bin collections cancelled in crisis 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Fraudsters impersonating officials are targeting the elderly 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Universal Credit to be raised by £1,000 a year in £7bn rescue deal 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Politics latest news: Boris Johnson expected to announce London shutdown today, with pubs and restaurants to close 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick admits no science behind flooding threshold 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Cratus creates coronavirus hotline 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] PM’s lock down plans came ‘as surprise’ to London’s police and politicians 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Clive Betts: Ministers must answer key council questions on coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Waste operators call for ‘performance penalty’ relief to keep services running 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] £3bn bed blocking coronavirus cash injection 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Stop going to the pub or I'll BAN you: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says human rights should be 'infringed' as he slams people for still going to bars and using public transport 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Treasury delays Implementation of IR35 tax until 2021 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] ‘No excuses for slacking’ as councils work ‘as one team’ to fight virus 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Whiteman: virus spend could lead to s114s unless borrowing rules eased 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] (COVID-19): guidance for local government 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Tens of thousands of retired medics asked to return to NHS 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronvirus] Chancellor prepares wage package rescue plan 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Volunteers mobilise to ensure children get fed during school closures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] £2.9bn provided to free up hospital beds for coronavirus patients 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] UK interest rates cut to lowest level ever 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Schools shut down to stop spread of Covid-19 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Tenants protected from eviction during coronavirus outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - Devon CC’s children’s services criticised for ‘serious failures’ 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Business grant commitment sparks major cashflow concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax reform would help 'level up' north of England 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Andy Burnham calls for volunteers to help councils support the vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] 40 London Underground stations to be closed 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] NHS staff 'at risk' over lack of protective gear 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Up to 20,000 troops on standby to help deal with COVID-19 outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Emergency laws will give powers to close airports and detain and quarantine people 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Call to lift benefits to help renters 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Government launches voucher scheme to cover free school meals during closures 01 Apr 2025 - [Coronavirus] Schools in Wales all closing by Friday 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be fully funded for coronavirus costs 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick urges councils not to delay on coronavirus spending 01 Apr 2025 - Gove to oversee public sector preparedness for coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak extends coronavirus business rates holiday 01 Apr 2025 - Councils must not pay the price of the bailout this time round [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Fears for democracy amid widespread coronavirus meeting cancellations 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus bill to suspend Care Act entitlements 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted slams county after care leavers found living in tents 01 Apr 2025 - Firefighters told to cease ‘non-essential’ action amid fears over keeping “core emergency service” healthy 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Care companies fear bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Chancellor unveils £350bn lifeline for economy 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: NHS England to cancel all non-urgent surgery to free up 30,000 beds 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire predicts £119k budget surplus 01 Apr 2025 - Government debt to rise by £125bn by 2025 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham City Council CFO resigns after chief executive snub 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish economy faces 'permanent scarring' from coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Public health grant to increase by £145m in 2020-21 01 Apr 2025 - Reported delay to spending review “unsurprising”, says CCN 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers mull legislation for remote council meetings 01 Apr 2025 - Planning rules and audit deadline relaxed to support coronavirus effort 01 Apr 2025 - Public health gets above inflation rise but cuts ‘hit coronavirus capacity’ 01 Apr 2025 - Online political ads should be labelled, says Law Commission 01 Apr 2025 - Clean air for all: Lampposts to charge electric cars 01 Apr 2025 - The need for a social care plan is more urgent than ever [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Hotels and empty offices should be used to let homeless self-isolate, ministers told 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: UK businesses feel impact of latest measures 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: PM says everyone should avoid office, pubs and travelling 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus patients not self-isolating could be arrested as ministers plan police powers 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick 'deeply disappointed' in housing delivery under Khan 01 Apr 2025 - Yorkshire council criticises Ofsted rating based on ‘short inspection visit’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs call for more funding for services to prevent rough sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - Six councils receive over £1m to ‘spearhead’ digital projects 01 Apr 2025 - Shapps announces £90m tech fund to make journeys ‘greener’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council suspends all debt-related court action in wake of coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Only 10% of councils meeting their pothole repair deadlines 01 Apr 2025 - Interactive map to be created for council audits 01 Apr 2025 - Social care coronavirus guidance urges ‘plans for mutual aid’ 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Downing Street to give daily TV briefings on outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for better support for homeless shelters and food banks amid coronavirus outbreak 01 Apr 2025 - Councils make urgent appeals for supplies of hand sanitiser and face masks amid coronavirus fears 01 Apr 2025 - Bus cuts leave a million people without a regular service 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Supermarkets ask shoppers to be 'considerate' and stop stockpiling 01 Apr 2025 - Government plans to draft in Army to keep hospitals and supermarkets secure, escort food convoys and build tented field wards next to care homes to cope with crisis as deaths almost double in 24 hours 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: teaching union asks PM why schools are not being closed 01 Apr 2025 - Changes to stop R&D tax credit fraud delayed by chancellor 01 Apr 2025 - Edinburgh allocates £2bn for coronavirus fight 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: Rishi Sunak's spending plans 'not as generous as they appear', says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - UK confirms digital services tax despite US threats 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: Sunak gambles on capital spending splurge 01 Apr 2025 - New major road network and large local major schemes announced 01 Apr 2025 - Council closes offices amid coronavirus scare 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick outlines sweeping planning reforms 01 Apr 2025 - LGA chair self isolating after minister meeting 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Plans for homeworking stepped up as concern grows over new burdens 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock: Social care to get ‘everything it needs’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Sustainable council finance – the Budget DOESN’T get it done’ 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: Flood-hit areas to share £200m defence fund 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: £27bn for national roads and £2.5bn for potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: Mayoral authorities win big in transport 01 Apr 2025 - Planning paper shows Thatcher’s ghost lives on in Johnson government 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections postponed for a year over coronavirus 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: A "new era" for the country 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: £1bn fund to strip cladding from tall buildings 01 Apr 2025 - West Yorkshire £1.8bn devolution deal agreed 01 Apr 2025 - Two-mile tunnel underneath Stonehenge COULD go ahead as part of £27billion Budget masterplan to improve Britain's roads 01 Apr 2025 - Biggest boost in decade for affordable homes 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: Business rates suspended for shops and cafes 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: PM set to escalate UK's response in a matter of hours 01 Apr 2025 - Councils pile back into PWLB following coronavirus rate drop 01 Apr 2025 - UK interest rates cut in emergency move 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs demand Chancellor kick starts a council house building boom in Wednesday’s Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness: Councils 'telling people to contact private landlords' 01 Apr 2025 - Social care funding gap inquiry launched by MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation on new business rates funding model expected in the summer 01 Apr 2025 - Environment Bill new burdens could cost districts £300m 01 Apr 2025 - City threatened with 114 notice in budget row 01 Apr 2025 - New budget rules for councils may hit special needs school spending 01 Apr 2025 - Fears raised after Scottish government borrows £200m to balance budget 01 Apr 2025 - PM welcomes £5.2bn flood fund and announces further £200m 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office extends funding for EU Settlement Scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn 3.6 million extra cars are damaging Britain’s roads 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG spent £85m preparing for EU Exit 01 Apr 2025 - More than £100m allocated for local government Brexit preparations 01 Apr 2025 - Workers over 40 to be taxed 2.5% to fund cost of old-age care under plans being considered by Matt Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - Matt Hancock asks MPs and peers for views on adult social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson close to breaching 100-day promise on social care talks, warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - Top-speed broadband will reach even remotest parts of Britain, promises Chancellor 01 Apr 2025 - Parents of sick babies to get extra £160 a week 01 Apr 2025 - Labour challenge Chancellor to make up £27 billion social housing cash shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - The tax that hits struggling High Streets hardest 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Boris Johnson to hold emergency Cobra meeting 01 Apr 2025 - The 'levelling up' agenda cannot overlook shire counties, says report 01 Apr 2025 - To truly ‘level -up’ we need to power up counties 01 Apr 2025 - People moves: MHCLG confirm interim permanent secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Kier suffers £41m loss 01 Apr 2025 - Service reform needed to tackle persistent use of Spice within homeless population 01 Apr 2025 - Councils and teachers call for over £5bn of extra school funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £6.5bn funding gap by 2025 01 Apr 2025 - Tackling ‘two-tier’ access to care in Central Bedfordshire [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Flybe collapse hits council-owned airports 01 Apr 2025 - Government delays Budget infrastructure plan 01 Apr 2025 - LGA responds to CIPFA council tax research 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus will brutally expose the effect of a decade of public service cuts [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - NHS long-term plan did not include workforce needed to deliver, says NAO 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus could shut down parliament for months under emergency plans 01 Apr 2025 - Warwick District Council gives green light to council tax referendum 01 Apr 2025 - Hot air from the Tube recycled to keep homes warm 01 Apr 2025 - 2 million over-55s live in dangerous homes, say charities 01 Apr 2025 - Council warned of section 114 notice danger as reserves dry up 01 Apr 2025 - Councils report 'huge overspends' on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus set to restrict chancellor’s Budget choices 01 Apr 2025 - This Budget needs to remember local government 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS funds given discretion over employer exit payments 01 Apr 2025 - Political horse trading yields extra 20% funding for Scottish councils 01 Apr 2025 - Elphicke handed junior role at MHCLG 01 Apr 2025 - Civil servant 'tried to kill herself after Priti Patel bullying' 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick voices support for East Midlands Combined Authority plans 01 Apr 2025 - Lincolnshire council ‘delighted’ by £3.5m Grimsby investment 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset facing £16m overspend following ‘challenging year’ 01 Apr 2025 - The Tories say austerity is over: this budget will prove it isn’t [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary’s children’s services leaps from requires improvement to outstanding 01 Apr 2025 - DCN chair slams district’s plan for ‘climate emergency’ tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Gove outlines EU trade talk plan 01 Apr 2025 - Peterborough plans £7m repeat of controversial capital receipts treatment 01 Apr 2025 - County hopeful of ‘devo alternative’ growth deal 01 Apr 2025 - Social care 'cracks are turning into chasms' and system faces collapse in 2029, the Government is warned in an alarming report 01 Apr 2025 - County lines car thefts: Police chief says gangs target youngsters to steal luxury vehicles 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Rishi Sunak to snatch £3bn entrepreneurs’ tax relief to pay for the north 01 Apr 2025 - 'My husband's care will cost me my £2m house' 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-starved councils face big bills after buying up shopping centres 01 Apr 2025 - Coronavirus: Shares face worst week since global financial crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Extra council tax bands call 01 Apr 2025 - Housing benefit reform a ‘false economy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Structure review could take place ‘alongside’ North Yorks devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - London boroughs’ joint chief to depart 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset leader launches unitary bid 01 Apr 2025 - District approves 34% ‘climate emergency’ tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Number of rough sleepers falls for second year in row 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review Public Works Loan Board 01 Apr 2025 - Maintaining performance - Social Care IMPOWER INDEX 01 Apr 2025 - PM announces extra £236m to end rough sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - Rutland named strongest performer in adult social care index 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend average of £2 per head on cycling infrastructure, study reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Flood infrastructure funding increased by only £3m over decade 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury plan for land value duty falls on stony ground 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2020: Chancellor must raise taxes in first Budget, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Why a Mansion Tax Could Be a Conservative Winner [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Burnham calls for Barnett formula for the regions 01 Apr 2025 - District plans referendum on 34% council tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Think tank launches £3m fund to support community ‘wellbeing’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public back local tourism taxes 01 Apr 2025 - Migration reform may tip social care ‘over the edge’ 01 Apr 2025 - Lancs leaders told to reorganise if they want devo 01 Apr 2025 - Councils struggle with £3 billion budget hole for keeping children safe 01 Apr 2025 - Rishi Sunak to move Treasury officials north 01 Apr 2025 - Households in England to face council tax rises, research says 01 Apr 2025 - Councils braced for mounting pressure on aslyum support system 01 Apr 2025 - Government funding could reduce the number of potholes by 25 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted fears schools will 'squander' extra cash 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces financial support for flood-hit areas 01 Apr 2025 - North East unitaries set to pursue South of Tyne devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - Sean Anstee: Government needs to ‘level beyond’ as well as ‘level up 01 Apr 2025 - UK Budget date kept at 11 March 01 Apr 2025 - Large employers fail to spend apprenticeship money 01 Apr 2025 - Measures to prevent crime could begin as early as nursery, experts say 01 Apr 2025 - Building 'resilience' won't stop traumatised social workers quitting 01 Apr 2025 - COP26: Climate summit policing bill estimated at £250m 01 Apr 2025 - Tories to reinstate all 3,000 bus routes axed in spending cuts, claims transport secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Fall-out from suspected unitary cyber-attack enters second week 01 Apr 2025 - Chief of flood hit council criticises slow government response 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax set to soar by four per cent as the government struggles to fund social care - potentially costing families hundreds 01 Apr 2025 - Tories have closed 1,300 family centres in last 10 years, figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson vetoes mansion tax after backlash 01 Apr 2025 - Hell-on-Sea: how a drugs gang took over a sleepy Devon town 01 Apr 2025 - Dementia sufferers dumped in hospitals after mass closures of day centres and respite care 01 Apr 2025 - Flood defences in England get 1% of infrastructure spending 01 Apr 2025 - Housing Secretary confirms new support for survivors of domestic violence 01 Apr 2025 - It’s time to create a National Care Service for us all, says Susie Boniface [Opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Budget may be delayed, says Transport Secretary Grant Shapps 01 Apr 2025 - Edinburgh sets out £2.5bn housing-investment plans 01 Apr 2025 - Major investment plans for Kirklees council approved 01 Apr 2025 - Ombudsman reminds councils of care home ‘top-up fees’ duties 01 Apr 2025 - Record number of A&E 'trolley waits' reached in January, NHS say 01 Apr 2025 - Alarm bells over £6.6bn property spending spree 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet reshuffle: Sajid Javid resigns as chancellor; replaced by Rishi Sunak 01 Apr 2025 - Ofcom Board appoints Dame Melanie Dawes as Chief Executive 01 Apr 2025 - Shared service venture to create “finance academy” for managers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to receive share of £4.5m to roll out digital social care projects 01 Apr 2025 - Finance settlement pulled for new terror law 01 Apr 2025 - HS2 gets go ahead despite cost ‘explosion’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: £80m from PWLB rate hike should be given back to councils 01 Apr 2025 - Pooling of LGPS schemes has saved £155m in four years 01 Apr 2025 - Economy beats gloomy forecasts to be third-fastest growing in G7 01 Apr 2025 - Bus funding: Where would it make the most difference? 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy saw zero growth at the end of 2019 01 Apr 2025 - Government to pledge £5bn for bus services and cycling routes 01 Apr 2025 - Families in the north have biggest council tax bills 01 Apr 2025 - Equalities watchdog launches inquiry into pupil restraint in schools amid concerns from parents 01 Apr 2025 - Bus cuts turn rural areas into ‘transport deserts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid is under pressure to fix unfair business rates system 01 Apr 2025 - UK’s cities and councils call for fiscal devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Councils receive 4.4% increase in finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - No 10 power grab for NHS sparks backlash over ‘turf war’ 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors beg for extension to local council accounts deadline 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Chancellor has little chance of achieving economic growth goal’ 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 2,000 frail and elderly people are refused home help every day because they do not qualify for social care, new figures suggest 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria devo proposal sparks county fear of ‘super districts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Unions’ claim rejected as staff offered 2% pay deal 01 Apr 2025 - Gwynne calls for Government to scrap fair funding review 01 Apr 2025 - Government’s £170m bus boost a ‘drop in the ocean’ 01 Apr 2025 - Short-term fixes leaving NHS financially unstable 01 Apr 2025 - County warns of ‘predatory’ loan offers following PWLB rate rise 01 Apr 2025 - DfE schools funding clarification sparks treasurer unease 01 Apr 2025 - Lisa Nandy promises to let councillors nominate Labour leadership candidates 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax bills could rise by £70 as ministers confirm 4 per cent hike from April 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates blow 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in crisis with more tax rises and service cuts due 01 Apr 2025 - Motorbike firm which said UK would thrive outside of EU goes into administration 01 Apr 2025 - County offered devo deal with reorganisation and outsourced care services 01 Apr 2025 - Borough seeking unitary status sparks spending row 01 Apr 2025 - Scale of children’s funding gap revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Commission calls on government to devolve skills 01 Apr 2025 - Temporary accommodation industry worth £1.1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Northants targets £23m savings 01 Apr 2025 - Departmental savings of 5% will be hard to find 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers must heed local productivity gaps 01 Apr 2025 - UK regional productivity gap widest in a century 01 Apr 2025 - Mets set to benefit overall from funding review 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit rollout delayed again - to 2024 01 Apr 2025 - Adult Care crisis deepens as providers 'run out of options' 01 Apr 2025 - Glitch delays business rates relief for hundreds of companies 01 Apr 2025 - English schools buying in mental health support has 'almost doubled' in three years 01 Apr 2025 - Apprentice levy ‘failing small firms’ 01 Apr 2025 - Kent beefs up support for pension fund following Woodford losses 01 Apr 2025 - Tories will write minimum school funding into law 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers told to make cuts to pay for ‘radical agenda’ 01 Apr 2025 - Small music venues to get 50% reduction in business rates 01 Apr 2025 - NAO to probe one-off Government funding pots 01 Apr 2025 - Funding boost for rough sleepers initiative 01 Apr 2025 - Housing waiting list rises again as 17,000 social homes lost 01 Apr 2025 - Labour councils set to lose under new funding formula 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of councils overspend on homelessness as pressure mounts 01 Apr 2025 - Immigration salary threshold should drop by £4,400, says committee 01 Apr 2025 - E-scooters on UK roads set for the green light 01 Apr 2025 - English councils set to miss carbon emission targets 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors in fees increase warning 01 Apr 2025 - Cipfa resilience index: cause for concern? 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of pubs will see £1,000 slashed off business rates in reforms aimed at saving the High Street 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to fund upgrades to outdated council leisure facilities 01 Apr 2025 - UK borrowing falls ahead of March Budget 01 Apr 2025 - County lines gangs using Breaking Bad-style motorhomes as drug-dealing bases 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell Tower inquiry member Benita Mehra resigns 01 Apr 2025 - Former 'red wall' areas could lose millions in council funding review 01 Apr 2025 - Care home costs leap to £34,000 a year in the biggest jump for nearly a decade, new figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Police settlement ‘biggest in a decade’ 01 Apr 2025 - County lines drug gangs must be tackled nationally 01 Apr 2025 - NHS pledges elderly rapid response community teams 01 Apr 2025 - Universal Credit's regional divide exposed as 52% of Liverpool families worse off 01 Apr 2025 - Health watchdog reinspects care homes following inaccurate inspection reports 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of placing homeless people in B&Bs has risen by more than £20m 01 Apr 2025 - Tory manifesto author backs NHS-style social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - How the Labour leadership candidates stack up on local government 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of care for dementia sufferers saw war heroine 'abandoned' in hospital 01 Apr 2025 - Seven fixes for local government grant funding to tackle the North-South divide 01 Apr 2025 - Government to ‘name and shame’ owners of blocks with dangerous cladding 01 Apr 2025 - Shopping centre owner Intu seeks emergency cash 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Price rises warning after chancellor vows EU rules divergence 01 Apr 2025 - Local buses clocking lowest mileage in decades 01 Apr 2025 - Councils losing £250m a year through business rates avoidance 01 Apr 2025 - Ministerial intray: Signs so far are social care will not be a top priority 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson sends the House of Lords up north 01 Apr 2025 - Hull asks to be first UK city to trial universal basic income 01 Apr 2025 - Youth services suffer 70% funding cut in less than a decade 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens of social housing blocks still covered in Grenfell-style cladding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Government must give at least £2bn to replace EU regional funds’ 01 Apr 2025 - Lift-off for bonds agency as Lancashire agrees first deal 01 Apr 2025 - Officials have no idea how many people were forced to sell their houses to pay for social care, report reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Commercial income could be excluded from council funding calculations 01 Apr 2025 - Work to start on devolution deal for South Yorkshire 01 Apr 2025 - Officials have no idea how many people were forced to sell their houses to pay for social care, report reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Scores of tower blocks with Grenfell-style cladding have no plan in place to remove it, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates avoidance costs councils £250m a year, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Empty business rates relief 'costs £1bn' 01 Apr 2025 - Fall in inflation raises prospects of interest rate cut 01 Apr 2025 - Government lifts four-year freeze on Local Housing Allowance 01 Apr 2025 - 20% spike in pothole-related breakdowns 01 Apr 2025 - Sector accused of ‘overreacting’ to PWLB rates rise as alternatives line up 01 Apr 2025 - Boris backtracks on cross-party social care solution 01 Apr 2025 - Care fee divide gets worse as new report reveals nursing home residents who pay their own bills are charged £250 a week more than those who are state-funded 01 Apr 2025 - Care firm's leadership criticised by Care Quality Commission 01 Apr 2025 - 90 online abuse crimes against children recorded a day, NSPCC estimates 01 Apr 2025 - UK GDP: Pound slips on unexpectedly weak growth figures 01 Apr 2025 - South west launches growth alliance to rival Northern Powerhouse 01 Apr 2025 - Roundtable: Making NHS-council collaboration work 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary leadership ordered to seek support over children’s failure 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson urged to tackle climate emergency as poll shows huge support for carbon emission cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Sugar tax is WORKING: Britons' consumption of sugar has dropped by a teaspoon a day since tax on sweetened drinks was launched 01 Apr 2025 - Rural motorists more likely to drive on pothole ridden roads as figures show cities spend three times more on repairs 01 Apr 2025 - Families sending relatives with dementia to Thailand for care 01 Apr 2025 - Crimes next to primary schools go up sharply 01 Apr 2025 - Climate emergency: Boris Johnson faces calls to step up action as poll shows public support for accelerated cuts in carbon emissions 01 Apr 2025 - Millions left unspent on NHS as councils fail to cash in on money from housing developers 01 Apr 2025 - Lisa Nandy: 'Councils must have the power to run bus services for people, not profits' 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for seat at table in children's care review 01 Apr 2025 - Scottish fury at ‘unprecedented’ Budget delay 01 Apr 2025 - Council buys £10m out-of-area commercial property 01 Apr 2025 - County’s unitary call ignites reorganisation row 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry creates new hub to oversee Towns Fund 01 Apr 2025 - A&E staff 'despair' as NHS delays are at their worst ever level 01 Apr 2025 - MPs reject Labour's call to reinstate child refugee pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Housing-benefit errors 'making families homeless' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils under huge pressure as number of children in care soars 01 Apr 2025 - UK budget date is 'disrespectful to devolution', says Derek Mackay 01 Apr 2025 - HS2 spending ‘out of control’, says former review official 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted seeks judgement-free approach to 'stuck schools' 01 Apr 2025 - Quarter of minimum wage workers underpaid, says study 01 Apr 2025 - 'Infrastructure revolution' in March Budget 01 Apr 2025 - More pupils to get access to free school breakfasts and meals in the holidays in fight against child hunger 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 3.5 million UK working age people have never had a job, report says 01 Apr 2025 - Troubled families will be helped to get their lives back on track with a new funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Number of children admitted to A&E with mental health problems jumps 330 per cent over past decade 01 Apr 2025 - Rogue landlords who house tenants in freezing homes to be targeted by government crackdown 01 Apr 2025 - Arts Council boss vows more funding for those at early stages of career 01 Apr 2025 - Almost one in 10 children miss lessons without the school's permission to go on holiday, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Voters tell Boris Johnson they prefer public services to tax cuts

2019

01 Apr 2025 - York wants private cars banned in three years 01 Apr 2025 - Call to end ‘scandal’ of child in care costing four times annual fee for Eton 01 Apr 2025 - Foster agencies add pressure on UK to take child refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Poor white boys are underdogs of the education system 01 Apr 2025 - Charity calls for more adopters 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in families seeking help for youngsters with special needs 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson warned to act Immediately to end social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: councils paid inadequate care homes £2.3m to house children 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury to rip up public spending rules in cash boost for north and Midlands 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: thousands of children in care placed in unregulated homes 01 Apr 2025 - Leisure centres close as spending on council-run sports facilities plunges 01 Apr 2025 - Amount of flood-prone land used for new houses in England doubles in a year, figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Boxing Day sales 2019: Climate crisis fears will 'drive Britons away from shops' 01 Apr 2025 - Hedge funds bet against recovery on high street 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of children in care over 100 miles away from family 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson announces extra money to tackle homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers accused of ‘abject failure’ as fewer people get on their bikes 01 Apr 2025 - Government promises to engage with sector in business rates review 01 Apr 2025 - Devon town councillor calls for babysitting allowance 01 Apr 2025 - Chaotic diaries of headteachers' weeks expose shocking truth of crippling budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England keeps interest rates on hold 01 Apr 2025 - More than 28% of England's secondary schools now in the red, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - State Opening: Queen to outline PM's Brexit and NHS agenda 01 Apr 2025 - OBR deficit prediction ‘sobering warning’ for new government 01 Apr 2025 - London Fire Brigade 'slow to learn' and needs improvement, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Shropshire faces £51m funding gap over five years 01 Apr 2025 - [opinion] Rob Whiteman: Tory spending pledges don’t reflect stress on public services 01 Apr 2025 - Former West Sussex leader and chief dispute blame as direction issued 01 Apr 2025 - Oxford City Council announces £19m climate change emergency budget 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall silence as Gwynne calls for provisional settlement 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA resilience index shows just 10% of councils are at financial risk 01 Apr 2025 - Shaw to replace Elvery at West Sussex 01 Apr 2025 - David Williams: Give counties the power and money to level up ‘left behind’ places 01 Apr 2025 - Sector remains ‘lukewarm’ about ‘crude’ resilience index 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick’s re-appointment confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Incoming London fire chief to prioritise rebuilding trust of Grenfell community 01 Apr 2025 - No home for 280,000 on Christmas Day in England, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Bus travel hits record low amid 3.3% fares rise 01 Apr 2025 - Zero-emission street to ban petrol and diesel vehicles 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit bill to rule out extension to transition period 01 Apr 2025 - Blue badge fraud up 18%, say official figures 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2019: Hart gets Welsh post in government reshuffle 01 Apr 2025 - London Fire Brigade 'slow and wasteful', according to inspectors 01 Apr 2025 - What does business want from Boris Johnson? 01 Apr 2025 - Massive £33billion cash boost for NHS will be enshrined in law 01 Apr 2025 - Abuse of politicians ‘undermining democracy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson to announce new laws to ban train strikes, toughen prison sentences and stop landlords evicting their tenants this week 01 Apr 2025 - Reserves grow at county a year on from s114 threat 01 Apr 2025 - How the parties’ manifestos compare on local government funding 01 Apr 2025 - Council fined £500,000 after death of woman with dementia 01 Apr 2025 - West Sussex’s financial position worsens by £15m in two months 01 Apr 2025 - Labour promises to spend £10bn on free personal care 01 Apr 2025 - Official figures ‘hiding true scale of A&E waits’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit out at 'unfair' restrictions on flood repair funding 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis: English councils ramp up charges for services 01 Apr 2025 - Talk of the towns: the battle to support ‘left-behind’ areas 01 Apr 2025 - £845k in charity grants supporting disabled people in London 01 Apr 2025 - Tim Elwell-Sutton: No party manifesto goes far enough on public health 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: one in five school buildings in England require urgent repairs 01 Apr 2025 - Poor children lose out on exercise, research suggests 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2019: Labour pledges more help for smaller firms 01 Apr 2025 - Could 'slow shopping' revive the high street? 01 Apr 2025 - Does Boris Johnson's pledge to fix social care system stack up? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - One in eight care homes has closed – despite record numbers of older Brits 01 Apr 2025 - Social care crisis wastes £½m of NHS money a day 01 Apr 2025 - Tories announce £4.2bn public transport fund for combined authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax on empty properties set to be raised by Bolton Council 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in outstanding business rates challenges ‘creating bottleneck’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tory plans would further squeeze councils’ budgets, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services ‘close to collapse’, says charity chief executive 01 Apr 2025 - Seven charts on the £73,000 cost of educating a child 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2019: Tory and Labour spending plans 'not credible' - IFS 01 Apr 2025 - UK inequality 'among worst of developed countries' 01 Apr 2025 - Paul Swinney: What are Labour and the Conservatives offering cities? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Parts of England 'have higher mortality rates than Turkey' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ income from business rates rises 5% 01 Apr 2025 - Charity demands action on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Promises for councils in ‘£135bn’ Labour manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - LGA to draw up funding alternatives amid fears for ‘antiquated’ business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Economists warn of deficit rise as borrowing hits 5-year high 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson under fire over 'vague' social care funding plans 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly half of British motorists fear the UK's pothole-riven roads are getting worse, with rural areas the hardest hit 01 Apr 2025 - Council service spending grows by 1.9% 01 Apr 2025 - PF and CIPFA to monitor election spending promises 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ income from business rates rises 5% 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly half of British motorists fear the UK's pothole-riven roads are getting worse, with rural areas the hardest hit 01 Apr 2025 - Clean air for all: Hedges can halve pollution in playgrounds 01 Apr 2025 - Older people dying for want of social care at rate of three an hour 01 Apr 2025 - 'Half of women will be carers by the age of 46' 01 Apr 2025 - Housebuilding data shows dearth of homes for affordable renting 01 Apr 2025 - Fielding suggests return to revenue support grant 01 Apr 2025 - Gary Fielding: Is there a better way for business rates? 01 Apr 2025 - Guidance recommends sale of risky investment properties 01 Apr 2025 - Social care must be solved by next government, coalition of charities and councils tell Telegraph 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in number of council tax fraud cases 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services budgets blown as spend continues to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates: 'We might as well hand back the keys' 01 Apr 2025 - Data reveals the 20 UK cities with declining high streets 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2019: PM puts corporation cuts on hold to help fund NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Killer potholes: More than 250 cyclists have been killed or seriously injured in crashes caused by potholes in the past five years 01 Apr 2025 - Why more people are talking about the issue of social care 01 Apr 2025 - One visit to care home shows why we can't go on like this 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector leaders call for more joined-up working 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend more than £1.1bn on temporary housing for homeless people in space of a year 01 Apr 2025 - One in 50 'children in need' are not yet born 01 Apr 2025 - Councils get just 27p from every £1 collected by bailiffs – and it’s pushing households into debt 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation falls to three-year low as energy prices fall 01 Apr 2025 - Severe flooding becomes election campaign issue 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of people with autism wrongly being detained in mental health units 01 Apr 2025 - UK wage growth slows as unemployment falls 01 Apr 2025 - UK GDP: Britain ducks recession but annual growth weakest since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of UK workers' pay to rise as living wage increases 01 Apr 2025 - GDP monthly estimate, UK: September 2019 01 Apr 2025 - Government activates Bellwin scheme to support local communities hit by flooding 01 Apr 2025 - Slavery offences soar as county lines are targeted 01 Apr 2025 - Call for reform of pupil exclusions 'as schools unaware of legal duties' 01 Apr 2025 - Cancellations of NHS child mental health sessions jump 25% 01 Apr 2025 - Faith schools contribute millions of pounds less towards own costs, figures suggest 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'need billions more to fund adult care as population ages' 01 Apr 2025 - Council finance settlement timing “up to new government” 01 Apr 2025 - Tories and Labour announce spending plans 01 Apr 2025 - Care home operators accused of extracting 'disguised' profits 01 Apr 2025 - Commissioner details ‘disturbing narratives’ in West Sussex 01 Apr 2025 - Williamson derided over ‘don’t disrupt children’s Christmas’ poll demand 01 Apr 2025 - Ofcom selects Melanie Dawes as chief executive 01 Apr 2025 - Public health cuts have ‘hit poor hardest’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils asked to avoid using schools as polling stations 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates retention rise ‘will make council income inequality worse’ 01 Apr 2025 - Care review for thousands of patients with learning disabilities and autism 01 Apr 2025 - None of pledged starter homes built, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Care children sexually abused or exploited while missing from homes 01 Apr 2025 - General Election 2019: Public spending 'to rocket' in next parliament 01 Apr 2025 - Benefits freeze to end in 2020, government confirms 01 Apr 2025 - Home-to-school transport for special educational needs children under threat as costs rise and funds are cut 01 Apr 2025 - Number of new rough sleepers in London increases by 50% in one year 01 Apr 2025 - Single tier fear reignited 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor announces £250m ‘infrastructure revolution’ 01 Apr 2025 - First council built care home in decades opens in Liverpool 01 Apr 2025 - Local government sector guide to tackling loneliness launched 01 Apr 2025 - Failure of £350m Four Seasons deal proof social care is not ‘properly’ funded 01 Apr 2025 - Government careers advice scheme will fail to reach thousands of young people, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - City could become first in UK to completely ban diesel cars 01 Apr 2025 - Pace of fracking slower than anticipated 01 Apr 2025 - Opinion: Spending Review needs to address ‘plague of potholes’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils pessimistic about impact of Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - High streets in danger as planning applications from retailers plummet 01 Apr 2025 - PWLB interest rate rise won’t have dramatic effect on council costs, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire Council 'failed' grandmother by demanding £11k 01 Apr 2025 - Labour calls for release of forecasts for Javid’s scrapped budget 01 Apr 2025 - Ten new towns to bolster regions after Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Robots capable of caring for the elderly are being developed in £34m government project amid staffing crisis in social care 01 Apr 2025 - Javid writes to new treasury committee chair to announce Budget cancelled 01 Apr 2025 - UK’s health capital funding ‘lags behind that of other developed countries’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Nearly a fifth of parents quit jobs because of childcare costs’ 01 Apr 2025 - Some parts of UK ageing twice as fast as others, new research finds 01 Apr 2025 - £400m for school buildings is 'too little, too late', says union 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to vote on Boris Johnson's 12 December election call 01 Apr 2025 - Transport department bids for long term funds to fix Britain's potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Error found in UK public finances, official statistics body admits 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: EU considers extension as MPs mull election 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Flawed’ Safety Test Leaves Thousands At Risk Of Grenfell-Style Fire, Government Warned 01 Apr 2025 - Overhaul exclusions to beat knife crime, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Extinction Rebellion: Met Police’s London-wide ban on protests was unlawful, court hears 01 Apr 2025 - School funding boost 'too little too late', say hundreds of protesting parents 01 Apr 2025 - High Street: How many UK shops have closed? 01 Apr 2025 - 'Unlawful practices and buck passing' over special needs 01 Apr 2025 - Powys council plans to open children's care home 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates reform key, says Labour business chairman Rachel Reeves 01 Apr 2025 - UK government borrowing up by a fifth over past six months 01 Apr 2025 - Airbnb probed by UK tax authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts take toll on support for visually impaired pupils 01 Apr 2025 - World economy is sleepwalking into a new financial crisis, warns Mervyn King 01 Apr 2025 - UK population forecast to reach nearly 70 million in the next nine years 01 Apr 2025 - Police arrest 743 in blitz on 'county lines' drugs gangs 01 Apr 2025 - Free schools ‘not helping disadvantaged pupils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Pension tax relief to cost public purse nearly £40bn 01 Apr 2025 - Chanceller urged to scrap inflationary business rate rise 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson Confirms Agreed Brexit Deal 01 Apr 2025 - Troubled fund shut down leaving Kent council waiting for repayments 01 Apr 2025 - Care for mental health patients has deteriorated in England, regulators say 01 Apr 2025 - County publishes business case for single unitary 01 Apr 2025 - Queen’s Speech sets out Boris Johnson’s election manifesto 01 Apr 2025 - Vaping: 'I'm 17, and rarely ID'd for e-cigs' 01 Apr 2025 - How councils 'ignoring the law' on social care forces families apart 01 Apr 2025 - NHS sets out to tackle homelessness crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: the private landlords profiting from England’s housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Families in England hit by 70% cut in school uniform grant 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Sajid Javid reveals date of next Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Labour's nationalisation price tag would start at £196bn, CBI says 01 Apr 2025 - PM seeks to thrust law and order on to agenda in Queen’s speech 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of wrecking plans to build more social housing 01 Apr 2025 - Extinction Rebellion could disrupt Queen opening Parliament 01 Apr 2025 - Modular homes endorsed by Prince William to be built by charity to 'end youth homelessness' 01 Apr 2025 - South east seeks rail fare freeze to help double economy 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of pensioners could be homeless in next 10 years due to soaring rent costs 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA proposals to 'revolutionise financial reporting' 01 Apr 2025 - Living wage boost would benefit hundreds of thousands of council staff 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit casts its shadow over budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech: What is it and why is it important? 01 Apr 2025 - More than three million Brits struggling to pay basic bills like council tax 01 Apr 2025 - NHS bosses warn of social care timebomb 01 Apr 2025 - Leaked Brexit planning memo offers no new guidance for departing EU 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson’s spending spree threatens to leave no cash for tax cuts 01 Apr 2025 - No-deal Brexit would push borrowing above £100bn, IFS warns 01 Apr 2025 - Fuller: Counties also under threat if devo push has unitary focus 01 Apr 2025 - Javid announces £4.3bn Brexit 'funding guarantee' 01 Apr 2025 - Climate change targets ‘unlikely to be met’ without funding, council chiefs say 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Councils should be reduced in size to make savings’ 01 Apr 2025 - Queen’s Speech ‘must give councils greater fiscal freedom’ 01 Apr 2025 - Consultation opens on local government finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson reveals £5bn broadband bonanza 01 Apr 2025 - Time is running out for councils to receive EU replacement fund, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - Minister confirms creation of Northamptonshire unitary authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Social care for smokers costing councils £720m a year 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Johnson’s tax plans will cost economy billions 01 Apr 2025 - Government takes the first steps in a bus revolution? 01 Apr 2025 - Javid announces white paper as devo ‘regains its Bojo’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tories tot up cost of free social care 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors get tough new rules after high?profile collapses 01 Apr 2025 - Tory conference: Government confirms £25bn for road upgrades 01 Apr 2025 - Number of empty shops in UK at highest level for five years 01 Apr 2025 - No-deal Brexit 'still risk to NHS and care sector' 01 Apr 2025 - England's most deprived areas named as Jaywick and Blackpool 01 Apr 2025 - Youth services ‘decimated by 69 per cent’ in less than a decade amid surge in knife crime, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Minister handed Brexit cash demand in Portsmouth 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces over £10 million for 5 more coastal communities 01 Apr 2025 - UK ‘needs £128bn’ to solve the housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Peterborough City Council to tackle homelessness with its own housing company 01 Apr 2025 - Call for views on the financial reporting of local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Call for views on the financial reporting of local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Council to 'terminate' care company 01 Apr 2025 - Think-tank calls for more local taxes 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson ignores LGA social care deadline 01 Apr 2025 - [Opinion] The Treasury needs to take a place-based view 01 Apr 2025 - Where not to live if you want a good care home 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool ‘in crisis’ over £57.6m funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Wasteful’ Treasury slammed for impact on services 01 Apr 2025 - Research reveals councils' top Brexit risks 01 Apr 2025 - Providers: No-deal ‘could lead to social care statutory duty failure’ 01 Apr 2025 - 'Care crisis': Sent-away children are 'easy victims' 01 Apr 2025 - Why audit needs auditing 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Armchair auditors’ frustrated by attempts at accounts scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - Stinging criticism over ministry's double rates error 01 Apr 2025 - Legal action threatens council income 01 Apr 2025 - Positive results found for axed project 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £1bn on shopping centres 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset auditors recognise improved finances 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review saves council from depleting reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Peterborough capital receipts episode prompts prudential framework review 01 Apr 2025 - Council PWLB borrowing hits record level in August 01 Apr 2025 - Number of households in temporary residence highest since 2007 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils struggling to support SEND children, auditors warn 01 Apr 2025 - Government pledges £62m flood funding for communities in England 01 Apr 2025 - Chief executives demand 10% pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Retailers call for action as high street store closures soar 01 Apr 2025 - Britain has biggest primary school classes in the developed world, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Round 2019: what you need to know 01 Apr 2025 - Major Review into Support for Children with Special Educational Needs 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Government to launch major review into support for children with special needs 01 Apr 2025 - Gap in academic skills of girls and boys widens, show Sats 01 Apr 2025 - Snack tax 'could be more effective than sugary drinks levy' 01 Apr 2025 - Spending review: Outlined 01 Apr 2025 - Burns to be Cipfa director 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor set to unveil government spending plans 01 Apr 2025 - Food banks increasing in schools for pupils' families 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review: What's it all about? 01 Apr 2025 - [BBC] General Election expected should Opposition Brexit Bill succeed 01 Apr 2025 - Councils facing £2.4bn black hole in social care funding urge the Government to continue grants which make up 29% of their cash 01 Apr 2025 - Price collapse threatens paper recycling collections 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA index 'must be forward-looking' 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit blow as councils miss MHCLG deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Two local government pension funds record total deficits of £14.5m 01 Apr 2025 - Stabilising Northamptonshire County Council 01 Apr 2025 - Combined authority moots buses takeover 01 Apr 2025 - Updated: £700m will form part of high needs block 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: No 10 'considering' election amid no-deal battle with MPs 01 Apr 2025 - UK factory output 'falls at fastest pace for seven years' 01 Apr 2025 - Labour could give private tenants chance to buy their rented homes 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in defence spending catches chancellor Sajid Javid off guard 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher starting salaries could rise to £30,000 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid pledges £400m further education funding 01 Apr 2025 - Umbrella groups make Spending Round plea for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid’s spending round set to focus on vote winners 01 Apr 2025 - Parliament suspension sparks furious backlash 01 Apr 2025 - Give schools incentives to admit more special needs children, councils urge 01 Apr 2025 - £3.5bn education package not enough, say school leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over children's care 'crisis' amid claims of councils overspend reaching £770m 01 Apr 2025 - Javid pledges spending review cash for schools, NHS and police 01 Apr 2025 - £4bn school funding boost set to be confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - Schools set for long-awaited cash injection 01 Apr 2025 - £800m overspend on children's social care 01 Apr 2025 - England school places shortage 'made worse by academies' 01 Apr 2025 - 'Alarm bells' over private equity foster care firms, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - 5G: Rural areas could see bigger and taller masts 01 Apr 2025 - Number of 16 to 24 year olds not in education, employment or training jumps by 30,000 01 Apr 2025 - No-deal Brexit 'will see more waste going to landfill' 01 Apr 2025 - 130,000 families with children live in one-bed flats 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit 'forces tenants into rent arrears' 01 Apr 2025 - Call to abandon coastal towns before sea claims them 01 Apr 2025 - Council reserves rise to record levels 01 Apr 2025 - Campaigners warn that special needs children have been forced out of mainstream schools 01 Apr 2025 - Disadvantaged teenagers more likely to score low GCSE grades 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor fast-tracks Spending Round to free up departments to prepare for Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Government's budget surplus shrinks in July 01 Apr 2025 - District had ‘no choice’ in leaving LEP 01 Apr 2025 - No-deal papers reveal council fears over food supply 01 Apr 2025 - North ‘to receive £2,300 less per person in transport spending than London’ 01 Apr 2025 - London planned transport spending 'seven times more per head than for Yorkshire' 01 Apr 2025 - A love letter to my hometown high street 01 Apr 2025 - Special educational needs crisis deepens as councils bust their budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Council-owned solar farm generates £1.2m for frontline services 01 Apr 2025 - Electric buses: Wales' first to hit the roads in Newport 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid will 'simplify' the tax system in first Budget 01 Apr 2025 - State Pension Age should be raised to 75 to boost economy, argues think tank founded by ex-Tory leader 01 Apr 2025 - Hike in council spend on external legal advice, research finds 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire trebles deficit projection 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders call for £39bn for Northern Powerhouse Rail project 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes forced to drop nurse provision amid staffing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for billions to fix North’s ‘creaking infrastructure’ 01 Apr 2025 - Stop cuts to adult social care, petition urges 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless person dying every 19 hours in UK, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Druid Heath's disused Baverstock Academy costs council £241k 01 Apr 2025 - Asda and Boots urge reform of 'broken' rates system 01 Apr 2025 - Local government ‘shut out’ of Brexit discussions, Labour warns 01 Apr 2025 - More children being cared for in failing council services, says think tank 01 Apr 2025 - Government activates emergency funds for flood-hit councils 01 Apr 2025 - Real pay cut for millions since 2010, TUC study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - David Davies MP: General election will be called next month 01 Apr 2025 - Northants finance director to leave after 12-month term 01 Apr 2025 - Stay of execution for civil servants’ £95,000 redundancy cap 01 Apr 2025 - PSAA records dramatic rise in delayed audit opinions 01 Apr 2025 - Electric cars to enter next gear as government doubles funding for charging points on residential streets 01 Apr 2025 - Dams in danger of flooding as dozens in need of safety work 01 Apr 2025 - High Streets hit as shop vacancy rate worst since 2015 01 Apr 2025 - U.K. Economy Unexpectedly Shrinks for First Time Since 2012 01 Apr 2025 - Million more young adults still living with parents 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister opens first meeting of National Policing Board 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of sexual offences reported against children aged four to eight 01 Apr 2025 - Dame Barbara Windsor calls on Boris Johnson to improve dementia care 01 Apr 2025 - Jenrick announces £10m for council ‘Brexit leads’ 01 Apr 2025 - John McDonnell questions chancellor's suitability for office 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘poor relations of Whitehall’ in no deal funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will share £20m extra to fund no-deal tsars 01 Apr 2025 - UK spends less on social care than nearly all the other countries in Western Europe with dementia patients among the worst affected by spending shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Anger as government set to spend five times more on 'propaganda' than helping councils prepare for no deal 01 Apr 2025 - Resolution Foundation says council tax unfairly burdens the poor 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in poorer areas ‘to lose out on pupil funding’ 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare costs set to soar following Government proposals to raise registration costs by 20 per cent 01 Apr 2025 - Number of over-16s going into care increases 25% in four years, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: How have UK councils prepared? 01 Apr 2025 - Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has a plan to 'fix the crisis in social care once and for all' 01 Apr 2025 - Will Boris Johnson's present for hard-up teachers be enough? 01 Apr 2025 - Johnson pledges billions of pounds to ‘left behind towns’ 01 Apr 2025 - Value of PWLB loans to local authorities rises 75% 01 Apr 2025 - £1m boost to sports projects that keep young Londoners out of violent crime 01 Apr 2025 - Disadvantaged pupils 'stuck 18 months behind' 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly a quarter of the UK's dementia care homes are failing, with many patients neglected and left at risk in 'toxic' environment, new report shows 01 Apr 2025 - More than 4m in UK are trapped in deep poverty, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid: What should we expect from new chancellor? 01 Apr 2025 - School funding top priority for Gavin Williamson 01 Apr 2025 - Controversial Help to Buy scheme may be extended 01 Apr 2025 - NI civil servants strike over pay and conditions 01 Apr 2025 - Robert Jenrick takes over after Brokenshire sacked 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson: We will fix the crisis in social care once and for all 01 Apr 2025 - Prevention green paper blasted as ‘shopping list of half-complete ideas’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government pumps £348million into new schemes to improve local roads 01 Apr 2025 - Schools face cutbacks to fund pay rise for teachers in England 01 Apr 2025 - Schools face cutbacks to fund pay rise for teachers in England 01 Apr 2025 - Government offers 'inflation-busting' pay rises 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn SEN costs ‘spiralling out of control’ 01 Apr 2025 - £2bn public sector pay rise to have limited impact 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA launches drive for ‘easier to understand’ public accounts 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Anything but inclusive’: No school places for three disabled sisters 01 Apr 2025 - SEND duties ‘increasing pressure on councils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rise: May gives £2bn to teachers, police and armed forces 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in country have far less to spend on elderly than those in cities 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Anything but inclusive’: No school places for three disabled sisters 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA launches drive for ‘easier to understand’ public accounts 01 Apr 2025 - No deal Brexit ‘will create £30bn black hole’ 01 Apr 2025 - SEND duties ‘increasing pressure on councils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay rise: May gives £2bn to teachers, police and armed forces 01 Apr 2025 - Rubbish-tip 'tax' for households prompts fears of a surge in dumping 01 Apr 2025 - Doctors, teachers and police to share in £4bn-a-year pension boost 01 Apr 2025 - ‘More clarity required’ despite pension ruling 01 Apr 2025 - Forget the spending review, we should be talking about taxation 01 Apr 2025 - Unions united on pay claim as Unite back 10% rise 01 Apr 2025 - A proper plan is needed for local government funding 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Core offer’ not enough to reduce county’s budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Councils welcome government review of guidance for youth services 01 Apr 2025 - Councils featured in Government’s £135m health research fund 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA backs alternative tool for measuring councils’ financial resilience 01 Apr 2025 - Audit review raises prospect of new transparency rules for s151s 01 Apr 2025 - Audit review raises prospect of new transparency rules for s151s 01 Apr 2025 - UK 'scarily' exposed to next major downturn, economists warn Save 01 Apr 2025 - High street suffers 'summer slump' as Brexit and wet weather bite 01 Apr 2025 - Lack of homes suitable for older people fuels housing crisis – report 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries told to focus on books as lending slumps 01 Apr 2025 - Enterprise zones 'failed to deliver' jobs boost in England 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Well-run’ council faces £15m budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - UK to become a ‘smoke free’ nation by 2030, leaked government document says 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May’s multi-billion pound school splurge could include a pay rise for teachers 01 Apr 2025 - Essex drops library closure plans following sustained public protests 01 Apr 2025 - Katherine Fairclough: Sparsity tests your leadership 01 Apr 2025 - Inner London boroughs back fair funding delay 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Shattering £15billion cost of 'cruel and unfair' bills that families have paid in just 2 years to care for loved ones with dementia 01 Apr 2025 - Future High Streets fund shortlist revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Court date set for NHS business rates challenge 01 Apr 2025 - County Councils Network announces new chairman 01 Apr 2025 - LEPs ‘lack transparency’ despite receiving £12bn of Government funding 01 Apr 2025 - NHS waiting lists surge due to pensions row 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire CC delivers ‘remarkable’ multi-million underspend 01 Apr 2025 - Matt Hancock: social care green paper held up by 'partisan politics' 01 Apr 2025 - Twelve children's homes closed down by Ofsted 01 Apr 2025 - The Communities Secretary's speech at the LGA Conference 2019 01 Apr 2025 - The Guardian view on the social care impasse: hurting people and politics [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Government has to answer questions on council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'in the dark' over future funding amid cash warnings 01 Apr 2025 - Funding of local authorities’ children’s services: government response to the Select Committee report 01 Apr 2025 - Spending on children number one worry, says Hillier 01 Apr 2025 - Young people face ‘renting into retirement’, council chiefs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Striking the right balance - James Maker 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare might become 'available only in rich areas' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils sitting on billions in reserves while cutting back services 01 Apr 2025 - Landmark High Court case told of ‘genuine crisis’ in special educational needs funding 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeships pledge 'will be missed' 01 Apr 2025 - Variation victory as LGA lobbies Treasury 01 Apr 2025 - Councils save over £1bn by sharing services, council chiefs say 01 Apr 2025 - Cambridge school PTA asks parents to raise £60k to plug budget gap 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt admits Tory social care cuts went too far 01 Apr 2025 - Concern as county cancels integration deal 01 Apr 2025 - Rising levels of poverty in working families 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for 195-year-old Vagrancy Act to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Campaigners renew calls for UK to accept 10,000 child refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts to social care funding went too far, admits Jeremy Hunt 01 Apr 2025 - UK's problem debtors to get 60-day 'breathing space' 01 Apr 2025 - '£3.8bn needed to reverse school cuts' 01 Apr 2025 - 'Stuck in the past' 01 Apr 2025 - Fifth of lead finance officers not at top table 01 Apr 2025 - Councils slam ‘misleading’ BBC reserves danger list 01 Apr 2025 - Review concludes public health should stay with councils 01 Apr 2025 - Truss admits spending review 'unlikely' in time for 2020-21 01 Apr 2025 - Truss admits spending review 'unlikely' in time for 2020-21 01 Apr 2025 - Labour report calls for radical tax and planning reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Sure Start centres 'big benefit' but face cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Corbyn unveils plans for 'progressive' tax raid on homes and gardens of the middle class 01 Apr 2025 - Rough sleeping: Arrests fall as police brand law 'archaic' 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry offers 'goodwill' cash after repeating rates pilot blunder 01 Apr 2025 - 19 face audit delay due to EY staffing issues 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding system ‘unsustainable’, financial experts warn 01 Apr 2025 - Three-quarters of councils move to insource services 01 Apr 2025 - May resignation sparks fears for fair funding in 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry offers 'goodwill' cash after repeating rates pilot blunder 01 Apr 2025 - Home Secretary Sajid Javid pledges £1bn to put an extra 20,000 bobbies on the beat after admitting there is a link between budget cuts and soaring crime rates 01 Apr 2025 - Councils across the UK have spent £74million in just two years on maintaining 6,000 empty buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Amazon to open 10 pop-up shops in UK town centres 01 Apr 2025 - Families rally against special educational needs funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - English 'short-changed on care funding' 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding 'unsustainable' as budgets cut by 20% 01 Apr 2025 - Why councils are bringing millions of pounds worth of services back in-house 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs: Petition demands end to 'national crisis' 01 Apr 2025 - English councils warned about 'exhausting' reserve cash 01 Apr 2025 - Council spending on local services down 21% over past decade 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax ‘only regressive tax in the UK’ 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury ‘must do better’ on Whole of Government Accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in special needs pupils forced to attend out-of-area schools 01 Apr 2025 - Free social care for the elderly could save NHS £4.5bn a year, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils with special educational needs to stage funding protests 01 Apr 2025 - Funding gap forces national cycling targets off track 01 Apr 2025 - BBC Panorama: Crisis in Care 01 Apr 2025 - County director takes on lead STP role 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for coordinated bus strategy to address decline 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk County Council: Extra cuts to hit children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Tory council chief warns of social care funding shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - English councils 'face £50bn funding black hole' 01 Apr 2025 - Bus services outside London need reform, MPs warn amid passenger decline 01 Apr 2025 - Even ‘draconian cuts won’t be enough’ as councils face £50bn funding blackhole 01 Apr 2025 - 'Broken' care system for most vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to take control of bus services 01 Apr 2025 - Social care shake-up delayed again after row over who will pay for new system 01 Apr 2025 - Teens in care 'abandoned to crime gangs' 01 Apr 2025 - £200m boost for rural super-fast broadband 01 Apr 2025 - Troubled Northamptonshire makes ‘unprecedented’ in-year turnaround 01 Apr 2025 - Carillion's ‘relationship with auditors too comfortable’ 01 Apr 2025 - Home Secretary Sajid Javid calls for tax reforms to cut red tape as small business deserts Tories, with 62 per cent saying Government is no longer on their side 01 Apr 2025 - Central-local relations at 'all-time low' - study 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman calls for fair funding delay 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire: Unitary authorities plan approved 01 Apr 2025 - Knife crime prevention being ‘seriously hampered’ as councils left in dark about youth offending funding 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG oversight of local authority governance 'reactive and ill-informed' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils restructuring in face of ‘unparalleled cuts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Report urges prevention rather than cure in public health spending 01 Apr 2025 - Council pays out over £40,000 for ‘mistakes’ in respite centre closure 01 Apr 2025 - Deal signed to deliver 3,000 new homes in Nottinghamshire 01 Apr 2025 - Update on Northamptonshire - Written Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Female unemployment rate lowest since 1971 01 Apr 2025 - Instant fines for idling drivers ‘would send message about pollution’ 01 Apr 2025 - Spend £2.7bn more to tackle organised crime, says NCA chief 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health spending varies widely across England 01 Apr 2025 - Tories hold on to LGA by tiny margin 01 Apr 2025 - Truss: Spending Review will prioritise SEND children 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be placed under legal duty to house victims of domestic abuse 01 Apr 2025 - Introduce ‘smart bins’ and hand out tax cuts to drive up recycling, urges think tank 01 Apr 2025 - Councils get £30m boost to look after asylum seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - Councils get £30m boost to look after asylum seeking children 01 Apr 2025 - Government agrees to £30m a year South Yorkshire devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office increases funding for child refugees after warnings lone minors were being left 'in limbo' 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall ‘unwilling’ to help the high street, committee says 01 Apr 2025 - How rural Britain's 'failing' bus routes compare to our European neighbours 01 Apr 2025 - Basic income of £48 a week in UK urged 01 Apr 2025 - Excluded pupils' results 'to be part of league tables' 01 Apr 2025 - Youth club closures put young people at risk of violence, warn MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Rising knife crime linked to council cuts, study suggests 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Massively unfair’ gulf in bus fares between London and rest of England 01 Apr 2025 - Academisation rebellion: parents resist school takeovers 01 Apr 2025 - Schools 'should fine parents who swear at teachers, skip parents' evenings and fail to enforce their children's detentions' 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections: Results in maps and charts 01 Apr 2025 - Schools sports facilities may open in summer to fight child obesity 01 Apr 2025 - Health visiting services on 'knife-edge' as cuts take toll 01 Apr 2025 - County chiefs call for government to lead on reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Secret to happiness? A free bus pass in your 60s as researchers link fewer symptoms of depression with concessionary travel cards 01 Apr 2025 - Election 2019: Council polls to take place across England and NI 01 Apr 2025 - Children's services 'at breaking point', MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Leeds child obesity: ‘My two-year-old only ate baked beans’ 01 Apr 2025 - Four Seasons Health Care: Care home giant on brink of collapse 01 Apr 2025 - Queen’s speech delayed until Brexit deal reached 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors find ‘significant weaknesses’ in record-breaking investment deal and slam Surrey [district] council’s £1bn ‘property roulette’ 01 Apr 2025 - Rural areas 'ignored' by Government, Lords claim 01 Apr 2025 - Social care: Homeowners urged to pay £30,000 towards care by downsizing 01 Apr 2025 - Former cabinet minister unveils plan to tackle care funding crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Unexpected rise in voter registrations 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges to fund 160k extra care packages 01 Apr 2025 - Amount of unpaid council tax rises to £3bn 01 Apr 2025 - Over 1,500 pubs close since controversial business rates revaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Government to hear Brexit legal base fears 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review could be next year because of Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - SEND funding cut by more than £1bn as nine in 10 councils hit ‘massive funding shortfall’ 01 Apr 2025 - What about social care? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS governance consultation moots s151 responsibilities split 01 Apr 2025 - High Court ruling clarifies councils’ SEND funding duties 01 Apr 2025 - County and district push ahead with 'non-structural reform' 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness charity wins £3.6m lottery grant 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs provision in schools cut by over £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Have the poorest councils had the biggest cuts? 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health patients detained in hospital wards for up to 21 years 01 Apr 2025 - UK falls behind on public service spending 01 Apr 2025 - UK falls behind on public service spending 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over pupils moving between schools 01 Apr 2025 - Families still struggle to find primary school places in English cities 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health of pupils is 'at crisis point', teachers warn 01 Apr 2025 - Are we witnessing the return of the council house? 01 Apr 2025 - Four out of 10 teachers plan to quit, survey suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Stephen Hughes: Growing national income can fund local services 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax debts in England soar 40% in six years 01 Apr 2025 - Children with special needs forced out of school for years as funding fails to meet demand 01 Apr 2025 - Details delay social care green paper 01 Apr 2025 - Unregistered schools given council funding 01 Apr 2025 - IMF's Lagarde says further Brexit delay will 'hinder' UK growth 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted uncovers 500 suspected illegal schools in England 01 Apr 2025 - EU foster children should be given automatic British citizenship, charity says 01 Apr 2025 - Minister: Response to high streets fund 'fantastic' 01 Apr 2025 - Corbyn launches attack on fair funding review 01 Apr 2025 - Developers encouraged to fund school places 01 Apr 2025 - PMQs erupts as Corbyn savages council cuts - 'George Orwell would've been proud' 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes 'failing to keep pace with just 10 beds for every 100 people over 75' 01 Apr 2025 - Family's anger as government's social care plans delayed for fifth time 01 Apr 2025 - Children who need help with mental health face postcode lottery – study 01 Apr 2025 - Two-thirds of councils say they can’t afford to comply with homelessness law 01 Apr 2025 - Wales promotes council tax discounts for mentally impaired 01 Apr 2025 - LGA in finance director plea 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: A wider response is needed to Northamptonshire [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Local elections: 12 councils to watch [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - The price of Brexit has been £66 billion so far, plus an impending recession — and it hasn't even started yet 01 Apr 2025 - What do parish councils do? 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend millions on agency social workers amid recruiting crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond unveils tax cut 01 Apr 2025 - Newham Council fined £145,000 over gangs list leak 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman: Local government finance needs to be more transparent 01 Apr 2025 - Tories resign to fight former colleagues as Dorset tension continues 01 Apr 2025 - ‘North suffers most from special educational needs budget cuts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils say homelessness act not adequately funded 01 Apr 2025 - The England that Westminster forgot 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted grades are misleading parents and are wrong in up to half of cases, ex-Government adviser says 01 Apr 2025 - ‘North suffers most from special educational needs budget cuts’ 01 Apr 2025 - Government homelessness funding 'not enough' 01 Apr 2025 - Northants closes £65m funding gap in under a year 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for pupils with special educational needs drops 17% 01 Apr 2025 - Seaside town reinvention 'should start with Blackpool' 01 Apr 2025 - Mother sues over daughter's suicide attempt in school isolation booth 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Councils left in the dark, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - New £201m road repair fund is ‘drop in the ocean’ 01 Apr 2025 - Fund to fix our potholes gets an extra £200m in emergency government funding to help resurface more than 1,000 miles of highway 01 Apr 2025 - Liddington: EU elections preparations will be funded 01 Apr 2025 - Council register of home-schooled children proposed 01 Apr 2025 - Calais child refugees waiting 10 times longer to join family in UK 01 Apr 2025 - Suffolk now has 'largest district council in country' 01 Apr 2025 - Clive Betts: My committee will try to solve the funding crisis 01 Apr 2025 - 'Massive challenge' due to EU election uncertainty 01 Apr 2025 - Report finds disparities in highways maintenance funding 01 Apr 2025 - Government is ‘failing’ to combat child poverty, campaigners say 01 Apr 2025 - Fund to fix our potholes gets an extra £200m in emergency government funding to help resurface more than 1,000 miles of highway 01 Apr 2025 - Minimum wage rates rise, but bills go up too 01 Apr 2025 - More than 1m childless people over 65 are 'dangerously unsupported' 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers must act to save tens of thousands of jobs on UK's struggling high streets, Tesco boss warns 01 Apr 2025 - Northants commissioner: Council still has a long way to go 01 Apr 2025 - How Northamptonshire balanced the books 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman: Local government finance needs to be more transparent 01 Apr 2025 - SURVEY RESULTS: Officers expect no extra cash from Fair Funding Review 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG ‘concerned’ over councils’ investment code compliance 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG appoints new director general 01 Apr 2025 - Councils make record £867m from parking charges as profits soar by two-thirds in a year fuelling concerns that authorities are exploiting motorists 01 Apr 2025 - Council taxes to rise by 5% but service cuts ‘still needed’ 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire to lift spending ban 01 Apr 2025 - Waiting for Godot and the Social Care Green Paper 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG appoints new director general 01 Apr 2025 - Report finds disparities in highways maintenance funding 01 Apr 2025 - Barry Lewis: Fair funding must recognise rural challenges 01 Apr 2025 - Schools funding shortfall of £5.4bn 'worse than estimated' 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall announces £36m to develop coastal communities 01 Apr 2025 - Tax avoidance measures ‘a long way short of a solution’ 01 Apr 2025 - MPs criticise children's social care progress 01 Apr 2025 - Legislation linked to 60% rise in temporary accommodation 01 Apr 2025 - Councils told to seek no-deal Brexit legal advice 01 Apr 2025 - Automation could replace 1.5 million jobs, says ONS 01 Apr 2025 - Unease as cash-strapped councils buy hotels 01 Apr 2025 - Government backs down over 'myth-busting' guide on child protection 01 Apr 2025 - Bin collections are weekly for just one in six councils 01 Apr 2025 - Chronic Underfunding Will Force More Children's Centre To Close, LGA Warns 01 Apr 2025 - Rubbish: Britain's Tipping Point? 01 Apr 2025 - High praise for Liverpool health campaign 01 Apr 2025 - LGA and others issue a joint letter on adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - Local income tax best bet for fiscal devo - IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Lawyers wanted: Legal workforce on the rise 01 Apr 2025 - Frustration mounts on Brexit legislation list 01 Apr 2025 - Grimsey criticises speed of high streets bidding process 01 Apr 2025 - Exasperation at rules for new high street cash 01 Apr 2025 - UK employment at highest since 1971 01 Apr 2025 - New £9.75m fund to clean high streets 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector ‘likely to suffer’ with collapse of Interserve 01 Apr 2025 - Squeezing local government finance will hit women hardest 01 Apr 2025 - End 'lazy language of austerity,' sector urged 01 Apr 2025 - Local bodies poor at securing value for money, says PAC 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement was ‘dead rubber’ 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly all councils to build new homes after scrapping of borrowing cap 01 Apr 2025 - Councils collaborate to address homelessness crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh households to face biggest council tax rise in 15 years 01 Apr 2025 - 8 Things Buried In Philip Hammond's Spring Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Parking fees to more than double as council set to collect over £1 billion 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy homes re-sold since 2000 made £6.4bn in profit 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement: Hammond promises 'deal dividend' 01 Apr 2025 - Outgoing NAO chief questions ministerial accountability 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond to tackle Britain’s knife crime epidemic with £100m funding package 01 Apr 2025 - Funding cuts hamper knife crime prevention in England, say schools 01 Apr 2025 - Southern cities provide more jobs for low-skilled workers than in the North 01 Apr 2025 - Women ‘bear the brunt’ of social care crisis, charity warns 01 Apr 2025 - Council to fine anti-social drivers 01 Apr 2025 - Northants apologises for underpaying childminders 01 Apr 2025 - Weaker pupils removed before exams 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Nearly 80,000 Jobs Lost In Radical Council Upheavals 01 Apr 2025 - Parsons Green bomber's foster carers sue council 01 Apr 2025 - Heads angry at minister's school funding 'snub' 01 Apr 2025 - Rising number of councils issuing fines for rough sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries and parks face closure in bid to pay for social care services facing multi-billion pound funding gap, LGA warn 01 Apr 2025 - Households facing one of the highest council tax hikes in a decade, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeship take-up down by a quarter 01 Apr 2025 - Department for Transport issues pothole warning 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: The thousands of public spaces lost to the council funding crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare funding ‘insufficient’, council chiefs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates appeals will cost councils over £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Government urged to publish a rural strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Struggling towns to get £1.6bn post-Brexit boost 01 Apr 2025 - MPs to debate school funding crisis after 100,000 sign head teacher's petition 01 Apr 2025 - Diana Terris: ‘It’s much harder when things are being sliced’ 01 Apr 2025 - Spending review: Councils braced for further austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Early intervention key to helping those at risk of falling into debt, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates appeals will cost councils over £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Teaming up at the top: the sharing of lead officer roles 01 Apr 2025 - Lancs councils launch unitary call 01 Apr 2025 - Firefighters tackle huge blaze on Saddleworth Moor 01 Apr 2025 - Parents pay as much as university tuition for part-time childcare – study 01 Apr 2025 - Interserve rescue fees hit £90m 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable pensioners with dementia facing crippling care bills following NHS attempts to restrict funding 01 Apr 2025 - More than a million public sector workers paid below the voluntary living wage 01 Apr 2025 - Public services are about empowerment – not a transaction 01 Apr 2025 - UK hunger survey to measure food insecurity 01 Apr 2025 - Independent Group gains first two councillors 01 Apr 2025 - Charities warn government that cuts to children's services 'leave thousands at risk' 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax pushing thousands into poverty because of online applications process 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts to children’s services are pushing young people into violence and exploitation, experts warn 01 Apr 2025 - Analysis finds London could lose £0.5bn under fair funding reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Delay protects ministers from awkward reality 01 Apr 2025 - Counties and districts to clash over rates split 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities with major ports to receive funding boost to help with Brexit preparations 01 Apr 2025 - English councils accused of hiding scale of homelessness crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire approves 4.99% council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs insist waste reforms must be ‘fully funded’ 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers being driven away by ‘impossible’ workloads 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Theresa May warned plans for £100,000 cap on care costs will require significant tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax: England's first £2,000 bill revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Council stings residents of Cranbrook for ‘new town tax’ of £370 a year 01 Apr 2025 - Paul Johnson: The present model of funding for local government is unsustainable 01 Apr 2025 - Paul Johnson: The present model of funding for local government is unsustainable 01 Apr 2025 - How much will my Council Tax rise in April 2019? 01 Apr 2025 - Andrea Leadsom fails to guarantee MPs' Easter break 01 Apr 2025 - Record UK government borrowing surplus in January 01 Apr 2025 - City centres 'could become ghost towns' 01 Apr 2025 - Council spending on child asylum seekers almost doubles in four years 01 Apr 2025 - British children living in poverty 'could hit record high' – report 01 Apr 2025 - Gove launches consultation on waste system overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Have You Been Made Redundant From Your Council Job? 01 Apr 2025 - Crackdown on monthly bin collections after residents complain of rats, flies and stenches 01 Apr 2025 - MPs ‘to scrutinise local authority finances’ 01 Apr 2025 - Crackdown on monthly bin collections after residents complain of rats, flies and stenches 01 Apr 2025 - New funding to get people more involved in local issues 01 Apr 2025 - MJ and LGiU LGF Survey: Down to the core 01 Apr 2025 - Most English local authorities 'plan to raise council tax' 01 Apr 2025 - Standards of conduct in local government 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall cuts result in ‘lost generation’ of deaf children 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole compensation costs councils nearly £3m a year 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall announces £9m boost for garden communities 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG to make 'compelling case' for more funding 01 Apr 2025 - Council rolls scooters out in bid to tackle pollution 01 Apr 2025 - Updated: Yorkshire leaders ‘disappointed’ as devo bid rejected 01 Apr 2025 - A view from north of the border 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation falls to two-year low in January 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit 'could cause migration to rise by 100,000,' report by Migration Watch UK claims 01 Apr 2025 - The price of freedom passes 01 Apr 2025 - Uncollected rubbish: 1.8 million missed bin complaints in UK 01 Apr 2025 - Planning appeal wait ‘could be cut by months’ 01 Apr 2025 - Young people told - become a care worker 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review ‘make or break’ for cash-strapped councils 01 Apr 2025 - Labour would create local government commission 01 Apr 2025 - Northern leaders approve £70bn transport plan 01 Apr 2025 - Brokenshire announces plans to improve integration 01 Apr 2025 - Underfunding of bus scheme leaves elderly ‘isolated’ 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Public services need billions of extra pounds to end austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond £5bn short of 'austerity is ending' target, says thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - The hidden housing crisis: Low-income workers are living in unsafe and unsanitary buildings 01 Apr 2025 - 'Perfection will have to be sacrificed in favour of the practical on fair funding' 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar schools to create 3,000 new places in the next three years to end middle class stranglehold with £50m fund focusing on poorer pupils 01 Apr 2025 - 'Deprivation must be given due prominence in the fair funding formula' 01 Apr 2025 - The row over fair funding is just getting started 01 Apr 2025 - Cutbacks at dozens of councils will see street lights turned off at night despite inquests linking switch-offs to deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Budget cuts threaten Ramsgate ferry plan 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Manchester budget has £1m 'hole' due to moor fire funds delay 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Budget cuts threaten Ramsgate ferry plan 01 Apr 2025 - Who needs libraries anyway? How the Tories warped the purpose of local government [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - More than 50,000 people have died waiting for social care since Tories vowed to fix system 01 Apr 2025 - Teaching units for deaf children keep closing, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Ladbrokes staff told to sign gamblers to online accounts to avoid redundancy 01 Apr 2025 - Labour to vote against ‘unfair’ local government funding 01 Apr 2025 - Cities call for post-Brexit powers to rebalance economy 01 Apr 2025 - Met and district face intervention over local plans failure 01 Apr 2025 - Dick Sorabji: Funding review shows flaws in government machine 01 Apr 2025 - 'Commercialisation is good. But only if the risks are appropriate' 01 Apr 2025 - James Brokenshire confirms funding package for local authorities in 2019 to 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding: MPs debate local government settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Freedom passes costing councils £650m 01 Apr 2025 - Redundancy costs at Essex County Council reach £8.6m after 277 employees exit 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities forced to cut council tax support sees surge in unpaid tax bills 01 Apr 2025 - Freedom passes costing councils £650m 01 Apr 2025 - Consumer enforcement system on ‘verge of collapse’, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers' pay should be capped at 2%, says government 01 Apr 2025 - Rebuild the faded towns of Britain to end our national malaise [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Foster care is faced with a ‘looming crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Suicidal generation’: tragic toll of teens doubles in 8 years 01 Apr 2025 - So the government choose Brexit debate day to quietly finalise its council cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Third of UK businesses considering move abroad - survey 01 Apr 2025 - £8bn funding gap threatens discretionary services, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - Council underestimates value of housing stock by £86m 01 Apr 2025 - £70bn plan to boost the North’s infrastructure published 01 Apr 2025 - Multi-million funding boost to prevent potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Bus journeys fall by 90 million in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Transport Secretary ploughs £22million into plastic roads to fix UK’s pothole crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs overspend in eight out of 10 councils 01 Apr 2025 - Charity hits out at Theresa May over Child Funeral Fund pledge 01 Apr 2025 - LGA hit by unexpected £1m insurance bill 01 Apr 2025 - Inadequate Brexit funding 'better spent on tinned food' 01 Apr 2025 - After Carillion: The future of local service outsourcing 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers twice as likely to have a pothole accident now than in 2006 01 Apr 2025 - £400m cuts leave museums in crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire gets green light to raise council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Austerity hits prevention funding 01 Apr 2025 - A Government Memo Says A No-Deal "Brexodus" Could See 250,000 Expats Returning To The UK 01 Apr 2025 - Local government could do far more if given the power 01 Apr 2025 - East Sussex council strips back budget cuts by £20m with help of government grants 01 Apr 2025 - Council staff left ‘deeply shocked’ after new Dorset unitary sends out redundancy letters 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk County Council rubber-stamps plans to close 38 children’s centres amid fierce protests 01 Apr 2025 - Kent looks to Whitehall to fund Brexit pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Hinds: More schools should convert to academies 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could dip into reserves to deal with Brexit aftermath 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for libraries down 40 per cent as cities are hit hardest by austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Council bans adverts for chocolate bars, ice creams and chips from billboards and bus stops to encourage residents to exercise more and eat healthier 01 Apr 2025 - Care home residents face funding drop as councils refuse to meet fee increase 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers more than twice as likely to suffer pothole damage than in 2006 01 Apr 2025 - Councils say more arts cuts inevitable amid rising social care need 01 Apr 2025 - Tory Cuts To Local Council Budgets Are Leaving A Wake Of Social Destruction 01 Apr 2025 - Labour councils and activists are at war. But it won’t stop austerity [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Local councils to receive £56.5m fund 01 Apr 2025 - 'Public-public partnerships offer a strong alternative to outsourcing' 01 Apr 2025 - Third council joins unitary legal action 01 Apr 2025 - Sigoma: The ministry must revise fair funding approach 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey interim staffing spend spirals 01 Apr 2025 - Kent looks to Whitehall to fund Brexit pressures 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Least equipped’ northern cities have taken brunt of funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office tracks debit card use to ‘spy’ on asylum seekers 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers to be offered cash to stay in school 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit uncertainty threatens £400m regeneration scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Minister says Whitehall lacks city-level Brexit data 01 Apr 2025 - LGA backs cities over deprivation funding 01 Apr 2025 - John Sinnott: The fair funding review is a challenge to the sector 01 Apr 2025 - Peer review praises 'inward looking' county's finances 01 Apr 2025 - Committee examine ‘county lines’ drug distribution networks 01 Apr 2025 - Rural housing crisis ‘forgotten’ by Whitehall 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall makes £50,000 available for high streets 01 Apr 2025 - Cycle lanes are the solution to congestion not the problem 01 Apr 2025 - Little time left for detail needed over funding 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit funding for councils ‘only half of what MHCLG requested’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hope for rough sleepers as pilot programme begins 01 Apr 2025 - Online sales tax to help save high street falls foul of EU 01 Apr 2025 - Rural areas defend plan to downgrade deprivation role 01 Apr 2025 - Parents kept in the dark over wasted academy cash 01 Apr 2025 - Top ratings from Ofsted lowered on return visit 01 Apr 2025 - Shops lose 70,000 jobs in a year, says BRC 01 Apr 2025 - 'Appalling' ignorance of child-protection pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Growing demands on children's social services not understood by Government despite £872 million overspend, report claims 01 Apr 2025 - Firm ‘uses aggressive tactics’ to collect millions in fines for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy scheme under pressure to be scrapped as councils spend millions renting homes they sold for below market rate 01 Apr 2025 - Academy School Failures And Misuse Of Funds Are Damaging Children's Education, Spending Watchdog Warns 01 Apr 2025 - Department For Education 'Doesn't Understand Drivers Of Children's Social Care', Says Watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Dawes: No-deal Brexit could mean councils take on ports role 01 Apr 2025 - Dawes: No-deal Brexit could mean councils take on ports role 01 Apr 2025 - Council investigates using ‘smart’ cars to detect potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire school's '£1,000 holiday fine' warning denied 01 Apr 2025 - UK employment total hits record high 01 Apr 2025 - Fair funding review must not drive us apart 01 Apr 2025 - Anger as NHS England accused of public health 'land grab' 01 Apr 2025 - Crime prevention budgets ‘slashed’ under Tories 01 Apr 2025 - Districts threaten legal action over unitary plans 01 Apr 2025 - Plan to redirect inner-city funds to Tory shires 'a stitch-up’ 01 Apr 2025 - Over 23,000 shops and 175,000 high street jobs predicted to go in 2019 01 Apr 2025 - Coventry City Council is UK's slowest to fill potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Schools pushing children into home schooling, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Mental capacity changes give care homes too much power, critics say 01 Apr 2025 - Wakefield, Grimsby, Plymouth win share of £20m culture fund 01 Apr 2025 - Mackay defends local government planned settlement 01 Apr 2025 - MPs Debate Children's Social Care [LIVE] 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of UK care workers threaten walkout over wage cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Leading academies ordered to promote apprenticeships 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation falls to lowest level in nearly two years 01 Apr 2025 - Wales has 'highest imprisonment rate' in western Europe 01 Apr 2025 - How Ashford in Kent became the poster town for the high street fightback 01 Apr 2025 - Bristol council launches bid to save community hub 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk council rebuked over special needs provision 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG must have better oversight of local authority governance, says NAO 01 Apr 2025 - Combined authority backs bus alliance 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls cut services but spend millions on CCTV 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit: Rudd backs tax cut for workers 01 Apr 2025 - Education spending falls by more than £7 billion since the Tories came to power 01 Apr 2025 - Pete Moore to lead CIPFA’s pension panel 01 Apr 2025 - Government proposals offer pension security for outsourced council jobs 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock plans to publish social care green paper before April 01 Apr 2025 - Redistribute schools’ cash to help struggling secondaries, think-tank urges 01 Apr 2025 - Value for money concerns at one in five top tier councils 01 Apr 2025 - Departing chief in line for £470,000 package 01 Apr 2025 - Amazon business rates bill prompts calls for reform 01 Apr 2025 - Nine out of ten councils blow the budget on children's care 01 Apr 2025 - Care cuts failing older people in England, says human rights group 01 Apr 2025 - NHS and councils full of financial problems, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Grammars ‘are vital for social mobility’ 01 Apr 2025 - 250,000 children should be classed as victims of domestic abuse, says NSPCC 01 Apr 2025 - Spelthorne borough council splashes out £1bn on property 01 Apr 2025 - England 'needs millions of homes to solve housing crisis' 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers’ leaders accuse Theresa May of breaking funding promise 01 Apr 2025 - Amber Rudd insists Universal Credit benefits will go ahead despite Commons vote delay 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall should pass more power to councils, says Truss 01 Apr 2025 - Councils enjoy a surge in parking charge profits while slashing their spending on crumbling roads 01 Apr 2025 - Paupers' funerals cost UK councils nearly £5.4m in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Full steam ahead for hydrogen trains 01 Apr 2025 - NHS plan ‘missed opportunity’ to fix social care 01 Apr 2025 - Taxis should be used as public transport in rural areas, say campaigners 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of bringing road bridges up to scratch rose by a third last year – study 01 Apr 2025 - Volunteers left to stack bookshelves as hundreds of libraries are closed 01 Apr 2025 - Families waiting too long for special needs support in England 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly are being treated like 'Amazon parcels' with only 15 minutes handling time by care staff, former pensions minister warns 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Manchester: New homes plan to tackle 'housing crisis' 01 Apr 2025 - Town hall chiefs fear a spike in A&E admissions from elderly people slipping on untreated icy pavements this winter amid £48m budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Social housing report calls for massive overhaul of tenants’ rights 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May poised to play for time by further postponing final vote on her Brexit deal 01 Apr 2025 - CCG accused of using 'flawed' test to cut spending on elderly 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health budget worth £1.9bn 'to be devolved' 01 Apr 2025 - Brokenshire to announce funding for manufacturing zones 01 Apr 2025 - Government hands out £38m to help [London boroughs] accommodate homeless families 01 Apr 2025 - NICE: New roads should prioritise cyclists and pedestrians 01 Apr 2025 - Number 10 denies government is planning to merge Departments for Business, Transport, and Culture 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health: target to boost staff numbers by 21,000 set to be missed

2018

01 Apr 2025 - One in six councils face financial stability risk 01 Apr 2025 - More scrutiny in local government? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA index finds up to 15% of councils ‘at risk of financial instability’ 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May ditches key pledges to prepare for no-deal Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock refutes reports of 'shelved' social care green paper 01 Apr 2025 - Government: Start preparing for no-deal Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Binmen refuse to get their hands dirty as council tells residents: clean up your own mess 01 Apr 2025 - Reading ‘disappointed’ after Wokingham rejects £20m scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Social care green paper delayed again 01 Apr 2025 - Stephen Houghton: Negative RSG plans are a gift to rich authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Residents will see 'inflation-busting' council tax rises under new government plan, Labour warns 01 Apr 2025 - Child homelessness in England rises to highest level in 12 years, new figures show 01 Apr 2025 - England's primary school league tables are published 01 Apr 2025 - Stoke-on-Tent City Council announce tax hike on empty homes 01 Apr 2025 - Wages rises accelerate to fastest pace since 2008 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urgently need financial certainty, and Brexit is holding that up 01 Apr 2025 - Mayor Sadiq Khan to look at imposing rent controls in London 01 Apr 2025 - Turning off lights saves councils £15m ‘but costs lives’ 01 Apr 2025 - Plan to raise rent for high earners after MP scandal 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar schools given £50m diversity cash have only 2% poor pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers and NHS England chief at loggerheads over targets 01 Apr 2025 - Private firms are making big money out of children's social services 01 Apr 2025 - The Government Thinks No-one Will Notice Their Devastation Of Local Government – We Won’t Let That Happen 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit debate delays English councils' funding announcement 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall announces £1m ‘pocket park’ fund 01 Apr 2025 - Supported housing system ‘isn’t working’, charity warns 01 Apr 2025 - Northern Powerhouse needs ‘clear break’ with original vision, report says 01 Apr 2025 - How cuts changed council spending, in seven charts 01 Apr 2025 - Reality Check: Are these councils defying the cuts? 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless at Christmas: 'How will Santa find us?' 01 Apr 2025 - Northants’ budget sets out savings plans and council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG’s needs-based view of local government won’t endure 01 Apr 2025 - Resilience index response prompts major rethink 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council: Libraries to be community managed 01 Apr 2025 - Northants can use £70m in capital receipts to plug finance gap 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire elections postponed during consultation 01 Apr 2025 - Tory-run Northamptonshire county council bailed out by government 01 Apr 2025 - A no-deal Brexit would shrink the UK economy ‘by 9.3%’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local government ‘is sustainable’, says top civil servant 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire ‘will have to set unprecedented unbalanced budget’ 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Manchester proposes radical integration of services 01 Apr 2025 - Why this local council has taken matters into its own hands to rejuvenate its ailing high street 01 Apr 2025 - Complaints over social care in England nearly trebled since 2010 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond: UK will be ‘a bit’ poorer after Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond and Bank of England to set out analysis of Brexit economic impact 01 Apr 2025 - Domestic abuse: 'Children are the hidden victims' 01 Apr 2025 - County chief leaves just six months after appointment 01 Apr 2025 - Melanie Dawes: Sustainability is defined as 'statutory services' only 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit deal 'could cut UK growth by 5.5%' by 2030 01 Apr 2025 - One in four pubs in UK have closed since financial crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Selling off student loans ‘could have damaged public finances’ 01 Apr 2025 - The recycling system is out of date and needs to be overhauled, says Environment Agency chair 01 Apr 2025 - McDonnell calls for check on council loans that will 'waste £16bn' 01 Apr 2025 - Ten of the best [councils] 01 Apr 2025 - Council reserves in shock rise 01 Apr 2025 - DfE must ensure ‘academies can be trusted’ 01 Apr 2025 - Labour plea over £133m Northamptonshire council debt 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit ‘stretching government to breaking point’ 01 Apr 2025 - Sector faces £12m apprenticeship hit - every month 01 Apr 2025 - Northants moves to bolster confidence over council loans 01 Apr 2025 - Commission for Countering Extremism launches call for evidence on extremism in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - More cancelled rest days on the cards after tri-force fall out 01 Apr 2025 - It took decades for Children in Need to raise £1bn – wouldn’t it be more efficient to raise taxes? 01 Apr 2025 - More than 1,000 people become homeless every month, figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Cycling awareness plan could lead to cheaper insurance for drivers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spent £160m on school transport for children with special needs – survey 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council slashes deficit by £10m, but services in ‘significant decline’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cumbria council mulls over plans for major ‘one-stop-shop’ local government reshuffle 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit: Amber Rudd to 'signal shift in approach' 01 Apr 2025 - Shares in outsourcing giant Interserve hit 30-year low 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs pupils 'spend years out of school' 01 Apr 2025 - Number of looked after children rises to over 75,000 01 Apr 2025 - Many home educated children ‘hidden from sight’ 01 Apr 2025 - Why it costs £73,000 to educate a child 01 Apr 2025 - Fare freezes ‘adding to Transport for London finance woes’ 01 Apr 2025 - Back to basics: What’s the point of accounting for depreciation? 01 Apr 2025 - Number of children being adopted from care falls 01 Apr 2025 - LGA survey suggests support for national adult social care levy 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services commissioner set to be sent into Northants 01 Apr 2025 - £536m funding shortfall for SEND children, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £500m bill after ATM business rates ruling 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘unsustainably’ spend millions of pounds more on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £536m shortfall in Send budgets, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Cipfa past president to lose job as county seeks £35m savings 01 Apr 2025 - Government must raise taxes to plug £3.6bn social care funding shortfall, councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Gambling rebellion looks set to pay off 01 Apr 2025 - 'Are councils sitting on a goldmine of untapped data?' 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall confirms £22m for domestic abuse survivors 01 Apr 2025 - City council to cut 100 jobs to balance budget 01 Apr 2025 - Councils forced to close nearly 350 playgrounds in past four years 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Devastating’ cuts hit special educational needs 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children are being auctioned online by councils inviting private firms to bid for up to £7,000-a-week for their care 01 Apr 2025 - 'Tax on age' to pay for social care being considered for the over-40s 01 Apr 2025 - Owners of holiday homes could soon pay council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Let’s celebrate a win for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers pledge £2m to help English councils tackle rogue landlords 01 Apr 2025 - Retailers shut 2,700 shops in first half of the year 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of £3bn child services black hole as thousands more children require protection 01 Apr 2025 - Can the government deliver on radical care reform? 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax "loophole" that saves wealthy homeowners thousands to be closed 01 Apr 2025 - Child protection services near crisis as demand rises 01 Apr 2025 - Older people could become ‘victim of a broken system’ as one of England’s largest care home providers faces closure 01 Apr 2025 - Inquiry into the funding of children’s services launched 01 Apr 2025 - Littering out of your car could now land you up to £450 fine 01 Apr 2025 - East Sussex council's basic services 'not sustainable' 01 Apr 2025 - Children's services: What do we know about the children most in need? 01 Apr 2025 - Bus firms pay fat cats £1.5 billion - while prices go up 55% and routes are axed 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May's flagship policy to solve housing crisis will deliver no new homes in half of England 01 Apr 2025 - People must take responsibility for own health, says Matt Hancock 01 Apr 2025 - 'Audit culture' causing staff burnout in schools, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Education Secretary Damian Hinds calls for billions more investment after Chancellor promised more cash for potholes than schools in his Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Firms cash in on psychiatric care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Lord Porter: We need a big, bold move to put social care on a firm financial footing 01 Apr 2025 - Education spending now 'skewed' to poor following 'remarkable shift' 01 Apr 2025 - School places crisis is worse than ever with half of children in some areas expected to miss out on their chosen secondary 01 Apr 2025 - Millions underestimating cost of care - Which? 01 Apr 2025 - Rural areas 'least socially mobile' 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2018: A bit of a gamble, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond no longer on track to balance budget, says OBR 01 Apr 2025 - Budget income tax cuts 'to overwhelmingly benefit the rich' 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2018: Philip Hammond hails better borrowing figures 01 Apr 2025 - Why did the council 'house' me in a tent? 01 Apr 2025 - The money messages may be getting back to the centre 01 Apr 2025 - Anger over chancellor's £400m 'little extras' for schools 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond v McDonnell on Budget 'end of austerity' claim 01 Apr 2025 - Budget to offer business rates relief for small shops 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond: No-deal Brexit would require new Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2018: Mental health ambulances promised in drive for more dedicated treatment 01 Apr 2025 - Arlingclose launches system for rating local authority creditworthiness 01 Apr 2025 - Lancs appoints combined CEO/151 amid harsh criticism of council’s governance 01 Apr 2025 - MPs demand policing is a Budget priority 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2018: £2billion annual boost for mental health services to be announced 01 Apr 2025 - 2018 Budget Preview 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond prepares last Budget before Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - More children in England at risk of abuse or neglect 01 Apr 2025 - Local government finance settlement date confirmed in government response to Hudson review 01 Apr 2025 - Councils buying care 'on the cheap' 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2018: Labour urges Hammond to 'stump up cash' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils sitting on £431m of infrastructure funds 01 Apr 2025 - We need to stop local services becoming dependent on property prices [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - 'Grave concerns' about future of council-run nurseries and support for special needs pupils as Tories refuse to guarantee vital funding 01 Apr 2025 - Social care crisis: Councils receive 5,100 new requests for adult care every day amid soaring demand 01 Apr 2025 - LGA responds to children's organisations call for Government to fund children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Children's services are at breaking point, experts say 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall announces £5m fund to fight knife crime 01 Apr 2025 - Councils affected by China's waste ban 01 Apr 2025 - PAC calls for costed 10-year social care plan 01 Apr 2025 - Durham County Council adds £49k security after threats 01 Apr 2025 - Warrington doubles down on solar farm investments 01 Apr 2025 - PAC chair seeking ways to beef up local government spending scrutiny 01 Apr 2025 - Local government fraud cases rise, says CIPFA survey 01 Apr 2025 - East Sussex council leader plays down service cuts report 01 Apr 2025 - Gloucestershire council 'in crisis' as fourth director quits 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset County Council: Protesters gather to challenge £14m cuts 01 Apr 2025 - SOLACE Summit: Councils are at back of austerity queue 01 Apr 2025 - LGA improvement cash could be slashed 01 Apr 2025 - Chiefs warning to May if austerity not lifted 01 Apr 2025 - Public faces 'care injustice' as NHS struggles 01 Apr 2025 - Council hit by cyber attack reveals £2m cost 01 Apr 2025 - DUP 'could vote against the Budget' over Brexit deal 01 Apr 2025 - Councils turning against outsourcing, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Councils turning against outsourcing, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - UK public finances are among weakest in the world, IMF says 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows faster than expected in three months to August 01 Apr 2025 - Fears for the future of music lessons in schools 01 Apr 2025 - Schools will be asked to track children's happiness amid fears about growing mental health epidemic 01 Apr 2025 - Warrington Council to invest £59m in solar farms in Yorkshire 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council: £65m of cuts agreed 01 Apr 2025 - English councils undergoing harshest spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' concern over Universal Support withdrawal 01 Apr 2025 - Stamp it out. Council tax and stamp duty should be scrapped and replaced by a new tax on homeowners, says Left-wing think-tank 01 Apr 2025 - North's elected mayors call for post-EU spending powers 01 Apr 2025 - 'Territorial injustice' may rise in England due to council cuts – study 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall announces £24m scheme to ‘boost’ social mobility in North East 01 Apr 2025 - Metro mayors call for post-Brexit fiscal devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Should we be forced to pay £30,000 for old-age care? 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall 'neglecting' smaller cities and towns, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding to be slashed by a further £1.3bn 01 Apr 2025 - Number of children referred to mental health services in England rises by a quarter 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher crisis hits London as nearly half quit within five years 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will be allowed to borrow billions more to build new affordable homes for millennials struggling to get on the housing ladder 01 Apr 2025 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45740427 01 Apr 2025 - UK's rejection of child refugees under Dubs scheme unlawful, court rules 01 Apr 2025 - The social care system is collapsing. So why the government inaction? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Matt Hancock: ‘Emergency social care funding will free up vital hospital beds' 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council plan to cut £65m unveiled 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Philip Hammond announces u-turn on apprentices tax in a bid to build bridges with businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers to be given extra volleyball and zumba coaching - as they're told to get pupils fit 01 Apr 2025 - English councils brace for biggest government cuts since 2010 despite 'unprecedented' budget pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Government spending on children at risk of neglect or abuse slashed by more than a quarter in five years, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Government spending on children at risk of neglect or abuse slashed by more than a quarter in five years, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Head teachers protest at Downing Street funding rally 01 Apr 2025 - Number of new-builds falls short of pre-crash level 01 Apr 2025 - Parents in England seek legal action over special needs funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor calls early Budget to fit round Brexit talks 01 Apr 2025 - Labour leaders demand radical council tax reform 01 Apr 2025 - Heads told school pension contributions to rise by over 40% from 2019 01 Apr 2025 - James Brokenshire accused of 'putting up barriers' to Yorks devo 01 Apr 2025 - Labour leaders refuse to back Corbyn's illegal budget comments 01 Apr 2025 - Labour Plans Dramatic £4.8bn Expansion Of Free Childcare Policy 01 Apr 2025 - Labour conference: No new free schools or academies, Angela Rayner pledges 01 Apr 2025 - Call a halt to fiscal gerrymandering, says SIGOMA 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care vacancies are soaring, according to the sector’s key training organisation. 01 Apr 2025 - Council misses accounts deadline 01 Apr 2025 - Union Worker Who 'Stopped Girl Walking Into The Sea' Makes Plea For Better Youth Services 01 Apr 2025 - Labour would scrap ATM charges in bid to 'save high streets' 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing jumps to £6.8bn in August 01 Apr 2025 - Counties likely to slash frontline services next year to balance budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘should borrow more to protect public services’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public ‘tiring of austerity’ as major survey reveals support for tax and spend 01 Apr 2025 - Councils overwhelmingly back IFRS9 statutory override for the long term 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset spending cuts delay new school buildings 01 Apr 2025 - Britain is on the brink of ‘social collapse,’ Labour council leaders warn 01 Apr 2025 - Social care pressures ‘result of funding issues - not European migration’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers ditch plans to sell off most valuable council properties to fund new social housing Save 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes: How engineers are working to fill in the gaps 01 Apr 2025 - '£1bn in unpalatable county council cuts' ahead in England 01 Apr 2025 - Bedblocking by elderly patients cost NHS England the equivalent of 130,000 days of care in just one month 01 Apr 2025 - The scandal of councils in affluent areas getting a better deal [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset blames ‘broken’ funding system for major cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should ‘step back’ from service provision, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped schools relying on donations from affluent parents 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly care timebomb: Shock report says people needing help will double to 1.2m costing £18b a year by 2040 01 Apr 2025 - Radical pension system-type plans considered to solve social care crisis, Health Secretary reveals 01 Apr 2025 - LGA in last-ditch warning over rule changes 01 Apr 2025 - Westminster ‘ignoring’ councils because of Brexit, says Bob Kerslake 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector audit appointment body names new head 01 Apr 2025 - 'Lost for words': Somerset cuts £28m of help for most vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury slammed for ‘lacking grasp of real world’ 01 Apr 2025 - Deprived areas ‘bearing brunt’ of local authority cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to offer staff low interest loans 01 Apr 2025 - Children's pressures push Suffolk towards £8.6m overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Government ranks areas on health/social care interface 01 Apr 2025 - Oxford strikes £2.6m deal to maintain its own roads 01 Apr 2025 - Council pension funds invest £9bn in fracking industry 01 Apr 2025 - Deal secured between PCC and Hertfordshire County Council as fire services debate dropped 01 Apr 2025 - Leicestershire district leaders urge county council to halt ‘unreasonable’ merger proposals 01 Apr 2025 - Councils under the most financial strain 01 Apr 2025 - 'Supersize' infant classes double over seven years 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly care on edge of collapse warns charity 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor urged to cut surging business rates to save the high street after 50,000 retail jobs lost this year 01 Apr 2025 - Councillor designs ‘virtual’ Facebook councillor 01 Apr 2025 - Councils knocked back over settled status costs 01 Apr 2025 - Special needs funding at crisis point, say school leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Almost 1,000 elderly people a day needlessly admitted to hospital amid social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of children face shorter week at school due to Tory cuts as education crisis deepens 01 Apr 2025 - Tens of thousands of homeless kids in ‘miserable existence’ this summer holiday as they stay in temporary accommodation 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset at 'very sharp end of austerity' 01 Apr 2025 - Sleep-in shifts resolution 'could take a year' 01 Apr 2025 - Council £6m investment to boost income 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset's savings 'difficult to stomach' as cuts concerns raised 01 Apr 2025 - 'Very sharp end' of austerity hits in Somerset in plans to cut £28m from council spending 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare scheme 'closing' nurseries, education charity says 01 Apr 2025 - County could axe almost 900 jobs as it seeks to save £33m 01 Apr 2025 - Police commissioner's bid for fire service control slammed by county 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset County Council proposes 130 redundancies and cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Record demand for sexual health services ‘puts huge pressure on councils’ 01 Apr 2025 - Schools turn down children who live one minute away with half of secondaries now oversubscribed 01 Apr 2025 - Council first to use new legal powers to demand Brexit clarity 01 Apr 2025 - Corby refuses to sign Northants unitary plans 01 Apr 2025 - Over 100,000 children homeless over holidays, council chiefs warn 01 Apr 2025 - England facing secondary school places ’emergency’, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Numbers of elderly in 24-hour care set to double by 2035 01 Apr 2025 - England's schools face 'severe' teacher shortage 01 Apr 2025 - Children forced to travel hundreds of miles for NHS mental health treatment 01 Apr 2025 - Charities urge curbs on pavement parking 01 Apr 2025 - One in four girls aged 14 have self-harmed in ONE year, study reveals 01 Apr 2025 - England left behind in social care race, charity claims 01 Apr 2025 - Crunch time for municipal bonds 01 Apr 2025 - Highland Council warns of £5.1m overspend 01 Apr 2025 - Council to approve accounts after LOBO loan delay 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall not doing ‘nearly enough’ to tackle pothole epidemic 01 Apr 2025 - Clive Betts: My demands for radical funding reform 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit will leave UK short of 380,000 care workers by 2026, analysis suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Fair funding breakthrough? 01 Apr 2025 - Fair funding review to ‘hit’ inner London boroughs 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office announces £13m fund to support vulnerable children 01 Apr 2025 - London could be hit hardest by fair funding review, IFS warns 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' care spending spirals as other services cut 01 Apr 2025 - Respite care: families at breaking point as councils slash funds 01 Apr 2025 - Households have ‘fallen behind on essential bills such as Council Tax by £18.9billion’ 01 Apr 2025 - Council Cuts To Trading Standards Leaving Vulnerable At Mercy Of Scammers 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for funding boost after £2bn budget surplus announcement 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs defend use of Bentleys and limousines 01 Apr 2025 - Government's July surplus at 18-year high 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders agree on two-unitary option for Northants 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council 'bought rugby hospitality box' 01 Apr 2025 - Radical ‘inheritance insurance’ pension pot plan to help the elderly pay for care without losing their home 01 Apr 2025 - Torbay council stops spending to tackle £2.8m shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire leaders to outline plans for two unitary model 01 Apr 2025 - Torbay fends off s.114 fears despite imposing spend moratorium 01 Apr 2025 - Public would prefer council services cuts to tax increases 01 Apr 2025 - Reality Check: Public toilets mapped 01 Apr 2025 - Chief leaves by mutual consent after election probe suspension 01 Apr 2025 - School cuts: ‘Children now raise money for their own education’ 01 Apr 2025 - There is no new money to end rough sleeping, minister admits 01 Apr 2025 - Social housing tenants to gain powers against rogue landlords 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable used as 'pawns' in Northamptonshire council budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - UK unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.36 million in three months to June 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spending a pretty penny on loos 01 Apr 2025 - Banks in line of fire over high street crisis – Closures turning centres into ghost towns 01 Apr 2025 - UK growth boosted by warmer weather 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire council backs 'radical' cuts to services 01 Apr 2025 - Ex-Northants leader quits party as she rails against new members 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit - Any port in a storm? 01 Apr 2025 - East Sussex County Council cuts services to 'legal minimum' 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire council meets to vote on huge cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Over 300,000 children are being taught by unqualified nursery staff, charity warns 01 Apr 2025 - Pedestrians tripping on wonky pavements given millions in payouts by cash-strapped councils 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MP breaks ranks on Northamptonshire council crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Warning that more councils could cut services to bare minimum 01 Apr 2025 - PM signs off on £600m Edinburgh City Deal 01 Apr 2025 - Inspectors praise Peterborough’s ‘thriving’ children’s services 01 Apr 2025 - Council’s solar farm generates £1.3m in second year 01 Apr 2025 - Use Our Loos campaign urges UK firms to open toilets to non-customers 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham back on the brink 01 Apr 2025 - Taxes ‘must rise’ to end social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England raises UK interest rates 01 Apr 2025 - Councils want National Citizen Service funding for youth services 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn unfunded cap on care would cost £691m a year 01 Apr 2025 - Extra dementia training for care home staff could save up to 20,000 lives a year and reduce levels of depression, study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Local government ‘must transform’ to cope with funding pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Details of financial crisis warning 'ignored' by Northants 01 Apr 2025 - Tax increases proposed to close £3.5bn social care funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Unfunded care cap could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on council services 01 Apr 2025 - Dying young in Stockton - England’s most unequal town 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire ‘misappropriates’ £8m of ring-fenced funds to rescue cash-strapped services 01 Apr 2025 - School holiday hunger cash a 'great first step' 01 Apr 2025 - Rubbish piles up as families wait three weeks for bin collections 01 Apr 2025 - Holiday homes dodge £80m council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Brace yourself - tax increases are coming [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Government attacked over child mental health plan and told it is ‘sleepwalking into deepening crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - John Sinnott: Cipfa deserves backing over resilience [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for Northants County Council leader to resign 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers plan for social care tax to help plug £3.5billion funding gap and fund care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury would cover lost EU funding after Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Bill for public sector wage rises £820m, estimates IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council bans spending again 01 Apr 2025 - Classroom teachers up to 3.5% pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - McArdle: Northants needs to face consequences of past actions 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces new standards for fire and rescue services 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire's Section 114 Notice 01 Apr 2025 - Northants issues new section 114 notice 01 Apr 2025 - At last, a radical solution to the social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Pay rises expected for public sector staff 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock highlights 'intense pressure' on social care budgets 01 Apr 2025 - PM to announce North of Tyne CA legislation 01 Apr 2025 - Think tank publishes scorecard for local government financing 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG to consider financial sustainability ahead of Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Schools miss out in rush to set up academies, MPs find 01 Apr 2025 - No section 114 for Somerset CC despite funding issues 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire new CEO approved by Full Council to lead area through ‘unprecedented time of change’ 01 Apr 2025 - The Guardian view on school funding: cash is needed but so is a change of direction 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire CC to axe 'hundreds of jobs’ due to funding crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Britain's tax burden reaches its highest level since Harold Wilson was in charge while Government revenues are now at a 32-year high 01 Apr 2025 - MHCLG to consider financial sustainability ahead of Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Poor mental health 'part and parcel of childhood' 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless but working families rise by 73%, says Shelter 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector ‘lacks policies to support blockchain’ 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset County Council Tories quit over budget crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Counties query plan for financial resilience index 01 Apr 2025 - UK government borrowing at 11-year low 01 Apr 2025 - Heads blame school cuts as exclusions pass 40 a day 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Double council tax on empty homes to ease crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - Wage growth slows despite jobless fall 01 Apr 2025 - Monthly record set for DTOC reductions 01 Apr 2025 - Extra funding freedoms for Liverpool City Region 01 Apr 2025 - Court reverses £400m sleep-in shift ruling 01 Apr 2025 - Council trials mobile phone detection technology 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole-related car breakdowns ‘at a three-year high’ 01 Apr 2025 - Wales could show England the way to local government reform 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 8 million people providing care for family members without pay 01 Apr 2025 - Heavy toll on firefighters as call-outs to move the obese soar to 900 a year 01 Apr 2025 - The Guardian view on home-schooling in England: a register is needed [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Rob Whiteman: Rise of dealmaker CEOs puts governance skills ‘at risk’ 01 Apr 2025 - Brokenshire defends Whitehall ‘grasp’ of local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset chief accountant warns of section 114 risk 01 Apr 2025 - Grant set to be appointed Northants chief 01 Apr 2025 - Sunak: Public sector leaders need tech focus 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of finance professionals pressured into acting unethically, says survey 01 Apr 2025 - Face up to tax and charging to make services sustainable, says Clarke 01 Apr 2025 - Number of secondary school pupils in England to rise 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of finance professionals pressured into acting unethically, says survey 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit will hit public finances, conference hears 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA president: We can rebuild trust in public services 01 Apr 2025 - Bed blocking costing NHS ‘£550 per minute’ 01 Apr 2025 - This government is indifferent to the crisis in local councils that is about to hit us 01 Apr 2025 - Pushing boundaries: Reshaping the government estate for the future 01 Apr 2025 - School spending on pupils cut by 8%, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - One in six high street firms taken to court as business rates bite 01 Apr 2025 - County set to cut to 'core offer' 01 Apr 2025 - Government has not learnt from academy failures that damaged children’s education, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - ‘There used to be a bus every hour. Now we hardly leave the house’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hancock’s Big Moment [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Bosses who revive high street properties are punished with soaring business rate hikes 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt replaces Boris Johnson amid Brexit turmoil 01 Apr 2025 - Put up tax to pay for social care, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority bus budgets cut by 45% 01 Apr 2025 - Raab replaces Davis as Brexit Secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond promises tax on digital firms as business rates weigh on struggling retailers 01 Apr 2025 - Rural roads busier as drivers escape urban congestion 01 Apr 2025 - 'Councils beat academy trusts at boosting failing schools' 01 Apr 2025 - Countryside facing a ‘demographic time bomb’ 01 Apr 2025 - Surge In Children's Social Workers Quitting Profession Amid Violent Crime Wave 01 Apr 2025 - Brokenshire dodges funding commitment pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Tory Peer Tears Into Government Over Social Care Crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Authorities expect to make almost £900m from parking fees this year 01 Apr 2025 - Local councils at risk of bankruptcy due to government 'complacency', MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Millions of children 'fending for themselves' and facing 'serious risk' at home 01 Apr 2025 - Learner drivers ‘should have to spot potholes to pass test’ 01 Apr 2025 - Call for business rates to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Minister promises more self-financing councils will not be abandoned 01 Apr 2025 - PAC highlights Whitehall’s ‘shaky grasp’ of council finances 01 Apr 2025 - Financial pressures could turn unitary to district 01 Apr 2025 - LGA in social rents plea 01 Apr 2025 - Councils withheld just £32m last year on underperforming PFI deals 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of children facing abuse ‘repeatedly’ referred to social care services 01 Apr 2025 - Funding for support buses slashed by 45%, campaigners warn 01 Apr 2025 - Regions left behind by London-centric transport investment, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Latest Whole of Government Accounts shows £2.4trn net liability 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Worst is yet to come’: Councils fear inability to balance books despite legal duty to do so 01 Apr 2025 - By 2020 our local councils will be in utter financial chaos – but the government has chosen to do nothing 01 Apr 2025 - Another week, another warning 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' funding gap to exceed £7bn by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Counties call for pre-Spending Review cash injection 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA to consult on index to help test councils’ financial resilience 01 Apr 2025 - Dan Bates: Searching last year’s accounts for signs of resilience 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for national ‘premium’ to pay for social care 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Worst yet to come’ without extra funds for county budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Counties issue budget warning and call for pre-spending review cash injection 01 Apr 2025 - Rise in children's services spending 01 Apr 2025 - English councils warn 'worst is yet to come' on cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Unitary moots reverting to district status amid financial struggle 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Care should be free with dedicated insurance pot’ 01 Apr 2025 - MPs highlight weak commitment to transparent financial reporting 01 Apr 2025 - Half of council staff considering quitting their job, survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - Half of council staff considering quitting their job, survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - Over 40s should pay new tax to fund creaking social care, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Neglected children never get to learn about ‘normal’ life 01 Apr 2025 - Peer calls for tax rises to pay for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Give councils fiscal flexibility to fund local priorities, says think-tank 01 Apr 2025 - Ailing cities advised to replace shops with offices and housing 01 Apr 2025 - Cap on care costs to help elderly keep their homes 01 Apr 2025 - Britain's most pothole-plagued roads revealed as councils heave with complaints 01 Apr 2025 - Children face mental health epidemic, say teachers 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors question county's 'unrealistic' savings plan 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond hands Bank of England new powers 01 Apr 2025 - 'Lifeline' bus routes for elderly threatened by funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Threat to buses as councils fear looming £5bn shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - UK government borrowing falls more than expected 01 Apr 2025 - Council demanded payment card details via email 01 Apr 2025 - Britain needs an investment revolution. Labour will provide it [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Delay to green paper caps dismal 48 hours for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Police Prepare for Surge in Domestic Violence Around England Matches 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should take schools back from struggling academy chains, says education report 01 Apr 2025 - Six Classrooms' Worth Of Youngsters Put On Child Protection Plans Every Day 01 Apr 2025 - Academies no better than council schools, think tank finds 01 Apr 2025 - Defence, schools and police set to miss out from big spending increases as Theresa May focuses on NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Over 15,000 delayed transfers of care down to delays in arranging care packages 01 Apr 2025 - Hunt admits imminent long-term NHS plan likely won’t include social care 01 Apr 2025 - Unresolved business rates appeals divert £2.5bn away from public services 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset should form three unitary authorities, MP suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Public support ‘compelling evidence’ for increased social care spending 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care reforms must be better communicated, MPs warn 01 Apr 2025 - New bus figures show 'slow death of local buses' 01 Apr 2025 - NHS announces ambition to cut delayed transfers by 25% 01 Apr 2025 - Local government figures celebrated in Queen's birthday honours 01 Apr 2025 - Fresh finance warning for Northamptonshire County Council 01 Apr 2025 - Sector hits out at ‘unacceptable’ delays to social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Councils sell off 4,000 public buildings a year, FOI requests reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn about ‘dangerously’ inadequate funding for SEND education 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services per capita spend down 20% 01 Apr 2025 - Make social care ‘free at the point of need’, former health minister says 01 Apr 2025 - Child protection costs 'threaten local councils' financial stability' 01 Apr 2025 - Spending on social care down by 9% 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for business rates reform to minimise appeals risk 01 Apr 2025 - Tony Travers: Grenfell inquiry must consider the public policy context 01 Apr 2025 - Our UK public services don't need 'reform', they need hard cash [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Councils tighten reins on personalised care 01 Apr 2025 - 133,000 business rates appeals from 2010 remain unresolved 01 Apr 2025 - Sir William Worsley, the new tree champion, will give residents a say on chopping 01 Apr 2025 - Legal system of child protection is in crisis, says senior judge 01 Apr 2025 - 'There were a lot of strangers around - I didn't feel safe' 01 Apr 2025 - Sending children in care to boarding school reduces risk, says minister 01 Apr 2025 - More cuts to care on way - council chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care services on brink of collapse, survey shows 01 Apr 2025 - Early years cuts 'pushing more children into care' in England 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond to raise billions in extra tax for the NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Council mergers on the rise as almost 500 shared services deals agreed to cope with austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Most leaders expect some councils to face ‘serious financial crisis’ next year 01 Apr 2025 - Hope for children’s services amid the cuts 01 Apr 2025 - LGA in Right to Buy warning 01 Apr 2025 - £30m cash boost to tackle rough sleepers 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of schoolchildren buy takeaway for lunch at least once a week, child obesity study finds 01 Apr 2025 - Digital and social media firms should be forced to protect children from addiction, experts say 01 Apr 2025 - Adoption and care rates higher in some areas 01 Apr 2025 - Tesco boss blames business rates for retail woes 01 Apr 2025 - How debt kills 01 Apr 2025 - Carillion collapse to cost taxpayers £148m 01 Apr 2025 - Store landlords push back against rent cuts 01 Apr 2025 - More than 1.5 million Brits are living in destitution as shocking report warns ministers to take urgent action 01 Apr 2025 - £9m flagship free school to close just four years after opening 01 Apr 2025 - Massive 82% of voters would back a tax rise to fund the NHS as new poll puts Theresa May under pressure 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to oversee 'new town' corps 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap all districts says Heseltine 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council to sell historic County Hall building 01 Apr 2025 - Britain’s shameful care home time bomb 01 Apr 2025 - A revolution to help Britain's army of unpaid carers: Workers who look after relatives will be offered flexible working including extended lunch breaks and ten extra days off 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May should stop tinkering and start spending [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - We need more school places - but not in grammars [opinon] 01 Apr 2025 - Grenfell Tower fire council spends 25% of reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Councils take key Prevent strategy role 01 Apr 2025 - 400k frail and vulnerable elderly people lose out on free care at home due to council cuts while others live in ‘care deserts’ where there’s no help at all, warns charity 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes putting people off cycling, survey finds 01 Apr 2025 - Neil Amin-Smith: Research reveals 100% rates retention pilots are not cost-neutral 01 Apr 2025 - NHS trust deficit nearly twice as much as expected 01 Apr 2025 - Parliament passes Dorset reorganisation plans 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall must take control of 'faltering' academy finances, council chiefs say 01 Apr 2025 - 'Pay-as-you-go' bin scheme 'could leave households £50 a year worse off' 01 Apr 2025 - Over £200m spent on inquiries with little evidence of learning, NAO reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government single departmental plan 01 Apr 2025 - Plant nurseries will remain exempt from business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Liam Booth-Smith appointed Brokenshire's special adviser 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher recruitment agencies face fees crackdown 01 Apr 2025 - 'Pinball kids experience too much change in care' 01 Apr 2025 - Minister says 'no more Northamptonshires imminent' 01 Apr 2025 - Parents 'not involved' in new free schools 01 Apr 2025 - Free schools boost for England's worst-performing areas 01 Apr 2025 - DfE announces £50m to expand special schools, but the money isn’t new 01 Apr 2025 - In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything 01 Apr 2025 - Ranking every pupil helps the poorest, head insists 01 Apr 2025 - 'Pay-as-you-go' bin scheme 'could leave households £50 a year worse off' 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords to fight use of CVAs by retailers seeking rent cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted admits some 'outstanding schools aren't that good' 01 Apr 2025 - Free school transport lost for 20,000 rural pupils 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar school expansion fund will not improve children’s outcomes, study says 01 Apr 2025 - UK public finances start new tax year on strong footing 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council sells off old sites 01 Apr 2025 - German police stop 'truant' families at airport 01 Apr 2025 - The Seattle battle is a warning over tax raising (Opinion) 01 Apr 2025 - Obesity rate in UK children doubles during primary school years to top US figure 01 Apr 2025 - Drop in apprenticeships sparks calls for reform of levy-based system 01 Apr 2025 - Singing from the same hymn sheet [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Fair funding: eyes on the prize [opinon] 01 Apr 2025 - Council told to 'grip financial situation' 01 Apr 2025 - Social care funding plans branded costly and unfair 01 Apr 2025 - Simon Edwards: 'No guarantee county unitary moves will snowball' 01 Apr 2025 - Plan for single 'unitary' Northampton council rejected 01 Apr 2025 - Patients trapped by care closures: Elderly face being stranded in hospital wards 01 Apr 2025 - Three in four Britons felt overwhelmed by stress, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Minimum wage for sleep-in shifts poses ‘existential threat’ to care sector 01 Apr 2025 - Brokenshire announces Northamptonshire commissioners 01 Apr 2025 - https://www.themj.co.uk/Dawes-Another-Section-114-possible/210840 01 Apr 2025 - Northants makes ‘unprecedented’ use of reserves to balance books 01 Apr 2025 - Business Rates Bill and additional information 01 Apr 2025 - Spiraling drug deaths blamed on swingeing funding cuts to services 01 Apr 2025 - Taskforce Drafted In To Run 'Bankrupt' Tory-Led Northamptonshire Council 01 Apr 2025 - MPs urge government to release cash for removal of Grenfell-style cladding 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole 'epidemic' costs £1m a month in motoring claims, says AA 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar and faith schools get green light to expand 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rates on hold as Bank cuts growth outlook 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset £28m unitary savings claim 'unrealistic' 01 Apr 2025 - High street rents 'killing more and more retailers' says Debenhams chairman 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Cash-strapped care sector needs public image boost’ 01 Apr 2025 - Tax on pensioners proposed to heal inter-generational divide 01 Apr 2025 - Parks provide over £34bn of health benefits, report says 01 Apr 2025 - Social care could be ‘rescued’ with £2.3bn boost, report says 01 Apr 2025 - Government pledges £28m to help disadvantaged children 01 Apr 2025 - Local election results 2018: Mixed picture for Labour and Tories 01 Apr 2025 - Anne Ashworth: Brokenshire must mend the market [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Cities express doubt over four-county 'combined authority' 01 Apr 2025 - James Brokenshire: ‘Clear space and scope’ for more unitaries 01 Apr 2025 - Scrapping Somerset councils 'may save £28m a year' 01 Apr 2025 - Schools could be forced to weigh pupils for Ofsted obesity checks 01 Apr 2025 - Election 2018: Council polls taking place across England 01 Apr 2025 - David Simmonds: Brokenshire is 'good news' for councils 01 Apr 2025 - LGA gets £1.5m to help boost councils’ cyber security 01 Apr 2025 - Javid to be new Home Secretary, Brokenshire to MHCLG 01 Apr 2025 - Government achieves first current budget surplus for 16 years 01 Apr 2025 - Incremental pay rises - an endangered species? 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warned not to cap personal care budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Cornwall proposes post-Brexit plan to create 20,000 jobs 01 Apr 2025 - Concern over Northants' future amid rushed reorganisation claims 01 Apr 2025 - Councils defended for management of £375m in section 106 receipts 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems slam use of property profits at Surrey County Council 01 Apr 2025 - Sector backs MPs' business rates call 01 Apr 2025 - NHS hospitals face vital vote to free them of £400m a year tax bill 01 Apr 2025 - Inquiry into child sexual abuse warns of ‘lack of transparency’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social care system needs £10bn to stay afloat, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - Grayson Perry backs borough’s £3.5m ‘artists’ house’ plans 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to implement effective interpretation and translation services 01 Apr 2025 - Concern over Northants' future amid rushed reorganisation claims 01 Apr 2025 - MPs: Councils need grants as well as increased business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders discuss 'combined authority' across four counties 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers are wilfully blind to austerity's decimation of preventative services [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives pledge 'cheaper and better' local councils 01 Apr 2025 - Britain left behind as growth slows 01 Apr 2025 - Hospitals launch legal challenge to save £300m a year in rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - Minister raises possibility of social care funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates pilot payout proves costly to the sector 01 Apr 2025 - Food bank use four times higher in Universal Credit areas 01 Apr 2025 - Areas which rejected devolution deals left with mixed feelings [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - County accused of lack of candour over '£60m black hole' report 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond accepts £2 limit for addictive fixed odds betting terminals 01 Apr 2025 - Are social care services improving people's wellbeing? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Sun, sea and stonkingly large council tax bills 01 Apr 2025 - MPs demand government explains business rate U-turn 01 Apr 2025 - Outsourcing giant Capita warns of £500m losses 01 Apr 2025 - Promise broken to compensate councils for business rate changes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils Have Failed To Spend £375m Earmarked To Ease The Housing Crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘could save millions on energy’ 01 Apr 2025 - Pothole related breakdowns soar following harsh winter 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation falls to 2.5% 01 Apr 2025 - UK pay squeeze comes to an end 01 Apr 2025 - How can we tackle the pothole crisis? Scourge of the roads is a £9.3bn headache that's only getting worse 01 Apr 2025 - Home education compulsory registration? 01 Apr 2025 - Amendment to protect free bus passes announced 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 1,000 Sure Start children's centres have closed since 2009 01 Apr 2025 - Holiday town's hidden fight with deadly drug problem 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses and councils offered own PCSOs for £37k a year. 01 Apr 2025 - Over 100,000 children to lose free school meals under reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Rapid rise in children's centre closures causes concern 01 Apr 2025 - Review of council powers over unauthorised traveller sites 01 Apr 2025 - What is the gender pay gap at your company? 01 Apr 2025 - Travel training gives young people with learning disabilities a ticket to ride 01 Apr 2025 - Council decides to exhaust reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Scrutinising care provision 01 Apr 2025 - Grayling promises to fill "4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire“ and many more elsewhere 01 Apr 2025 - Javid announces £30m to tackle homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Spending on children and young people's services cut by nearly £1bn in six years, figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Child poverty: Pale and hungry pupils 'fill pockets with school food' 01 Apr 2025 - Tories accused of manifesto breach after 60,000 homes miss out on legal right to minimum broadband speed 01 Apr 2025 - MPs call for more holistic approach to improving social care 01 Apr 2025 - Commissioners to take direct financial control of Northants council 01 Apr 2025 - Pupils asked to bring waste home by school 01 Apr 2025 - Spending restrictions save Northants £400,000 01 Apr 2025 - Councils awarded £900,000 for connected maintenance 01 Apr 2025 - Javid calls for unitary proposals from Northamptonshire councils 01 Apr 2025 - Government intends to take over Northamptonshire's finances 01 Apr 2025 - What to look out for in May's local elections 01 Apr 2025 - Council leader welcomes independent inquiry into child sexual abuse 01 Apr 2025 - Upgrading wind farms could bring £100m to communities, study says 01 Apr 2025 - Taking action for those jailed over unpaid council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Scale of child abuse survey 'needed every 10 years' 01 Apr 2025 - Children in north 'face double whammy' of poverty and bad schools 01 Apr 2025 - Government action on councils failing to plan new homes 01 Apr 2025 - Council employee exploited systems 'failures' to steal £1m 01 Apr 2025 - Javid approves creation of new district council 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped Northants criticised for paying £900,000 to former CEO's firm 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall launched £260m package to improve air quality 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £15m in cultural regeneration funds 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall announces £3.4m for five new adoption agencies 01 Apr 2025 - Tory vow to repair Britain's potholes slammed as Chris Grayling pledges £100million to tackle £9billion crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Bottle deposit plan would fix ‘dirty Britain’ 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Funding reforms at odds with social care aims 01 Apr 2025 - Alison Michalska: Not investing in children is a false economy 01 Apr 2025 - Warning over cash for care leaver advisors 01 Apr 2025 - Social care faces swallowing half of all tax councils can raise by 2035 01 Apr 2025 - Taunton Deane-West Somerset merger backed by Sajid Javid 01 Apr 2025 - Javid orders review after second council payment error 01 Apr 2025 - Corbyn challenges PM over 'slash and burn' cuts in council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face 'decades more austerity' as social care set to account for half of town hall revenues 01 Apr 2025 - Teaching union calls for 5% pay rise with possible strike backing 01 Apr 2025 - 'Radical change' needed on countryside 01 Apr 2025 - Poor children 2kg heavier than rich 01 Apr 2025 - Benefits payment blunder will cost taxpayer £700m 01 Apr 2025 - Councils overpaid by £36 million in `historic´ Government error 01 Apr 2025 - Care workers' pay for 'sleep-in' shifts case reaches appeal court 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts to youth services lead to rise in crime warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Wholly unacceptable’ that central gov does not have clear answer to benefits of LEPs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘struggling to balance the books,’ with no knowledge of how spending will work from 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Eight out of 10 academies in deficit, say accountants 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt confirms individual costs for social care to be capped 01 Apr 2025 - Sure Start funding halved in eight years, figures show 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers propose reducing number of councils from 22 to ten 01 Apr 2025 - Labour council chiefs promise councils ‘ten new freedoms’ 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes leave one in five local roads in poor condition as councils face funding deficit 01 Apr 2025 - Government bails out overspending Kingston 01 Apr 2025 - Scrap 'outdated and regressive council tax,' says think-tank 01 Apr 2025 - The long road to rates retention 01 Apr 2025 - Local councils prepare to lobby MPs for extra powers 01 Apr 2025 - Updated: Unison set to 'reluctantly' accept pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - School breakfast clubs to receive up to £26 million in major boost for hungry kids 01 Apr 2025 - Call for city centre drug testing stations 'to save lives' 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Bankrupt’ council’s problems not a factor in PCC fire service takeover decision. 01 Apr 2025 - Spring statement sees rates revaluation brought forward to 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Guy Ware: The business rates retention row of ducks [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - IFRS9 overrides could be in place before April 2019 01 Apr 2025 - Inspector slams Northamptonshire officers and members for financial failings 01 Apr 2025 - Manchester to pay care staff living wage 01 Apr 2025 - Power in the country lanes 01 Apr 2025 - Care home quality and choice ‘likely to get worse’, council chiefs warn 01 Apr 2025 - Number of secondary schools in deficit has 'trebled' 01 Apr 2025 - Secondary school pupil numbers will rise by more than 600,000 by 2023 01 Apr 2025 - National Insurance could rise by a penny in the pound to prevent a repeat of this winter's A&E crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Government backs DoLS replacement 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council 'should be scrapped' 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of councils have no men working in their nurseries, as parents assume they pose risk to children 01 Apr 2025 - UK will need to impose tax rises of £30bn to balance budget – IFS 01 Apr 2025 - MPs warn of 'poisonous air' emergency costing £20bn a year 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement: Hammond opens bids for £840m transport pot 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement: Philip Hammond hails better debt and growth forecasts 01 Apr 2025 - Five English councils to adopt integration plans 01 Apr 2025 - Austerity will have cast an extra 1.5m children into poverty by 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Overwhelming backing for 2% pay offer from GMB's members 01 Apr 2025 - 'Light at the end of the tunnel' Philip Hammond hints at an end to austerity 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Statement 2018: Philip Hammond fixes his eye on the horizon while local councils drown 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond to snub ministers' demands for more money for NHS and defence as he makes Spring Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Slow broadband take-up hurting rural areas 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond plots £1billion VAT blitz on small firms by cutting payment threshold 01 Apr 2025 - Freezing weather will lead to spike in UK potholes, motoring experts warn 01 Apr 2025 - Javid backs county unitary in Buckinghamshire 01 Apr 2025 - Government owes £5.3trn in pensions - ONS 01 Apr 2025 - Councils on the brink of going bust as report reveals Government has slashed funding by 50% 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor's spring statement to reveal £11bn boost 01 Apr 2025 - Class sizes up in 'two-thirds of secondary schools' 01 Apr 2025 - Freezing weather will lead to spike in UK potholes, motoring experts warn 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children 'paying the price of Tory austerity', John McDonnell says 01 Apr 2025 - Councils need urgent long-term funding plan, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs warn of children’s social care crisis in the north west 01 Apr 2025 - Manchester CC ‘dramatically’ increases spend in local economy 01 Apr 2025 - Willetts makes case for baby boomer tax 01 Apr 2025 - Most Yorkshire councils unite in joint devolution bid 01 Apr 2025 - Counting the cost of adult social care as councils set spending budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall blasted for ‘over-simplification’ of social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate retention ‘may not achieve goal’ 01 Apr 2025 - Social Workers 'unbearable' workloads 'underestimated by Government 01 Apr 2025 - John McDonnell: Spring Statement 'must help ailing councils' 01 Apr 2025 - Revised Northamptonshire budget includes ‘regrettable’ proposals in light of severe challenges 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates retention poses ‘some risk’ to core PH funding, says DHSC minister 01 Apr 2025 - DHSC concerned about Northamptonshire’s ability to meet statutory responsibilities 01 Apr 2025 - LGA urges for social care to have ‘equal footing’ to NHS to close funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Chris Buss: Is fair funding mission impossible? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - George Osborne austerity target is hit — 2 years late 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises to boost bills by £81 in England 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire county council chief cuts £40m to stave off bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly half of girls have self-harmed 01 Apr 2025 - Nadhim Zahawi: Leadership key to turning round failing children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Projects launched to support care leavers 01 Apr 2025 - Survey reveals ‘sharp drop’ in satisfaction with social care 01 Apr 2025 - Projects launched to support care leavers 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of childcare surges to £122 a week leaving parents 'treading water', report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond is unlikely to squander the fiscal dividend he is sitting on [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset councils to merge in biggest local government shake-up in 40 years 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax hikes will not stop cuts to local services, authorities warn 01 Apr 2025 - Auditors warn Northamptonshire CC budget could be ‘illegal’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local government and health leaders urged to remake partnership 01 Apr 2025 - Whiteman raises question of LOBO litigation and mis-selling 01 Apr 2025 - Room151 survey probes sustainability of local government finance 01 Apr 2025 - Dan Bates: Settlement reveals fragility of the system and the need to speak up on fair funding 01 Apr 2025 - The extent of business rates relief fraud 01 Apr 2025 - Landowners in Wales face tax in Welsh Government plans 01 Apr 2025 - Roll-out of lane rental plans for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Financial faultline opens to create an east-west economic divide 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council repaying £150m in LOBO loans 01 Apr 2025 - Surge in poverty rates among children of public sector worker parents 01 Apr 2025 - Local councils want more power to be able to increase amount of fines handed to drivers 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation still at 3% despite fall in food prices 01 Apr 2025 - Carillion: accountants accused of 'feasting' on company 01 Apr 2025 - Anxiety over lack of children's sector-led improvement funding 01 Apr 2025 - MPs give green light to local government finance settlement 01 Apr 2025 - ..NAO warns on ‘neglected’ social care 01 Apr 2025 - Care provider Four Seasons temporarily bailed out 01 Apr 2025 - Over half of councils plan to cut spending on children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Westminster council proposes ‘voluntary’ council tax scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire tables unitary plans to combat ‘bleak financial position’ 01 Apr 2025 - Schools struggle to get mental health help, says survey 01 Apr 2025 - Bank of England hints at earlier and faster rate rises 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax hikes planned 'across England' 01 Apr 2025 - Council budgets: One in three spent more than planned 01 Apr 2025 - Cash crisis forces secondary schools in England to cut 15,000 staff 01 Apr 2025 - Anti-obesity programmes in primary schools 'don't work' 01 Apr 2025 - Govt could re-nationalise East Coast line after £200m loss 01 Apr 2025 - Call for Javid to resign after 'misleading' House of Commons 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for ‘locally-driven’ successor to EU aid 01 Apr 2025 - Javid gives councils £150m social care funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘will not benefit equally’ from business rate retention 01 Apr 2025 - Poorest areas face biggest cuts to children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Carers for disabled adults have ‘no plans for future’, campaigners warn 01 Apr 2025 - Seven south Essex councils form 'association' 01 Apr 2025 - County council imposes an emergency spending ban 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire sparks warnings other councils could ‘fail’ 01 Apr 2025 - Outsourcing giant Capita announces profit warning and massive debt 01 Apr 2025 - Governments formally agree on first Welsh devolved taxes in 800 years 01 Apr 2025 - Capita situation is not ‘another Carillion’, says Cabinet Office minister 01 Apr 2025 - Union attacks county plan to take over children and family services 01 Apr 2025 - UK must tackle 'astonishing' cost of congestion, study says 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire MPs call for county council takeover 01 Apr 2025 - Parents paid £1m over 'shambles' childcare scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Tory councillors all resign from local council 01 Apr 2025 - Dozens of academy schools need bailouts from taxpayers 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council 'warned it was unsustainable' 01 Apr 2025 - The Guardian view on council spending: a crisis unfolding [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Tax the over 65s to fund their care’ 01 Apr 2025 - 'Council wrong' to stop care home fees, says ombudsman 01 Apr 2025 - Northern education gap 'should be solved through devolution' 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh council proposes 12.5% council tax hike 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face huge bills as foster carers jump ship to private agencies 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher retention: Government 'failing to get a grip' 01 Apr 2025 - Young black men bearing the brunt of deadly violence in London 01 Apr 2025 - Heads warn of 'chronic' funding shortages 01 Apr 2025 - Government to review 1.6m disability benefit claims after U-turn 01 Apr 2025 - Private foster care agencies increasing cost of finding children homes 01 Apr 2025 - MPs invite views on joint inquiry into long-term funding to inform social care green paper 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of householders 'face council tax increase of up to £80' as ministers relax cap on bills 01 Apr 2025 - Council to sell brand new £53m headquarters 01 Apr 2025 - High proportions of under-performing schools in some areas 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes send breakdown figures flying 01 Apr 2025 - UK employment surges to record high, wages edge up 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax is a regressive tax - it's time to do something 01 Apr 2025 - County rejects proposal to lose control of fire services 01 Apr 2025 - James Maker: What the reshuffle means for counties 01 Apr 2025 - Road maintenance spending at ‘lowest level’ in a decade 01 Apr 2025 - Pay offer to local government workers is final, say employers 01 Apr 2025 - Finance settlement 'shambles' after provisional data wrong 01 Apr 2025 - Council offers voluntary redundancy to its staff 01 Apr 2025 - MPs ‘strikingly pessimistic’ about the quality of local care homes 01 Apr 2025 - County agrees £10m Carillion exit deal 01 Apr 2025 - Public health cuts ‘threaten children’s health’ 01 Apr 2025 - Hinds says schools face digital challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £45m for ‘successful’ academies 01 Apr 2025 - Children's services in Norfolk no longer need intervention 01 Apr 2025 - Children's centres undermined by ministers, says charity 01 Apr 2025 - A million lonely pensioners left to starve in their homes 01 Apr 2025 - Union urges council staff to reject pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Councils accused of putting lives at risk after cash spent on fixing potholes on minor roads falls to lowest level in more than a decade 01 Apr 2025 - PFI deals 'costing taxpayers billions' 01 Apr 2025 - Is social mobility really about school cash? 01 Apr 2025 - Grayling’s East Coast experiment risks coming off the rails 01 Apr 2025 - Minister for loneliness appointed to continue Jo Cox's work 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax set to increase as Kent County Council announces spending plans 01 Apr 2025 - 20mph zones net £57m for police 01 Apr 2025 - Only five councils bid for electric car charge points funding 01 Apr 2025 - Essex council claims it is on track to become UK's first self-sufficient unitary authority 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for improvement to Apprenticeship Levy 01 Apr 2025 - Local gov overwhelmingly ‘opts up’ to professional status as MiFID II launches 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to be clear on care home costs 01 Apr 2025 - No new devolution deals agreed in 2016-17 01 Apr 2025 - Child referred to social services every 49 seconds amid rising reports of domestic violence 01 Apr 2025 - Support for apprentice levy goes up in flames 01 Apr 2025 - Council proposes name change to strengthen ‘geographical identity’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inspectors sent in to probe Northamptonshire Council's finances 01 Apr 2025 - Northgate acquired by Japanese corporation NEC for £475m 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May's cabinet: Who's who and how diverse are they? 01 Apr 2025 - Javid: New name will focus minds of cabinet colleagues on housing 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG renamed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 01 Apr 2025 - Affordable childcare inquiry launched 01 Apr 2025 - Build care homes by schools to mix generations 01 Apr 2025 - Crisis in teacher recruitment as applications fall by a third 01 Apr 2025 - Local government ‘in need of radical reinvention’ 01 Apr 2025 - Christchurch bids to stop Dorset councils reorganisation 01 Apr 2025 - Some councils paying ‘excessive’ costs for paper, research reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Telford & Wrekin council tax to rise 3.2pc 01 Apr 2025 - Council warns of ‘unprecedented’ fire safety funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Lone child refugees are costing British councils £70,000 a year each 01 Apr 2025 - Heads warn MPs of 'extremely bleak' funding problems 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare funding 'will create 9,000 places'

2017

01 Apr 2025 - Council tax hikes planned 'across England' 01 Apr 2025 - Four councils set to receive funding for post-Grenfell safety works 01 Apr 2025 - Road use charges should be tailored to drivers, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Bookies may sue if stake is capped at £2 01 Apr 2025 - All public service contracting ‘should be paused’ 01 Apr 2025 - Anger at nearly £4k disabled parking bay charge 01 Apr 2025 - Scandal of inadequate apprenticeships 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers back down in legal battle over disability benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Union urges council staff to reject pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Parents 'shelling out for free nursery scheme' 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate drops back to 3% 01 Apr 2025 - Council ‘struggling’ to resettle refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Council vows to continue with £80m development 01 Apr 2025 - Schools to fine parents £60 when their children are just half an hour late for school 01 Apr 2025 - Educational opportunities ‘geographically unequal’, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Barnsley and Doncaster vote for 'One Yorkshire' devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - 'Extra £450m funding' for police in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax bills in England may rise by up to 5.99% 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Culture change’ needed to improve local government scrutiny, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Council proposes stopping sick pay for three days 01 Apr 2025 - Pensions: Automatic saving to start at 18 under new plans 01 Apr 2025 - Child sex abuse referrals soar by nearly a third in a year, warns NSPCC 01 Apr 2025 - £200 million funding boost for England’s roads 01 Apr 2025 - Government faces call to slow the pace of funding cuts while business rates retention is resolved 01 Apr 2025 - Prudential code to drop ‘borrowing in advance’ ban 01 Apr 2025 - Bus travel plummets amid funding cuts, city congestion and a rise in car ownership 01 Apr 2025 - Primary league tables: Special-needs pupils struggle with new tests 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted warns of 130 schools failing to improve for 12 years 01 Apr 2025 - More than 1,400 NHS dementia patients well enough to go home at Christmas will be stranded in hospital, warns charity 01 Apr 2025 - Weakest schools struggle with teacher 'burnout' 01 Apr 2025 - ITV film reveals serious failings at UK children’s homes 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to unlock £7bn of untapped assets 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk County councillors award themselves 11% rise in allowance 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate rises to 3.1% 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses hit by rate rise wait for cash relief 01 Apr 2025 - DfE has 'growing recognition' of children's funding pressure 01 Apr 2025 - Unions make 5% pay increase claim for local government craft workers 01 Apr 2025 - Government awards councils new funding to transform local communities 01 Apr 2025 - Minister confirms £72,500 social care cap plan scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding could be cut in half in next two years 01 Apr 2025 - Council spending on libraries cut by £66m last year 01 Apr 2025 - Number of contested business rates bills slumps under new system 01 Apr 2025 - £650m cut from early education 01 Apr 2025 - Green paper seeks to boost school mental health support 01 Apr 2025 - Chinese plastics ban threatens council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - £72,500 social care cap to be scrapped, MPs told 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could face up to £1bn in late payment penalties, report warns 01 Apr 2025 - 'Stark' increase in overweight youngsters 01 Apr 2025 - More than a million council workers offered 2% pay deal 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority audit fees ‘may be cut’ 01 Apr 2025 - Salford mother Nicola Newns fined over sick son’s school absence 01 Apr 2025 - Poverty hits more children and pensioners, says charity 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority audit fees ‘may be cut’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority audit fees ‘may be cut’ 01 Apr 2025 - Research highlights ways to streamline local authority funding 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher training target missed for fifth year in a row in England 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Corbyn fear’ sees pension fund body advise Labour council to invest abroad 01 Apr 2025 - Industrial Strategy snubs councils 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Mansion tax’ proposed for £10m homes in Westminster 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes: Public 'pay unfair fees to plug £1bn shortfall' 01 Apr 2025 - Council cuts responsible for £1bn care home sector shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Social mobility in UK 'a postcode lottery', report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Pullman's plea to save school libraries 01 Apr 2025 - New industrial strategy to change Britain's productivity 'weakness' 01 Apr 2025 - Social care councils draw billions from reserves 01 Apr 2025 - Have there been two decades of failure to reform social care? 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeship numbers fall by 59% after levy imposed 01 Apr 2025 - Summary of Budget 2017: Key points at-a-glance 01 Apr 2025 - North of England hardest hit by government cuts 01 Apr 2025 - UK government borrowing grows in October 01 Apr 2025 - Public services face real-terms spending cuts of up to 40% in decade to 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Social care to cost 60% of council tax by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn funding for public services is ‘outdated and unfair’ 01 Apr 2025 - City regions get £1.7bn funding boost to transform transport 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face more disclosures on their commercial property investments 01 Apr 2025 - Government accused of 'dragging feet' on social care review 01 Apr 2025 - Report calls for end to borough and district councils 01 Apr 2025 - Head teachers across England call for £1.7bn extra school funding 01 Apr 2025 - Research partner chosen for children's social care project 01 Apr 2025 - Councils can only afford to help children in crisis, charities warn 01 Apr 2025 - County outlines savings of £27m 01 Apr 2025 - Social care could drain local services cash dry, warns LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Budget will be ‘bad news’ for public finances, says Resolution Foundation 01 Apr 2025 - Council mergers in Dorset and Suffolk move a step closer 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation remains at five-year high 01 Apr 2025 - Public-sector pay rise should be guaranteed, says think tank 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £2.7bn on risky assets in property buying frenzy 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers demand funding for 5% pay rise in budget 01 Apr 2025 - 'Why is London getting 10 times as much transport cash per head as Yorkshire?' 01 Apr 2025 - Council staff told to take mandatory unpaid leave 01 Apr 2025 - Boost for small businesses as Philip Hammond scraps rates rise 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities turning to commercialisation to escape austerity 01 Apr 2025 - England mayors call for more tax control 01 Apr 2025 - Councils respond to sleep-in back pay announcement 01 Apr 2025 - First UK interest rate rise in 10 years 01 Apr 2025 - Overnight carer back pay scheme 'unaffordable' 01 Apr 2025 - UK interest rate decision looms 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend doubles on social workers hired from agencies 01 Apr 2025 - More than a third of councils haven’t paid into the Chancellor’s £300m fund to help pay firms hit by tax rises 01 Apr 2025 - Benefit cuts main cause of surge in demand for children’s services, warn council leaders 01 Apr 2025 - DfE announces pilot programmes to encourage flexible working in schools 01 Apr 2025 - Pepper the robot to take on social care tasks 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond's £20bn black hole may mean it's time to scrap deficit target, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Budget: Hammond faces spending dilemma, says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - PMQs: Long term 'Full and Open' ASC Consultation to be Published 'in Due Course' 01 Apr 2025 - Council councils’ face £2.54bn funding black hole by 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Woman who was abused by foster parents wins historic legal battle with 'far-reaching implications' for local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Javid: Government should borrow to build more homes 01 Apr 2025 - Extra homelessness funding ‘not enough’, say lower tier authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Government hits 10-year low for September borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - 'Troubled services' costing £10bn to keep going by Government 01 Apr 2025 - Richard Harbord: a clear vision needed for local government 01 Apr 2025 - Care cap would cost counties £330m a year, warns research 01 Apr 2025 - County funding black hole set to treble to £2.5bn by 2021 01 Apr 2025 - Local roads get £350m funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Councils paid out more than £3m last year due to pothole damage 01 Apr 2025 - Councils turn to lotteries in latest drive to raise income 01 Apr 2025 - Childcare costs rise up to seven times faster than wages 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly patients could be put at risk by pressure to empty NHS beds, warns social care chief inspector 01 Apr 2025 - Hospital beds blocked twice as long while old await home help 01 Apr 2025 - Squabble over bed-blocking leaves older patients in limbo 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation at highest since April 2012 01 Apr 2025 - The sleep-in care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Future standard of health and social care ‘precarious’ 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers 'refusing to pay for fire safety measures' after Grenfell 01 Apr 2025 - Britain’s first race audit reveals extent of discrimination 01 Apr 2025 - Are councils really afraid to innovate? 01 Apr 2025 - Tories discard plan to cap care home fees by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Furious businesses cry ‘foul’ over time limit for rates appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Productivity decline is headache for Hammond 01 Apr 2025 - Nine-tenths of English councils ‘facing shortage of care home places by 2022’ 01 Apr 2025 - Somerset County Council paid out £1.8million on a single pothole compensation claim 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond’s budget cupboard is almost bare, Treasury document reveals 01 Apr 2025 - U.K. Gets Fresh Warning on Consumer Borrowing From Top Regulator 01 Apr 2025 - Better for elderly to die at home 01 Apr 2025 - Nine in ten councils will run out of care homes places within five years because they are not doing enough to cope with the ageing population 01 Apr 2025 - Council warns it may have to bring in mandatory unpaid leave 01 Apr 2025 - Cancelled operations due to 'delayed discharges' thought to cause thousands of deaths each year 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond to announce 'more money' for Northern Powerhouse rail 01 Apr 2025 - Universal credit rollout going ahead as planned, David Gauke suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Counties’ funding gap could widen with business rate retention 01 Apr 2025 - Head teacher turns rebel over funding 01 Apr 2025 - UK must deal with its debts, May to say 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for Budget to plug councils’ ‘£5.3bn’ funding black hole 01 Apr 2025 - Cybercrime hit 76% of councils last year, says survey 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for 2% health precept to invest in prevention 01 Apr 2025 - Labour promise to deliver local government ‘renaissance’ 01 Apr 2025 - Flu may cause bed shortages Public Health England warned 01 Apr 2025 - STPs ‘under pressure’ and ‘under funded’, survey reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors agree to creation of new Durham City authority 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Decisions are being taken out of our hands’ – social workers on care cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Council-owned company purchases first property 01 Apr 2025 - CIL: A golden opportunity? 01 Apr 2025 - Scrapping the 1% pay increase ‘could cost the Treasury £6bn a year’ 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector employment is at 70-year low, says GMB report 01 Apr 2025 - Job stress is 'overwhelming' teachers across the UK 01 Apr 2025 - Councils struggle to cope with influx of child refugees as number in local authority's care doubles in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Union claims pay cap is stripping billions of pounds from council budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire County Council: Appeal for 'fairer funding' 01 Apr 2025 - ..Spending cuts have had no effect on the public, say nine in ten councils despite claims by politicians that less money will cause widespread damage 01 Apr 2025 - Eddington housing estate in Cambridge scraps wheelie bins 01 Apr 2025 - Firefighters reject 2% pay rise saying it had ‘host of strings’ attached 01 Apr 2025 - UK cities expected to get millions of pounds for green energy projects 01 Apr 2025 - Illegal strike threat from unions after pay cap row 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher retention efforts 'not working' 01 Apr 2025 - Police and prison staff to get more than 1% pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers' pay in England down by 12% in 10 years, influential study reveals 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate rises to 2.9% 01 Apr 2025 - Unions demand 5% pay rise for all public sector staff 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham bin strike: John Clancy resigns as city council leader 01 Apr 2025 - Parents ‘sue school’ after boy in son’s class allowed to wear dress 01 Apr 2025 - Disabled child travel cuts 'force parents to work less' 01 Apr 2025 - Newcastle backs calls for a 5% pay rise for all staff 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay cap to be lifted for police and prison officers 01 Apr 2025 - U.K. Growth Forecasts Lowered as Business Sees No Pound Boost 01 Apr 2025 - Half of teachers and social workers want to quit, poll finds 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers' funding fears for breakfast clubs 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May 'to lift public sector pay cap this month' 01 Apr 2025 - Too many new pupils not school ready, say head teachers 01 Apr 2025 - Cut business rates for premises offering toilet access, says MP 01 Apr 2025 - Pay cap pressure growing on government ministers 01 Apr 2025 - How will councils survive the funding abyss? 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector pay cap 'to be lifted next year' 01 Apr 2025 - People power: how cash-strapped councils are turning to crowdfunding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to be banned by ministers from using bin fines as means to generate income 01 Apr 2025 - Government names trial areas for 'full-fibre' broadband 01 Apr 2025 - Low emission bus scheme 2015: additional winning bids 01 Apr 2025 - Councils resettle over one third of Gov’s Syrian refugee target 01 Apr 2025 - Council to test how Amazon Echo can support older people 01 Apr 2025 - Downing St considers plan to lift cap on public pay increases 01 Apr 2025 - No interest rate rise for at least a year, economists say 01 Apr 2025 - We’re addicted to debt and headed for a crash. It could be worse than 2007 01 Apr 2025 - MPs declare sports and bookies as most common donors 01 Apr 2025 - Riots erupt at HMP Birmingham - one wing 'lost' 01 Apr 2025 - Nicola Sturgeon 'to scrap public sector pay rise cap' 01 Apr 2025 - High-profile Tories back Labour bill on free meals in school holidays 01 Apr 2025 - Most adults unprepared for care costs 01 Apr 2025 - Scots business rate review calls for extension to new sectors 01 Apr 2025 - Lancs merger of s151 and CEO roles sparks accountability row 01 Apr 2025 - Government should scrap 'undeliverable' discharge targets warn counties 01 Apr 2025 - Maths teachers hit out at 'extraordinary' funding decision 01 Apr 2025 - Home care provider market under threat from lack of funds 01 Apr 2025 - All of a sudden Britain has become the slowest growing of the major western economies 01 Apr 2025 - North should 'take control' of transport, says Grayling 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond urged to save struggling small firms from ‘staircase tax’ that will charge businesses thousands 01 Apr 2025 - European Investment Bank cuts off cash for British building projects due to Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Families could get supermarket discounts if they hit NHS exercise targets 01 Apr 2025 - Care home chief warns sector is on the brink of catastrophic failure 01 Apr 2025 - Cash-strapped councils told to meet ‘undeliverable’ bed-blocking targets or have social care funding slashed 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs call for ‘light touch’ procurement rules post-Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - NHS call for equality over private hospitals' tax break 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham seven-week bin strike comes to an end 01 Apr 2025 - Collapse in business rate appeals is a ‘disaster’ for small companies 01 Apr 2025 - Pay growth to stay weak, says forecast 01 Apr 2025 - Vulnerable children not in crisis are 'left in limbo' 01 Apr 2025 - Emergency call-outs for mental health patients soar 01 Apr 2025 - Wheelie bins replaced by underground waste system 01 Apr 2025 - Council chatbots? 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of special needs children left without school plan 01 Apr 2025 - One in six care homes 'at risk of failure due to rising costs and funding cuts' 01 Apr 2025 - Now Labour backs clampdown on ‘crack cocaine’ betting machines 01 Apr 2025 - Biggest rise in local authority spend to be on adult social services 01 Apr 2025 - Darling: 'Alarm bells ringing' for UK economy 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services more than £600m in the red, warn councils 01 Apr 2025 - Is your local care home inadequate? 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £54m to help councils unlock surplus land 01 Apr 2025 - Government awards councils £75m road improvement cash 01 Apr 2025 - Drug-related deaths could cost councils £700m this year, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Most local ombudsman complaints for education and children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Closing roads for play makes 'sense for public health' 01 Apr 2025 - Council considers cutting workforce by 20% 01 Apr 2025 - Government looks to speed up small business rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - Government confirms talks over second West Midlands devolution deal 01 Apr 2025 - Government looks to speed up small business rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - Sugar tax 'must not be used to plug school budgets' 01 Apr 2025 - Council writes off £1.2m of debt 01 Apr 2025 - Cities in England's north pressing for more money 01 Apr 2025 - Essex nursery 'closes because of universal free hours scheme' 01 Apr 2025 - London-centric policies have left North underfunded by billions, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector workers work £11bn of unpaid overtime a year, union says 01 Apr 2025 - Councils given £15m to ease pressures of migration 01 Apr 2025 - CCN calls for ‘new deal’ on devolving powers to counties 01 Apr 2025 - Half of people in care at home have ‘unmet needs’ 01 Apr 2025 - Education needs a revolution, not just more cash 01 Apr 2025 - Fire brigade ‘faces huge legal costs’ over Grenfell Tower disaster 01 Apr 2025 - State pension age rise brought forward 01 Apr 2025 - County Councillors vote themselves massive pay rises 01 Apr 2025 - Pay row threatens overnight care for vulnerable 01 Apr 2025 - Social care will ‘implode in months’ as charities face back-pay demand 01 Apr 2025 - Review of Senior Civil Service pay not possible within ‘straitjacket’ of 1% pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Justine Greening raids free schools budget for £1.3bn education bailout 01 Apr 2025 - Roll-out of 100% business rates retention to LG by 2019-20 ‘unrealistic’ 01 Apr 2025 - Betts re-elected as chair of CLG committee 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May declares war on Nimbys and pledges to build 300,000 homes despite risk of rebellion among Tory councillors 01 Apr 2025 - Government welfare cuts blamed for 50% surge in mental health issues among unemployed 01 Apr 2025 - The six challenges facing local councils over next 20 years 01 Apr 2025 - UK public finances face twin threat from Brexit and downturn, says OBR 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit could cost UK Treasury tens of billions in lost tax revenue, says Office for Budget Responsibility 01 Apr 2025 - Councils slam Whitehall’s ‘short-term approach’ to public health cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers seen as 'wallets on wheels' as councils hike parking charges 01 Apr 2025 - Margaret Willcox: ‘Relations with the NHS are tense. But we will rise above it’ 01 Apr 2025 - Software hold-up leaves businesses waiting in vain for rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - Free schools plan under threat 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers' pay to remain capped at 1 per cent, DfE announces 01 Apr 2025 - Councils invest billions in property purchases 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid's speech to the LGA conference 2017 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for Javid to sort out ‘shambolic delay’ of business rates relief fund 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs withdraw support for Better Care Funding guidance 01 Apr 2025 - Lord Porter: ‘We don’t want any new duties’ for business rates retention 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors may have limited control over combined authorities, warn auditors 01 Apr 2025 - Public procurement reform could boost local economies by £14bn, says report 01 Apr 2025 - 1.2 million people in England and Wales will have dementia by 2040 – study 01 Apr 2025 - Greening calls for 'army of skilled young people' 01 Apr 2025 - Firefighters’ deal means public pay cap is ‘dead in the water’ Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/firefighters-deal-means-public-pay-cap-dead-water/ 01 Apr 2025 - Lord Porter: Councils to lose 75p of every £1 of Whitehall cash by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Tories drop plan to end universal free lunches for infants 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond says UK must 'hold nerve' over public pay 01 Apr 2025 - Heads push MPs for answers on school funding 01 Apr 2025 - Damning government report shows depth of public sector pay cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of £5.8bn 'funding gap' by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Schools in England cut back on teaching hours to save money 01 Apr 2025 - Social care crisis could be fixed with prefunding arrangement, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - DfT reveals £6.1bn programme to improve major roads 01 Apr 2025 - Council to sell homes on the open market 01 Apr 2025 - Councils threatened with ‘non-incentives’ to move health integration forward 01 Apr 2025 - Leaders pile more pressure on May for urgent social care reform 01 Apr 2025 - Councils save over £600m by sharing services 01 Apr 2025 - Parents face £60 fines when children are late for school 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: Education Secretary wants £1.2bn extra on schools after 'election austerity backlash' 01 Apr 2025 - Top Tories in revolt against May over public spending 01 Apr 2025 - Boris Johnson joins calls to end public sector pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Nurseries warn it's 'crunch time' for free childcare funding 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority funding: more ‘graphs of doom’ ahead? 01 Apr 2025 - LGA changes tack on business rates retention 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech clears Commons after abortion funding pledge 01 Apr 2025 - It will cost taxpayers £2.5m - or 28 fully trained firefighters - for Martin Surl to take control of Gloucestershire Fire Service, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Confusion after No 10 backtracks on end to public sector pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Labour plot to tempt Tory MPs into amending Queen's Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cuts to continue in spite of £1bn boost, English councils say 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech: Labour to force vote on public pay cap 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives agree pact with DUP to support May government 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor's £300m business rates relief fund still not up and running 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate information letter published following Spring Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Queen’s Speech ‘dragged councils into Whitehall uncertainty’ as key laws dropped 01 Apr 2025 - Gloucester City considers co-locating with county council 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses and rates relief 01 Apr 2025 - Stop putting league tables above pupils' rounded education, Ofsted chief tells schools 01 Apr 2025 - Single parents win benefits cap legal challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Tory manifesto pledges dropped from Queen’s Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Plan for more grammar schools abandoned 01 Apr 2025 - Heads warn parents of 'cash-starved schools' 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives shoot for the moon with new laws for Queen's Speech 01 Apr 2025 - Mark Carney says time not right for interest rate rise 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May will abandon free school lunch axe 01 Apr 2025 - Record inflation level prompts concern for treasury returns 01 Apr 2025 - Health and social care devolution deal agreed in Surrey 01 Apr 2025 - ONS scraps pre-release access for ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond hints at end to council spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid keeps local government role 01 Apr 2025 - Unions call for 5% pay increase for council staff 01 Apr 2025 - Government to confirm two-year Parliament to deliver Brexit and beyond 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: 2018 Queen's Speech cancelled by government 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech to take place next week 01 Apr 2025 - Queen's Speech: Government 'has enough support' after talks with DUP 01 Apr 2025 - Austerity is over, May tells Tories 01 Apr 2025 - Harris Federation academy chief says Theresa May’s grammar school plans are the wrong approach 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet reshuffle: Theresa May praises Tory 'talent' 01 Apr 2025 - Private schools to save £522m in tax thanks to charitable status 01 Apr 2025 - Hung Parliament: Q&A guide to what happens when no-one wins the election 01 Apr 2025 - British workers hit ‘hardest’ by immigration cuts, research reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Interest rate rise could ruin 80,000 businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Refuse collection workers threaten strikes in Birmingham 01 Apr 2025 - British workers hit ‘hardest’ by immigration cuts, research reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Civil servants 'dissatisfied' with pay 01 Apr 2025 - A million more carers needed to cope with ageing population 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Corbyn struggles over cost of childcare policy 01 Apr 2025 - Small firms hit by rates relief delay 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of Tories' free breakfasts 'could treble' 01 Apr 2025 - UK growth estimate revised down 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives not allocated enough cash for free school breakfast pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ ‘variable’ approach to deferred payment ‘could undermine social care reform’ 01 Apr 2025 - Assaults between care home residents reported daily 01 Apr 2025 - Police investigate up to 20 deaths at mental health unit 01 Apr 2025 - General election: Theresa May changes social care plans 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2017: New warning over social care plans 01 Apr 2025 - What do the General Election manifestos mean for local government? 01 Apr 2025 - Conservative manifesto summary: Key points at-a-glance 01 Apr 2025 - Conservative manifesto: Social care shake-up in Theresa May's plans 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges to increase local government funding 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate rises to 2.7% in April 01 Apr 2025 - Unions urge politicians to address £3bn education ‘funding crisis’ 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes losing 2,000 beds a year as councils cut fees 01 Apr 2025 - New mayors urged to prioritise inclusive growth 01 Apr 2025 - Inter-authority lending rockets by £2bn 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services face £2bn funding gap by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Funding shortfall 'threatens support for vulnerable children' 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2017: Labour and Lib Dems pledge school cash 01 Apr 2025 - After divisive 15% council tax rise plans, Surrey underspends by £7m 01 Apr 2025 - Universal basic income ‘offers public finance efficiency gains’ 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of staff to be axed from classrooms because of cash crisis - with more cuts to come 01 Apr 2025 - Care staff 'may not get minimum wage' leaked report claims 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could raise enough money to reverse social care cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Magnificent Sevenoaks 01 Apr 2025 - Britons ready to pay more council tax to fund social care 01 Apr 2025 - 7 out of 10 children with mental health problems are treated outside home area 01 Apr 2025 - LGA publishes 10-point general election wish list 01 Apr 2025 - General election 2017: Conservatives pledge to end mental health 'injustice' 01 Apr 2025 - Core Cities: Government must make devolution ‘more than a soundbite’ 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May faces first uprising of election as Tories urge PM to abandon school funding shake-up 01 Apr 2025 - Fly-tipping epidemic costs taxpayers £600 million a year 01 Apr 2025 - GDP figures: The accidental rebalancing of the UK economy 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Corbyn vows to block £3bn of Tory 'tax breaks for the rich' and use cash for new police 01 Apr 2025 - PAC: Government spending ‘over the odds’ on creating free schools 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts are 'dismantling' neighbourhood services, warns report 01 Apr 2025 - Schools cutting mental health services to plug funding gaps, warn MPs 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grew by 0.3% as service sector slows 01 Apr 2025 - School cutbacks put 'education system at risk' 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers lose pollution strategy delay bid 01 Apr 2025 - Better Care Fund failed to ease care crisis and was 'little more than a ruse' 01 Apr 2025 - Government accounts 'failing to explain spending' 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham school makes day 30 minutes shorter because of education funding cuts 01 Apr 2025 - MPs question government's 'grip' on new school places 01 Apr 2025 - Tory manifesto will attempt to address social care crisis, Theresa May hints 01 Apr 2025 - Metro mayors sound great. But they can’t save local parks and pools 01 Apr 2025 - Minister makes U-turn over £300m business rates relief fund 01 Apr 2025 - Snap election delays £300m relief package for small businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Patient waits four years to leave hospital 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May should drop the state pension ‘triple lock’ 01 Apr 2025 - Schools locked into expensive contracts may find their only option is to cut staff 01 Apr 2025 - Private parking firms pursue one million more motorists 01 Apr 2025 - Public services pressures the next government can’t ignore 01 Apr 2025 - Del Boy council scheme to sell bottled park water 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of children miss out on first choice of primary school 01 Apr 2025 - Housing problems causing mental illness, says charity 01 Apr 2025 - General election: MPs ready to approve snap poll on 8 June 01 Apr 2025 - May to seek snap election for 8 June 01 Apr 2025 - Revolution in council lending could tackle irresponsible borrowing 01 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of children's playgrounds in England close due to cuts 01 Apr 2025 - What we need is a national social care service 01 Apr 2025 - Parents facing fines over term-time holidays considering class action against councils who misled them, law firm reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Next wave of free schools approved 01 Apr 2025 - Essex council taken to court over care home fee rates 01 Apr 2025 - Anger as 539 council bosses paid more than PM Theresa May 01 Apr 2025 - UK house price growth 'picking up' 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers' union urges limits on pay of academy bosses 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate remains at 2.3% 01 Apr 2025 - Social care system 'beginning to collapse' as 900 carers quit every day 01 Apr 2025 - Half of councils yet to publish a Local Plan warns report 01 Apr 2025 - Councils invited to bid for share of £490m road investment fund 01 Apr 2025 - Speed bumps could disappear from UK roads as part of new plan to cut pollution 01 Apr 2025 - Raise tax on Chelsea tractors and luxury gas-guzzling supercars to pay for diesel scrappage scheme, says MP 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges £10 minimum wage 01 Apr 2025 - School budget squeeze 'is reducing pupils' subject choice' 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords earn millions in benefits for micro‑flats 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG to consult councils on spending model for Troubled Families scheme 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will impose VAT on private school fees to pay for free school meals 01 Apr 2025 - New Enterprise Zones ‘go live’ 01 Apr 2025 - Derby school support staff vote for council pay offer 01 Apr 2025 - Two million workers receive 4% pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - One in 10 councils slash funding for social care, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA: Brexit has potential to spark radical reform in public services 01 Apr 2025 - Schools to receive £2.4bn cash injection 01 Apr 2025 - School funding cuts to hit poorer areas harder, says Labour 01 Apr 2025 - William Eichler 30 March 2017 Whitehall must not use Brexit as an excuse to centralise power, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Watchdog says government lacks proof business rates retention will boost economic growth 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly half UK care home workers leave within a year, finds report 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: Councils should use business rates retention to prop up struggling services 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey to quit LGA and CCN 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate retention plans could come up short, auditors warn 01 Apr 2025 - Potholes 'the talk of the canteen' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face business rates cash crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit risks sidelining grammar schools, says Nicky Morgan 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Communities provide the best solutions to their own problems’ 01 Apr 2025 - Cash cuts 'threaten school standards', say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Communities should have say in future of local pubs, Labour says 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces £32m for estate regeneration 01 Apr 2025 - The 22 local authorities freezing council tax – see if yours makes the list 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'face funding gap' to fix roads 01 Apr 2025 - Kent’s 'super council' plans put on hold 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax bills to rise in nine out of 10 English local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey leader to quit LGA role 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for full control on how to spend social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Higher fuel prices take toll on retail sales 01 Apr 2025 - Bed delay transfer figures reveal areas worst affected 01 Apr 2025 - Drop in teacher training recruits revealed 01 Apr 2025 - School governors point to 'diabolical' budget squeeze 01 Apr 2025 - A third of upper-tier councils facing ‘severe financial challenges’ 01 Apr 2025 - Inter-authority lending rockets by £1bn 01 Apr 2025 - Commercialisation drives review of Prudential Code 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates relief secure after NICs u-turn 01 Apr 2025 - UK inflation rate leaps to 2.3% 01 Apr 2025 - Looming countryside health crisis as stoic elderly 'won't make a fuss' 01 Apr 2025 - MPs slam funding crisis and 'postcode lottery' of children's services 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector workers earn more than their private sector peers, analysis reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Councils paying staff £15m for trade union time 01 Apr 2025 - 'Lack of money' prompts care firms to end council contracts 01 Apr 2025 - School transport cuts causing 'distress and upheaval' 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems call for 1p income tax rise to provide NHS funding boost 01 Apr 2025 - Is robotics a solution to the growing needs of the elderly? 01 Apr 2025 - Every secondary school faces losing six teachers - report 01 Apr 2025 - Activists to challenge council pension boycott restrictions in High Court 01 Apr 2025 - School funding cuts 'will leave councils unable to meet legal obligations' 01 Apr 2025 - Tory councils warn on school funding 01 Apr 2025 - 'Transport deserts' as hundreds of bus routes are scrapped because of Government cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Second major 2015 Tory manifesto pledge dropped in a week 01 Apr 2025 - Extra social care funding welcome, but ‘bare minimum’ to shore up system 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2017: What it means for motorists - £800 million boost in fight against congestion 01 Apr 2025 - Budget is out of touch, says Jeremy Corbyn 01 Apr 2025 - Budget National Insurance rises 'make system fairer' 01 Apr 2025 - Leaked tape reveals Surrey's council tax government 'deal' 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2017: Hammond's 'upbeat' message over Brexit future 01 Apr 2025 - Rethink rates now or face retail disaster, shops tell chancellor 01 Apr 2025 - Dubs amendment: Tory backing for council refugee audit 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar schools: Budget to include funds for new free schools 01 Apr 2025 - Councils spend £2m a day on temporary accommodation say town hall chiefs 01 Apr 2025 - Vocational training shake-up 'most ambitious since A-levels' 01 Apr 2025 - Spring Budget will not be a 'show fest' 01 Apr 2025 - NHS denied budget windfall as Hammond saves for Brexit fund 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor plans tax rise to fund budget giveaways 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2017: No 'spending sprees', Hammond warns 01 Apr 2025 - Tory spending pledges on police, education and childcare 'at risk' 01 Apr 2025 - Social care crisis: Councils to get more cash amid possible backbench revolt 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates: Sajid Javid considers rates discount plan 01 Apr 2025 - Funding plan will hit poor pupils hardest - campaigners 01 Apr 2025 - One in ten councils to cut comms teams this year 01 Apr 2025 - Nearly 150,000 care and health jobs at risk due to Brexit says TUC 01 Apr 2025 - MPs cast doubt on benefits of multi-academy trust expansion for schools 01 Apr 2025 - Rural areas lose in ‘unfair’ funding of elderly care 01 Apr 2025 - Families 'struggle to get first-place secondary school' 01 Apr 2025 - Council to save £94m after axing high interest loans 01 Apr 2025 - The challenges for innovative procurement 01 Apr 2025 - State pension age 'could rise above lifespan' in poorer areas, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Let councils run academy chains, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Death taxes’ on inheritance could pay for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Sugary drinks levy will earn schools £415m 01 Apr 2025 - Government looks for new spending cuts of up to 6% 01 Apr 2025 - Local government: ever the bridesmaid 01 Apr 2025 - Easing impact of revaluation could undermine business rates devolution 01 Apr 2025 - 10 charts that show what’s gone wrong with social care 01 Apr 2025 - My Shop: How business rates are hitting home 01 Apr 2025 - Communities secretary to ‘rethink’ business rates revaluation 01 Apr 2025 - Taxes should be spent on improving school buildings not opening free schools, MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Social mobility: Poorer children 'making less progress' 01 Apr 2025 - Colleges seek academy status for the tax breaks 01 Apr 2025 - Older teenagers face biggest funding cuts, says think tank 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates a 'ticking time bomb' for small firms 01 Apr 2025 - 'NHS cuts have gone too far...and the revamp of business rates must go ahead': Lord Kerslake has some blunt warnings for the Government 01 Apr 2025 - Cash boost to ease crisis in social care 01 Apr 2025 - Parish council tax bills rise despite squeeze 01 Apr 2025 - Councils going bankrupt? Don’t be Scilly! 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts deeper than Thatcher ever tried 01 Apr 2025 - Successful business rate appeals falling, new figures show 01 Apr 2025 - South West gets £191m cash boost 01 Apr 2025 - Services failing children with complex needs as national data ‘not fit for purpose’ 01 Apr 2025 - Liverpool council to axe 300 jobs to plug £90m funding gap 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid: Budget help for firms hit by rates rise 01 Apr 2025 - School funding changes 'risk injustice' 01 Apr 2025 - PMQs: Theresa May suggests more business rate help 01 Apr 2025 - Tory cuts slice £1bn off real spending on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Government spending billions on free schools while existing schools crumble 01 Apr 2025 - Disabled children in England 'finding it increasingly hard to access council care' 01 Apr 2025 - British roads are worse than Oman’s 01 Apr 2025 - Government finances record £9.4bn surplus in January 01 Apr 2025 - Councils hit out at lack of new money in final settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Minister under fire from own MPs over business rates 'misinformation' 01 Apr 2025 - Academic selection: Policy group criticises 'negative impact' 01 Apr 2025 - Outrage from employers’ groups at ‘illegal’ changes to business rate appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates blow to be 'softened' in the Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Teacher shortage getting worse, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Council taxes set to rise by almost 5% across the country to pay for more social care but other services will still be cut 01 Apr 2025 - Council funding freeze 'means cuts to many essential services' 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond 'listening' to business rates concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Javid stands firm on business rate change 01 Apr 2025 - Upcoming council tax rises not enough to stem social care crisis, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: Proper needs assessment must underpin 100% business rates retention 01 Apr 2025 - One in four UK families have less than £95 in savings, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - Small shops recoil in the face of business rates that will more than double 01 Apr 2025 - More than half UK investment in transport is in London, says study 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority announces proposed council tax cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax to rise while services cut, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cuts linked to 30,000 excess deaths 01 Apr 2025 - Senior Tory urges Philip Hammond to protect businesses from 'looming nightmare' of rate rises 01 Apr 2025 - School budget cuts will ‘damage’ UK economy, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Social care system at risk of collapse warns report 01 Apr 2025 - Kerslake: Devolving Treasury powers from Whitehall vital for UK 01 Apr 2025 - Rising business rates close four pubs a day 01 Apr 2025 - 'Council tax bombshell' will see rates rocket 25% in the next three years 01 Apr 2025 - NHS to be hit by crippling business rates rise, analysis finds 01 Apr 2025 - Tax cut for Amazon as high street shops suffer 01 Apr 2025 - Councils banned from 'unnecessary' boycotts 01 Apr 2025 - Grammars 'unnecessary distraction', say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Pubs and restaurants want more relief over business rates 01 Apr 2025 - High street revolt over rates rise 01 Apr 2025 - One in four care homes rated 'bad' or 'poor' by residents and their families 01 Apr 2025 - Parents on zero-hour contracts 'could miss out on free childcare' 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities face ‘collapse of vital services’ due to underfunding 01 Apr 2025 - Standardised housing need measure to decide infrastructure spend 01 Apr 2025 - IR35: Off Payroll working in the public sector 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey’s cancelled referendum: good for Surrey, no change for everyone else 01 Apr 2025 - Call to end ban on council-run schools sponsoring academies 01 Apr 2025 - Our budget next year isn’t enough, say most councils 01 Apr 2025 - Unqualified librarians and support staff asked to give lessons amid teacher shortage 01 Apr 2025 - NHS Health Check: Hunt says NHS problems 'unacceptable' 01 Apr 2025 - Customer satisfaction in local public services increases 01 Apr 2025 - All councils need more cash [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - 'New grammars by 2020' reveal heads after meeting ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Corbyn accuses Tories of ‘sweetheart deal’ with council 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Corbyn alleges Surrey 'sweetheart deal' on tax 01 Apr 2025 - ‘The government must unlock the money. Because the care crisis is now’ 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey council abandons plan to raise council tax by 15% 01 Apr 2025 - Free nursery places subsidising the rich, report says 01 Apr 2025 - Robots 'could replace 250,000 public sector workers' 01 Apr 2025 - Millions face 5% council tax rise as a third of authorities plan to raise bills by the maximum amount - three times higher than inflation 01 Apr 2025 - The Northern Powerhouse is going up a gear. Let’s all back this plan to make the north great 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should be forced to fix potholes immediately, Court of Appeal rules 01 Apr 2025 - Schools have no funds to train teachers, says study 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey is an example of why councils need fiscal freedoms 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries minister promises to act if councils cannot justify cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey Council tax rise of 15% approved before public vote 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset councils agree to proceed with unitary reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities fear legal action due to care funding shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Half of academies fall short on funding 01 Apr 2025 - Petition demands government abandon tax rule targeting interims 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeship targets 'poor value for money', says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Councils may cut social care provision due to underfunding, LGA says 01 Apr 2025 - Parents responsible for care of their elderly mothers and fathers as much as their own children, minister says 01 Apr 2025 - Supporting local government 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall’s industrial strategy must be ‘locally led’, think tank says 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless spikes installed to stop people sleeping rough in city centre 01 Apr 2025 - Term-time holiday fines are under review in some areas 01 Apr 2025 - Robots could help solve social care crisis, say academics 01 Apr 2025 - Councils warn of £5.8 billion black hole without more social care cash from Government 01 Apr 2025 - The Guardian view on local government: put up or shut up [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Homelessness reduction bill: a small step in the right direction 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows by 0.6% in fourth quarter 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury takes back £384m school funding 01 Apr 2025 - Another county looking for savings in new unitary council proposal 01 Apr 2025 - Surrey's referendum will deliver a verdict on ministers' approach to social care 01 Apr 2025 - Public service delivery should be ‘local by default’, argues community group 01 Apr 2025 - Number of rough sleepers rises at an 'appalling rate' says charity 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes rely on ‘hidden tax’ of £1.3bn to stay open 01 Apr 2025 - One in 10 nursery schools in England face closure within months 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar schools 'may ask parents for hundreds of pounds a year' 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing falls in December 01 Apr 2025 - GOV: Building our Industrial Strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for ‘greater freedom and funding’ to deliver industrial strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution risks being ‘undermined’ if Whitehall tries to performance-manage mayors 01 Apr 2025 - NHS bosses want to force patients into care homes 01 Apr 2025 - It’s a crisis indeed when the social care rebels are Tories [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Town hall leaders want more devolution as Theresa May launches industrial strategy 01 Apr 2025 - Punitive business rates threaten rural way of life 01 Apr 2025 - School budgets near breaking point, say head teachers 01 Apr 2025 - Rule changes pose major threat to investment and lending plans 01 Apr 2025 - Grammar schools lose top spots after league table shakeup 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare plan faces places pinch, warns lobby group 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Hunt's council to hold referendum on 15% council tax rise to fund social care 01 Apr 2025 - The Government has dropped its one million new homes target, report claims 01 Apr 2025 - Stretched NHS and social care 'needs more money pumped in to ease pressure' 01 Apr 2025 - NHS will need £88bn extra by 2067, says OBR forecast 01 Apr 2025 - Councils get £48m to expand homelessness provision 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May has handed the NHS crisis to the regions - here's why that should worry us all [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Build houses in same way as cars to tackle shortage’ 01 Apr 2025 - Roads funding information pack 01 Apr 2025 - DfT announces £1.2bn for local authority roads in 2017/18 01 Apr 2025 - London health devolution MoU due imminently 01 Apr 2025 - Fattened precept will still ‘do nothing’ to address London social care gap 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses unhappy with support from local councils, survey shows 01 Apr 2025 - NHS bed-blocking rises 42% in a year, new figures show 01 Apr 2025 - First-time home buyers at highest level since 2007, Halifax says 01 Apr 2025 - NAO investigates business rates retention plan 01 Apr 2025 - Northants s151 hits back at Daventry’s call for government intervention 01 Apr 2025 - NHS England chief contradicts May over spending 01 Apr 2025 - New money for affordable homes released 01 Apr 2025 - Westminster exports its homeless locals 01 Apr 2025 - NHS hospitals in England face £322m tax bill increase from April 01 Apr 2025 - Top doctors tell Health Secretary to tackle A&E crisis as 18,000 patients are left stranded on trolleys in ONE week 01 Apr 2025 - One in five councils still using ‘unsafe flying care visits’ 01 Apr 2025 - One blunt heckler has revealed just how much the UK economy is failing us [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted chief criticises plan for grammars 01 Apr 2025 - Look beyond Whitehall to solve our huge social problems 01 Apr 2025 - Will we see more staff freezes to meet the financial challenge? 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could face £14bn pothole repair bill by 2019 01 Apr 2025 - Councils oppose tax increases to fund elderly care 01 Apr 2025 - Government opens applications for £7bn affordable homes fund 01 Apr 2025 - LGA calls for small council-maintained schools to be exempt from apprenticeship levy 01 Apr 2025 - What does 2017 hold for public services? 01 Apr 2025 - Goodbye 2016, and a not so warm welcome to 2017 (Comment) 01 Apr 2025 - Daventry calls for government to rescue Northants finances 01 Apr 2025 - Blocked beds blight mental health care 01 Apr 2025 - Schools to be pushed to breaking point by levy, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - MPs urge ‘swift’ review on social care 01 Apr 2025 - UK's £1bn foreign aid cashpoint

2016

01 Apr 2025 - Social care crisis needs a Japanese solution 01 Apr 2025 - 97% of councils in England tell ITV News council tax hikes will have no impact on social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Depth of housing crisis revealed as 35,000 people sit on waiting lists for 10 years 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG publish latest Business Rates Information letter 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls pay £12m to repair cars damaged by potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Bed blocking costs NHS £455MILLION a year as delayed discharges more than double 01 Apr 2025 - Government's 'paltry' concession on business rates revealed 01 Apr 2025 - .Third of councils face social care funding cut after 'misleading' government changes, Andy Burnham says 01 Apr 2025 - Double-digit council tax increases planned to fund growing social-care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Education grant cuts would put school improvements at risk, councils warn 01 Apr 2025 - Business leaders warn of North-South divide as Government tax review reveals sweeping changes 01 Apr 2025 - Experts say the Government must refund £1BN after overcharging on business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Council to pay damages for keeping children in care ‘too long’ 01 Apr 2025 - CBI calls for barrier-free trade with EU after Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - The rise of Generation Rent: number of young homeowners halved in the last 20 years 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing falls less than expected in November 01 Apr 2025 - No early Christmas presents [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - High Court backs North Yorkshire CC over fracking decision 01 Apr 2025 - Public library loans show dramatic fall in last two years 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over ‘opaque’ regional funds 01 Apr 2025 - Social care’s moral majority is a losing one [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - ​John McDonnell says emergency funds could solve social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Corbyn calls for talks with PM on social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - New homes funding diverted to pay for social care 01 Apr 2025 - Councils angry at government's social care offer 01 Apr 2025 - Social care levy is 'Theresa May's poor tax', says council boss 01 Apr 2025 - NHS chief: bus passes and pensions must be up for discussion to tackle social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Social care: Ministers to set out funding plans 01 Apr 2025 - PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May social care 'crisis' clash 01 Apr 2025 - Why council tax hike for care raises peanuts 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers have failed to explain where schools will find savings, watchdog says 01 Apr 2025 - May plans social care shakeup to ease pressure on councils 01 Apr 2025 - Labour says it will end rough sleeping 01 Apr 2025 - Schools face cuts of £3bn, says watchdog 01 Apr 2025 - NAO slams CCS for ‘severely’ underestimating joint buying difficulties 01 Apr 2025 - Library closures 'will double unless immediate action is taken' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils offered huge ‘bribes’ to build homes on green belt 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham council chief: years of cuts could have catastrophic consequences 01 Apr 2025 - Planning department cuts make housing targets impossible, LGiU finds 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers considering council tax precept rise to save adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers consider council tax rise to cover social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for reversal of cut to education services grant 01 Apr 2025 - Councils defend record on mental health funding 01 Apr 2025 - The economy after Brexit: encouragingly resilient or still a case of ‘wait and see’? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Contraceptive cuts: Warning over rise in abortions 01 Apr 2025 - UK's current GDP growth rate won't last, warns business body 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers consider council tax rise to cover social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - Library funding falls by another £25m, CIPFA finds 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Devastating’ lack of social care causing problems for the disabled 01 Apr 2025 - Transport boost as councils collect record £750m surplus from parking charges 01 Apr 2025 - Councils urged to bid for estate regeneration funding 01 Apr 2025 - Local authorities 'spend close to nothing on mental health' 01 Apr 2025 - Dorset residents support plans to reduce council numbers 01 Apr 2025 - Landlords charging renters extra fees for new mandatory passport checks 01 Apr 2025 - UK library budgets fall by £25m in a year 01 Apr 2025 - Increasing risk CQC will have to notify councils of failing care providers 01 Apr 2025 - Newcastle unveils management shake-up to save £500,000 01 Apr 2025 - Children’s services at ‘tipping point’ as austerity agenda continues 01 Apr 2025 - Home care crisis as more private companies quit: The elderly are being put at risk as firms abandon services, watchdog warns 01 Apr 2025 - The right to choose your own care is the latest casualty of council cuts [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - New manifesto for social care is essential – service users should write it 01 Apr 2025 - Chris Grayling to unveil plans for new fully privatised railway line 01 Apr 2025 - UK infrastructure pipeline grows to £500bn 01 Apr 2025 - Homeless people being denied mental health services 01 Apr 2025 - Teachers welcome £140m school improvement fund, but demand more details 01 Apr 2025 - Councils back new vision for library services 01 Apr 2025 - Female dementia sufferers get worse medical treatment than men 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of social care has rocketed over last year, analysis shows 01 Apr 2025 - Sugar tax could mean rise in general taxation, pressure group claims 01 Apr 2025 - UK congestion worst in Europe and set to cost £62bn 01 Apr 2025 - If austerity is over, why can’t Britain afford proper social care? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries receive £4m fund as part of strategy to help secure their future 01 Apr 2025 - A new Oxford to Cambridge Expressway could cost up to £3.5bn, it has emerged. 01 Apr 2025 - More than 250,000 are homeless in England - Shelter 01 Apr 2025 - Tens of thousands of elderly hit by ‘out-of-the-blue’ care home bills 01 Apr 2025 - What if the NHS had to balance its books like local government? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Council abandons plans to cut staff pay 01 Apr 2025 - Care homes are denied extra cash even after council tax hike: town halls accused of fuelling social care crisis by refusing to pass money on 01 Apr 2025 - The Government has announced £175m ‘to improve the 50 most dangerous roads in the country’. 01 Apr 2025 - Councils say infrastructure costs are greatest barrier to inward investment 01 Apr 2025 - Economic forecasts are not 'lunatic' 01 Apr 2025 - We need a New Deal for social care [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Minimum wage hike 'could be a disaster for care homes' 01 Apr 2025 - State pension to rise by 2.5% in April 2017 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond facing growing Tory rebellion over social care crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could face new duty to prevent homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - National Living Wage: OECD urges caution over increase 01 Apr 2025 - Social care cash shortfall 'devastating', ministers warned 01 Apr 2025 - Over half of councils targeting debtors’ homes to recover unpaid tax 01 Apr 2025 - Local government 'worried' about what wasn't in Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: 'Mistake' not to invest in social care, ex-minister says 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Row as care funding omitted from measures 01 Apr 2025 - What was missing from the Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Hammond knows Britain’s regional imbalance is risky. Why didn’t he fix it? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond uses Autumn Statement to steel UK for £122bn budget black hole and post-Brexit gloom 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution takes a £1.8bn step forward 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pours scorn over autumn statement for ignoring sick and old 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement 2016 summary: Key points at-a-glance 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Government defends post-Brexit vote economy forecasts 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Birmingham launches plan to create 250,000 jobs by 2030 01 Apr 2025 - The social care system needs a rescue package – to help the NHS survive 01 Apr 2025 - Lambeth lays out £46.5m savings plan to meet ‘unprecedented’ budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Norfolk and Suffolk devolution deal latest to be withdrawn 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement to include wages and house building announcements 01 Apr 2025 - Friends of the Earth warn of flood funding 'betrayal' 01 Apr 2025 - Boost for Hammond as public finances in better shape than expected 01 Apr 2025 - Council voices 'deep concerns' over roll-out of Universal Credit 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: Philip Hammond's political challenge 01 Apr 2025 - Government borrowing falls on record October tax take 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May will say her hands are tied this week. Don’t be bamboozled [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Four out of five councils not meeting older people’s care needs 01 Apr 2025 - Campaigners welcome Autumn Statement road fund, but urge ‘fix it first’ approach 01 Apr 2025 - 'Pay to stay' social housing plan dropped 01 Apr 2025 - Large-scale city-region investment vital to stop graduate ‘brain drain’ 01 Apr 2025 - May hints at transition deal on Brexit to avoid 'cliff edge' for business 01 Apr 2025 - Conservative councils reluctant to grant planning permission 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates reforms ‘wildly unfair’ on small businesses 01 Apr 2025 - Cities suffer ‘brain drain’ as graduates move to London 01 Apr 2025 - Report sets out case for more independent local government 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG accused of ‘alarming’ lack of understanding of council pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Britain sleepwalking into care crisis, Ros Altmann warns 01 Apr 2025 - Autumn Statement: UK economy must be watertight, says Hammond 01 Apr 2025 - Up to a third of homeless young people turned away when they seek help from their local council, research reveals 01 Apr 2025 - Calls to legalise cannabis to boost tax income and save millions 01 Apr 2025 - Local government reorganisation: the financial case for maintaining county boundaries 01 Apr 2025 - Spending by English local authorities on highways and transport fell by 4.6% in 2015/16, new Government statistics have confirmed. 01 Apr 2025 - Government ‘complacent’ over risks posed by council moves into commercial activity 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Philip Hammond 'still aspires for surplus' 01 Apr 2025 - No wonder social care is failing our sick and elderly, if this is how it treats its workers 01 Apr 2025 - Bus operators are dismayed that the Welsh Government will make another real-terms cut to bus funding next year while earmarking £300,000 for a controversial rural rail project study. 01 Apr 2025 - Unison urges government to spend business rates windfall on social care 01 Apr 2025 - UK councils: Post-Brexit must emphasise local powers, not national identity 01 Apr 2025 - 'Picking up the pieces' from social problems costs billions 01 Apr 2025 - Unison: business rates windfall should be spent on social care 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit should bring devolution of more powers, council leaders say 01 Apr 2025 - Counties cry 'foul' after minister links growth fund to metro mayors 01 Apr 2025 - Better transport in county council areas 01 Apr 2025 - Municipals call for chancellor to ease ‘disproportionate’ council cuts 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Desperate’ Liverpool considering referendum on 10% council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - Up to £15bn to be spent on 'future-proofing' economy against Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for concessionary fares funding after 12% bus service cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Bath and North East Somerset awards £700m integrated care contract to Virgin 01 Apr 2025 - Give councils financial incentive to merge says report 01 Apr 2025 - Tories join NHS chiefs in call for increased social care funding 01 Apr 2025 - The Guardian view on social care: higher taxes or worse services 01 Apr 2025 - Workers 'cutting hours' because of childcare costs 01 Apr 2025 - Minister unveils £18m housing boost 01 Apr 2025 - A day in the life of local government – share your pictures 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeships 'must address distinct needs of teens' 01 Apr 2025 - Solace boss: Devolution feels more like ‘de-centralised administration’ 01 Apr 2025 - £1bn fund for community ownership needed to save public assets – Locality 01 Apr 2025 - UK public finances to be '£25bn worse off' by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Lower benefits cap comes into force 01 Apr 2025 - Local government reorganisation: switch to unitaries ‘could save £2.9bn’ 01 Apr 2025 - Funding of £20m to support domestic abuse victims 01 Apr 2025 - School grant cuts to leave counties with ‘virtually non-existent’ improvement budgets 01 Apr 2025 - End of education grants ‘academisation by back door’ 01 Apr 2025 - Abolish 20 taxes and set 15% flat rate of income tax in UK, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Inflation 'set to soar to 4% by late 2017' 01 Apr 2025 - Give councils small share of fuel duty to solve road repair backlog, LGA says 01 Apr 2025 - Any extra Autumn Statement cash must go to social care first, MPs tell chancellor 01 Apr 2025 - Metro mayors should be given ‘radical housing powers’ 01 Apr 2025 - New wave of prefabs to tackle housing crisis 01 Apr 2025 - North faces housing crisis unless powers are devolved, says thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries that fail to serve communities ‘need to close’, digital charity says 01 Apr 2025 - NHS funds need urgent boost, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - Better care integration could stop a quarter of hospital admissions, LGA says 01 Apr 2025 - Education bill scrapped after series of reversals 01 Apr 2025 - UK economy grows 0.5% in three months after Brexit vote 01 Apr 2025 - Counties and mets biggest losers in shift away from local government grant 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond could face £84bn black hole following Brexit vote 01 Apr 2025 - Tory council cuts have hit the poor the hardest - as well as Labour areas 01 Apr 2025 - Councillors must look before they leap into secret NHS cuts plans [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Hotel bills for homeless people run into billions 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'don't pay fair price for care' 01 Apr 2025 - Study says 850,000 UK public sector jobs could be automated by 2030 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'don't pay fair price for care' 01 Apr 2025 - Borrowing outstrips expectations at midpoint of fiscal year 01 Apr 2025 - Buses make people healthier and wealthier, research finds 01 Apr 2025 - Housing: Councils call for freedoms to build new homes 01 Apr 2025 - Flood defences 'skewed towards wealthy families and regions' 01 Apr 2025 - Lincolnshire rejects and ‘kills off’ devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May on heath spending [video] 01 Apr 2025 - Are district councils the key to unlocking hospital bed blocking? [opinion] 01 Apr 2025 - Welsh local government receives first funding increase since 2013 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire CC rejects ‘unsustainable’ four-year settlement 01 Apr 2025 - City Deal reaches £100m milestone 01 Apr 2025 - Government promises £40m to tackle homelessness 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for power to administer soft drinks levy 01 Apr 2025 - London Councils warn of £2bn funding gap by 2020 01 Apr 2025 - Areas of NHS will implode this winter, expert warns 01 Apr 2025 - Swinney: 'Trust' local communities to make own decisions 01 Apr 2025 - Eight in 10 NHS hospitals not safe enough, amid warnings that care crisis is reaching a 'tipping point' 01 Apr 2025 - Heathrow is top business rate payer in England and Wales 01 Apr 2025 - economy and infrastructure 12.10.16 Birmingham backs business rates devolution pilot in West Midlands 01 Apr 2025 - Birmingham to pilot full business rate retention 01 Apr 2025 - Integration alone ‘will not solve challenges of social care’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'face being starved of £2.6bn' as EU funds drain away after Brexit 01 Apr 2025 - Hard Brexit will cost Treasury up to £66bn a year, ministers are told 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Business rates dependence on London ‘difficult square to circle’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils will need ‘significantly more’ flood support than promised this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Councils falling behind on ‘desperately needed’ Care Act reviews 01 Apr 2025 - New shadow devolution minister pledges to 'champion' local government 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts force council to use volunteers to fill in potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care funding explored by Committee 01 Apr 2025 - Guy Ware: The whacky world of business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Lancashire calls for government support as reserves risk running dry 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS faces foreign policy restrictions and intervention powers 01 Apr 2025 - The whacky world of business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Report calls for 'radical new wave of school-building' 01 Apr 2025 - Fracking given UK go-ahead 01 Apr 2025 - 'Major shift' in economy policy planned 01 Apr 2025 - UK fracking ruling due to be announced by government 01 Apr 2025 - IFS: Business rates dependence on London ‘difficult square to circle’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK faces critical shortage of homes to rent, says Rics 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers consider backing new law to prevent people becoming homeless 01 Apr 2025 - Sajid Javid attacks 'nimbyism' as he calls for 1m new homes 01 Apr 2025 - IFS warns councils could be hit with business rate appeals 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Theresa May to trigger Article 50 by end of March 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond: I'll have different approach to Osborne 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne’s flagship Help to Buy scheme to close, Hammond confirms 01 Apr 2025 - What will the rates revaluation mean for UK business? 01 Apr 2025 - Care home residents deprived of liberty in record numbers 01 Apr 2025 - Labour government would ‘guarantee regional development spending’ 01 Apr 2025 - County warns its reserves will be gone in two years 01 Apr 2025 - New funding formula could lead to loss of early years services in London 01 Apr 2025 - Councils facing £320m bill for academisation plan 01 Apr 2025 - Illnesses associated with lifestyle cost the NHS £11bn 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector payoffs capped at £95,000 01 Apr 2025 - Labour pledges to scrap Right To Buy housing sell-off policy in England 01 Apr 2025 - Labour will 'replace post-Brexit EU funding' in UK 01 Apr 2025 - Theresa May’s grammar schools plan based on ‘no evidence’, warns biggest study of existing schools 01 Apr 2025 - Inclusive growth review considers case for prudential borrowing reform 01 Apr 2025 - Four-year settlements for councils could include more grants, says DCLG 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘building up dangerous levels of debt and risk by investing in commercial ventures’ 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit could trigger crisis in care for older and disabled people 01 Apr 2025 - Licencing loophole costing councils millions in unpaid business rates, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Social care funding gap to reach £2.8bn by 2019-20, report finds 01 Apr 2025 - May urged to not repeat Cameron’s “implausible” spending pledges 01 Apr 2025 - Care for elderly 'increasingly rationed' in England 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector employment falls to record low 01 Apr 2025 - Elected mayor ‘not a done deal’, combined authority insists 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should take devolved powers now while they still can 01 Apr 2025 - Voluntary sector ‘must play key devolution role’ 01 Apr 2025 - Javid takes £900m North East devolution deal 'off the table' 01 Apr 2025 - The chancellor has indicated that infrastructure such as roads and railways could be in for a spending boost in his Autumn Statement, with an emphasis on ‘modest, rapidly deliverable investments’. 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond announces Autumn Statement on 23 November 01 Apr 2025 - Counties and districts voice concerns over business rate pilots 01 Apr 2025 - Councils in Wales 'will not merge for a decade' 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers warned not to cut national living wage rises 01 Apr 2025 - North East devolution in doubt as councils reject Government deal 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should be given new powers as part of ‘long-term deal’ on poverty 01 Apr 2025 - Green prescriptions ‘miracle cure’ for obesity, say councils 01 Apr 2025 - A second generation LGPS (Local Government Pension Scheme) 01 Apr 2025 - Places for 20,000 Syrian refugees found among local authorities 01 Apr 2025 - Change bill to protect rural bus services, demand transport campaigners 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts to apprenticeship funding will be 'devastating in deprived areas', Labour MPs say 01 Apr 2025 - Free school meals putting pressure on small school budgets 01 Apr 2025 - Blurring the red and blue 01 Apr 2025 - Figures show ‘dramatic’ cuts in frontline services spending 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA Opinion - Council accounting: a shift from rules to principles 01 Apr 2025 - More Growth Deal funding needed to fill ‘gaps’ in current projects - WYCA 01 Apr 2025 - Calls for more pension advice after study raises concerns over future plans 01 Apr 2025 - Recycling in Wales reaches record high 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA to issue LGPS asset pool governance guide 01 Apr 2025 - Government announces successful bids to £15 million mental health fund 01 Apr 2025 - Councils call for oversight of academy finances after string of abuses 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates consultation causes rancour over valuations 01 Apr 2025 - West Midlands receives multi-millions in devo deal 01 Apr 2025 - Apprenticeship reforms ‘not fit for the 21st century’, warns IPPR 01 Apr 2025 - English fire services pay radically different amounts for equipment 01 Apr 2025 - Local government borrowing increases in response to grant cuts 01 Apr 2025 - ‘Business as usual' amid end of metro mayor rumours 01 Apr 2025 - Budget Blow To Philip Hammond As Public Finances Disappoint 01 Apr 2025 - May to abandon Osborne’s plan for regional mayors 01 Apr 2025 - May to abandon Osborne’s plan for regional mayors 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG and councils should collaborate to avoid service failure, say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - ONS reports £1bn public sector surplus for July 01 Apr 2025 - District buys solar farm for new revenue source 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates ‘bombshell’ could worsen appeals backlog 01 Apr 2025 - Counties warn of funding uncertainty from business rates localisation 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates devolution will fail counties without ‘critical’ redesign, CCN says 01 Apr 2025 - Post-code lottery in care revealed as government publishes dementia 'atlas' of standards across England 01 Apr 2025 - Every pound of EU funding to undergo 'national interest' test to ensure it benefits Britain 01 Apr 2025 - DfE blasted for ‘irresponsible’ apprenticeship levy as further details revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Government guarantee for post-EU funds 01 Apr 2025 - Daily charge for utility firms 'would cut roadwork delays', say councils 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond told to extend UK guarantees on EU grants 01 Apr 2025 - May urged to follow in Scotland’s steps with post-Brexit funding guarantees 01 Apr 2025 - New funding formula for early childcare 01 Apr 2025 - Top think tank calls for regional investment overhaul 01 Apr 2025 - Council approves scheme to create hundreds of jobs 01 Apr 2025 - 360,000 families afflicted by council tax poverty trap 01 Apr 2025 - Corbyn: I would put up taxes to fund public sector pay rises 01 Apr 2025 - Locals may get compensated for new housing 01 Apr 2025 - Outsourcing contracts signed by councils on the rise 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly should sell homes to fund care, says aide to Theresa May 01 Apr 2025 - Chris Buss: How do you solve a problem like £500m? (Opinion) 01 Apr 2025 - Corbyn pledges to 'insource' council services 01 Apr 2025 - UK interest rates cut to 0.25% 01 Apr 2025 - Economic slowdown after Brexit “to lead to jump in borrowing” 01 Apr 2025 - Poverty costs UK billions every year, report reveals 01 Apr 2025 - ..Thousands of regeneration schemes at risk in wake of Brexit vote, LGA warns 01 Apr 2025 - Councils must resume house building role, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire criticises Solent's £900m devolution plans 01 Apr 2025 - LGA company to negotiate auditors' contracts for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Councils awarded £30m for environmentally-friendly buses 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit adding to over-stretch on major projects, NAO head warns 01 Apr 2025 - Philip Hammond prepared to 'reset' George Osborne's economic policy in Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Planning applications for new shops fell 9% in past year 01 Apr 2025 - April-June public borrowing down £2.3bn on last year 01 Apr 2025 - PAC: delayed discharge costing NHS £800m 01 Apr 2025 - Sheffield signs multi-million deal with Chinese company 01 Apr 2025 - New schools funding scheme to be delayed by a year 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor may 'reset' economic policy in Autumn Statement 01 Apr 2025 - Dementia care in crisis over lack of funding from councils 01 Apr 2025 - Government Departments and Ministers 01 Apr 2025 - Javid replaces Clark at DCLG in wide-ranging Cabinet reshuffle 01 Apr 2025 - Councils should expect no ‘mercy’ from May, union says 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises 'fail to stop care cuts' 01 Apr 2025 - Clark signals support for further devolution to London 01 Apr 2025 - Academisation not always best for poorest pupils finds research 01 Apr 2025 - Reform of business rate appeals to be in place next year 01 Apr 2025 - 'Cut business rates – and help us cope with Referendum': key groups send urgent plea to Chancellor from 100,000 UK firms 01 Apr 2025 - Report on free school meals ‘not published’ 01 Apr 2025 - Local government secures seat at EU negotiations 01 Apr 2025 - Councils’ spending hits new low 01 Apr 2025 - Clark hints support for devo deal without mayor 01 Apr 2025 - Councils need ‘assurances’ over billions in EU funding 01 Apr 2025 - Social care precept to net councils £382m 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne 'to abandon 2020 budget surplus target' 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit 'will make NHS staff shortages worse' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to use £1.9bn from reserves to fund services 01 Apr 2025 - We'll only empty your bins every three weeks: Fear of rats and fly-tipping as councils cut collections 01 Apr 2025 - Councils' cash from EU 'should be guaranteed' if withdrawn 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Council leaders call for key role in replacing EU laws 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Local government facing ‘policy vacuum’ 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: Corbyn calls for ‘proper’ council funding after EU vote 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit: David Cameron to quit after UK votes to leave EU 01 Apr 2025 - Pound hits lowest level since 1985 01 Apr 2025 - National Procurement Strategy fails to deliver savings for councils 01 Apr 2025 - Business rates devolution ‘could fail to incentivise growth’ 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: New CIHT president calls Govt's devo approach 'unfair' 01 Apr 2025 - NAO: revenue budgets face ‘fundamental problem’ caused by servicing debt 01 Apr 2025 - Brexit implications for local government 01 Apr 2025 - Think tank sets out new model for business rates reform 01 Apr 2025 - NHS boss says promise of £8bn in extra funding may be far from enough 01 Apr 2025 - Sponsors lose control of 119 failing academies 01 Apr 2025 - Free childcare plans 'in jeopardy' 01 Apr 2025 - The Government has admitted it needs to improve its understanding of the capital resourcing issues facing English councils, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. 01 Apr 2025 - Retail round table meets to discuss business rates 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall must tackle problems with reformed business rates system, warn MPs 01 Apr 2025 - 100 per cent retention of business rates: issues for consideration 01 Apr 2025 - Council smashes record with submission of accounts 01 Apr 2025 - 100 per cent retention of business rates: issues for consideration 01 Apr 2025 - Council smashes record with submission of accounts 01 Apr 2025 - Hampshire councils fall out over 'underperforming' accusations 01 Apr 2025 - Counties call for Better Care Fund to be brought forward 01 Apr 2025 - Exclusive: ADEPT's warnings over business rates devolution 01 Apr 2025 - DfT denies devo bias over sustainable transport funds 01 Apr 2025 - Council leaders accuses Government of 'lack of honesty' over devo deals 01 Apr 2025 - NHS hit by rise in bed-blocking 01 Apr 2025 - MPs criticise government over flood protection plans 01 Apr 2025 - MPs launch inquiry into financial sustainability of adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - More fiscal freedoms would ‘reduce the risk’ in business rates devolution 01 Apr 2025 - Council chiefs fearful of service failures in next three years 01 Apr 2025 - County faces legal challenge over cuts to children's centres 01 Apr 2025 - SEND pupils impacted by council budget cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Losses from rent reductions ‘impossible to calculate’ 01 Apr 2025 - Councils await response after rejecting NHS claims for rates relief running to millions 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘need more funding’ for child refugees care costs 01 Apr 2025 - Care Act failing as councils cut spending, warns disability charity 01 Apr 2025 - Shared services the new normal in local government, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - School funding to fall by 5% in per pupil terms 01 Apr 2025 - North-south school funding gap revealed 01 Apr 2025 - Sport England unveils £250m plan to tackle inactivity 01 Apr 2025 - LGA: Power over buses should be given to all councils 01 Apr 2025 - Council leaders call for urgent reform of business rates appeal system 01 Apr 2025 - England's traffic volumes pass pre-recession peak 01 Apr 2025 - £821m spent on supply teachers last year 01 Apr 2025 - Crisis-hit care homes leave thousands of beds empty 01 Apr 2025 - Older pensioners more likely to be living in poverty, warns charity 01 Apr 2025 - County appoints experts to explore new models of local government 01 Apr 2025 - Bucks to consider single unitary council 01 Apr 2025 - Housing and Planning Bill set for Royal Assent 01 Apr 2025 - Academy future for all schools still probable, says think-tank 01 Apr 2025 - Plea for funding to cope with child refugees 01 Apr 2025 - Universities and councils to collaborate in local growth pilots 01 Apr 2025 - Councils 'should get foreign aid cash for taking in child refugees' 01 Apr 2025 - Right to Buy extension to cost councils £26m a year 01 Apr 2025 - Alcohol consumption has increased in retirees, Government figures reveal 01 Apr 2025 - Government climbdown over forced academies plan in England 01 Apr 2025 - Research warns of 'grim' outlook for council spending 01 Apr 2025 - Labour blasts 'disgraceful' cuts to deprived councils 01 Apr 2025 - Local authority schools outperform academies, research suggests 01 Apr 2025 - Minister prepares to back track on academies plan 01 Apr 2025 - PMQs: Cameron vows to 'finish the job' on academies 01 Apr 2025 - Doubling of free childcare 'could force nurseries to close' 01 Apr 2025 - Four-year settlement unaffected by Budget, confirms Clark 01 Apr 2025 - Councils seek power to expand class sizes ahead of academisation plan 01 Apr 2025 - The road to self-sufficiency 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls using parking charges to raise cash 01 Apr 2025 - Gap in funding between richest and poorest schools doubled in 20 years, IFS says 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face fines of £5,000 a day for abandoned roadworks 01 Apr 2025 - Foreign aid to overtake council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Right to buy amendment causes concern over forced sale of housing stock 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall should invest '230 times' more to tackle potholes, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - £50m pothole fund denounced as 'complete madness' 01 Apr 2025 - Local Council Tax support schemes: an independent review 01 Apr 2025 - Highways maintenance funding: incentive element, 2016 to 2017 01 Apr 2025 - Cash for councils to fill almost 1 million potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Town halls receive funding to develop digital solutions 01 Apr 2025 - Libraries lose a quarter of staff as hundreds close 01 Apr 2025 - Winter floods cost councils £250m, says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - South East to receive five times more funding than the North per head for flood defences 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £11.8bn bill to bring roads up to scratch 01 Apr 2025 - MPs approve Chancellor George Osborne's Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Greg Clark offers communities multi-billion pound offer to boost local growth 01 Apr 2025 - Outgoing council chief executive says he 'longs' for the day council is scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - Local government reacts to Budget 2016 01 Apr 2025 - Going digital offers councils £14.7bn in savings 01 Apr 2025 - Budget brings fresh cuts, both direct and indirect, for public services 01 Apr 2025 - Budget takes small firms out of business rates 01 Apr 2025 - IFS warns on dark outlook for public finances 01 Apr 2025 - School parent governors to be scrapped 01 Apr 2025 - 'Black hole' in academy plan, claims Labour 01 Apr 2025 - Budget 2016: Services at risk as business rate cut reduces town hall revenue 01 Apr 2025 - Councils can raise cash by selling surplus assets 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set to increase council tax by 3.6% on average 01 Apr 2025 - Northamptonshire debates unitary status 01 Apr 2025 - George Osborne warns of ‘billions’ more in cuts ahead of the Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Finance innovation ‘key to making devolution a success’ 01 Apr 2025 - MPs reject Sunday trading reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Essex leader warns on business rate expectations 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector staff in line for average 1% pay rise 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could lose billions under school funding reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Morgan tackles 'unfair' school funding 01 Apr 2025 - England's waste rise blamed on 'recycling apathy' 01 Apr 2025 - Council cuts: Who gets the help to cushion the blow? 01 Apr 2025 - David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn childcare clash at PMQs 01 Apr 2025 - Bed blocking problem grows 01 Apr 2025 - Slicing the business rates cake 01 Apr 2025 - George Osborne warns of further spending cuts in Budget 01 Apr 2025 - Shortcut lorry drivers face fines 01 Apr 2025 - Make academies expand to help cope with school place demand 01 Apr 2025 - Shared opportunities: Hampshire’s Carolyn Williamson interviewed 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet Office makes changes to ensure funding cannot be used to lobby for more funding 01 Apr 2025 - Hospitals seek £1.5bn tax rebate 01 Apr 2025 - Survey reveals mixed attitude to the devolution of services 01 Apr 2025 - Unison members reject local government pay deal 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax rises 'will not cover' social care shortfall 01 Apr 2025 - Sugar tax ruled out in obesity fight 01 Apr 2025 - Scourge of US unions wanted as Ofsted chief 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne taxes ‘to kill 40,000 shops’ 01 Apr 2025 - UK's winter floods create 30,000 tonnes of landfill waste 01 Apr 2025 - MPs vote to approve Local Government Finance Settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Fears over attendance allowance transfer plans 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to get extra £300m to ease funding reductions 01 Apr 2025 - Jeremy Corbyn: 'Councils should run local services' 01 Apr 2025 - The places where it's rather hard to get a bus 01 Apr 2025 - MPs revolt over county council cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Cutting ever deeper: councils left no choice but to hollow out elderly care 01 Apr 2025 - Ofsted says academy chain is failing pupils 01 Apr 2025 - 8,500 patients blocking NHS beds every day 01 Apr 2025 - Union warns £3bn not enough to save care homes from bankruptcy 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could be ‘breaking the law’ by closing libraries, warn Unite 01 Apr 2025 - Public sector payoffs capped at £95,000 01 Apr 2025 - Police commissioners should start free schools for troubled children, home secretary says 01 Apr 2025 - Millions of pounds extra needed for care services, warn local government leaders 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to get Sunday trading powers 01 Apr 2025 - Public health grant cuts 'will have major impact on NHS programmes' 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax 'to rise four per cent' in April 01 Apr 2025 - Pension funds must not be gambled on Government projects, Unison warns 01 Apr 2025 - Council hit by £1 million malware demand 01 Apr 2025 - Thousands of children held overnight in cells 01 Apr 2025 - Rural Tory MPs to defy Cameron over town hall cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Food checks 25 per cent down despite horsemeat crisis 01 Apr 2025 - Tory MPs call for U-turn on school places as crisis looms 01 Apr 2025 - Expect tax rises and service cuts as councils feel squeeze 01 Apr 2025 - Flood risk areas face council tax increase 01 Apr 2025 - Report: Extend social care levy to district councils 01 Apr 2025 - Councils could face claims over pumped floodwater damage 01 Apr 2025 - Isle of Wight Council warns cuts are pushing it to the brink 01 Apr 2025 - Cuts are 'not realistic' and show 'misunderstanding' among ministers, council tells PM 01 Apr 2025 - County cuts could signal end of services, say council leaders 01 Apr 2025 - NHS chief demands political consensus on funding social care 01 Apr 2025 - County councils warn non-statutory services could end amid funding squeeze 01 Apr 2025 - Government cuts to hit counties 01 Apr 2025 - Fine home towns for petty criminals 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG Official Says 100% Rates Retention Will Require New Needs Assessment 01 Apr 2025 - Cross-party review 'needed for health and care'

2015

01 Apr 2025 - Councils could be fined £5,000 a day for unmanned roadworks 01 Apr 2025 - Council leaders express fear over years of cuts in local funding 01 Apr 2025 - Greg Clark hails historic 4-year settlement and support for adult social care 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health services 'turning care children away' 01 Apr 2025 - Thinktank Calls for More Tax-Rasing Power for Councils 01 Apr 2025 - 'Huge rise' in newborn babies subject to care proceedings 01 Apr 2025 - Worst children's services face takeover, PM says 01 Apr 2025 - Employers Announce Local Government Staff 1% Pay Offer for Next Two Years 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Announces Date of 2016 Budget 01 Apr 2025 - 'Paupers' funerals' cost councils £1.7m 01 Apr 2025 - Council tax 'to cost £200 more by 2020' 01 Apr 2025 - Local government funding at the Spending Review 2015 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review and Autumn Statement at-a-glance 01 Apr 2025 - LGA Warning Over Councils 'Right on the Edge' 01 Apr 2025 - NHS Set to Receive £3.8bn Funding Increase in 2016-17 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review: Schools to get 'fair funding' formula 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set to freeze services as they reach 'tipping point' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils set to freeze services as they reach 'tipping point' 01 Apr 2025 - New 2% Social Care Precept in Addition to 2% Referendum Cap Expected in Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns that Public Health Funding Will Not Be Protected in Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health early deaths 'worrying in one in four areas' 01 Apr 2025 - ‘National living wage’ will push up wages at more than half of employers 01 Apr 2025 - Head teachers appeal for funds ahead of Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Devolution: English counties tell George Osborne they must be involved in plans to devolve powers 01 Apr 2025 - Mayoral Devolution Could Leave Out Counties IPPR Warns 01 Apr 2025 - Health Secretary's personal view is that Government needs to move to a 'trajectory where social care is protected' 01 Apr 2025 - Retailers Lobby Government over Business Rates 01 Apr 2025 - Call for council-run schools to sponsor academies 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne to announce departmental cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Mental health gets only 1 per cent of council cash 01 Apr 2025 - Drivers miss payouts for ‘pothole epidemic’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA Calls for Business Rates Self-Assessment 01 Apr 2025 - NAO Warning on Fire Authorities' Financial Resilience 01 Apr 2025 - UK Population to Grow by Over 10m in Next 25 Years 01 Apr 2025 - LGPS Costs and Income Rise, Figures Show 01 Apr 2025 - BCF Will Continue, Ministers Say 01 Apr 2025 - Small Businesses Want Say in Business Rate Increases 01 Apr 2025 - Proposed Public Health Cut Calls into Question Government's NHS Funding Commitment 01 Apr 2025 - Councils can 'double savings' if Government invests in prevention 01 Apr 2025 - A devolution conundrum 01 Apr 2025 - Care funding is a ‘postcode lottery’ 01 Apr 2025 - Town hall chiefs warn of bedblocking crisis this winter 01 Apr 2025 - Health devolution will not work everywhere, says former DoH chief 01 Apr 2025 - Business rate reform will usher in council finance shake up 01 Apr 2025 - Moody’s: business rate devolution will drive up council debt 01 Apr 2025 - Spending review could floor local services, warns LGA 01 Apr 2025 - King’s Fund: pressure on councils now impacting on the NHS 01 Apr 2025 - Per pupil spending 'to fall by 8%' 01 Apr 2025 - Elected mayors for north-east of England as devolution deal announced 01 Apr 2025 - £470m Reduction in Adult Social Care Predicted by Report 01 Apr 2025 - Kent County Council considers council tax rise 01 Apr 2025 - ADASS/LGA Spending Review Submission Highlights Funding Challenges for Social Care 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Announces 100% Business Rates Retention for Local Authorities 01 Apr 2025 - 27% Cuts for Non-Protected Departments, IFS Warns 01 Apr 2025 - Free School Meals Will Not Be Cut, Says PM 01 Apr 2025 - Cost of Councils Picking Up Academies' Deficits Reaches £30m 01 Apr 2025 - CCN Chair Calls for a 'Fairer Settlement' 01 Apr 2025 - Social Care Sector Facing Uncertain Future, Providers Warn 01 Apr 2025 - Revealed: Shocking NHS postcode lottery for elderly care 01 Apr 2025 - One in Five Council Workers Will Receive National Living Wage Pay Boost, Says Thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Home Office Launch Consultation on PCCs Taking on Fire Responsibilities 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor announces OBR forecast alongside the Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - European Investment Bank Loans £102m for Schools Expansion in London Borough 01 Apr 2025 - Up to 30 Regions Expected to Submit Devolution Bids to Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - LGA Spending Review Submssion Highlights £10bn of Cost Pressures by 2019-20 01 Apr 2025 - Councils Under Pressure to Use Reserves to Reduce Cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Enterprise Zones Create 19,000 Jobs, DCLG Figures Show 01 Apr 2025 - Public Sector Workers May Not Receive 1% Pay Rise, says Chief Secretary 01 Apr 2025 - Transport Groups Warn of Risks to 'Everday Transport' in Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - National Living Wage will damage care homes 01 Apr 2025 - Local Governmnet Pension Funds Receptive to Treasury Plans to Pool Investments 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury to Cap Public Sector Pay-Offs at £95,000 01 Apr 2025 - Living Wage will Require £750m Extra for Homecare Workers in First Year Alone 01 Apr 2025 - CCN Chair Set Out Counties' Position on Spending Review 01 Apr 2025 - Call from Councils Not to Cut Care Act Funding 01 Apr 2025 - Police Funding Formula Consultation Launched 01 Apr 2025 - Spending Review to Report on 25 November 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers announce four-year delay on introduction of care cap 01 Apr 2025 - New Joint inspections to Respond to Safeguarding Concerns 01 Apr 2025 - Fears mount that council tax could soar 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face £1 billion annual bill to cover minimum wage 01 Apr 2025 - Budget Reveals Less Steep Path of Cuts for Public Services 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne Expected to Announce Slow Down in Pace of Welfare Cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Early help for children cut by half, say charities 01 Apr 2025 - Key London Olympic legacy a failure, says Tessa Jowell 01 Apr 2025 - Shops to trade for longer on Sundays under radical new plans 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers consider shelving personal liability cap for long-term care costs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils to receive £30m to Support Out of Area Adoption 01 Apr 2025 - Greg Clark tells Local Government Association “take power now” 01 Apr 2025 - CIPFA Survey Show Most Councuil Reserves Allocated 01 Apr 2025 - New LGA Chair Calls for End to NHS Ringfence 01 Apr 2025 - £3bn council cuts put vital services at risk 01 Apr 2025 - 'Damaging' business rates appeals system must change, warns LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Warning business rate reform should not 'undercut' council funding 01 Apr 2025 - Many over-65s in England 'rarely use public transport' 01 Apr 2025 - Meg Hillier elected chair of Public Accounts Committee 01 Apr 2025 - Whitehall doesn’t know how well Payment by Results is working, says NAO 01 Apr 2025 - Oversize lorries causing “bedlam” on rural roads 01 Apr 2025 - Care system at death’s door, says ex-minister 01 Apr 2025 - Essex sees demand reduction as key to savings 01 Apr 2025 - Minister Confirms DoLS Review to be Brought Forward 01 Apr 2025 - Roundtable of Council Finance Chiefs Proposes Pilots for Testing Reforms 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne reveals £230m spending cut for DCLG 01 Apr 2025 - Business tax 'could close 80,000 shops in two years' 01 Apr 2025 - NAO Report Warns of Additional Care Act Costs 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘may lose out’ from increase in bankruptcy threshold 01 Apr 2025 - Care reforms 'face £50 million black hole' 01 Apr 2025 - Councils ‘ignore potholes to boost funding’ 01 Apr 2025 - NAO New Burdens Reports Says DCLG Needs to Use Intelligence Better 01 Apr 2025 - Years more spending cuts to come, says OBR 01 Apr 2025 - Primary school pupil numbers soaring 01 Apr 2025 - Budget surplus rules for 'normal times' to be confirmed 01 Apr 2025 - SCT and Treasurers' Societies Respond to ADASS Survey 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor announces £4½ billion of measures to bring down debt 01 Apr 2025 - OECD tells George Osborne to spread pain of public spending cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Adult social care firms struggling for staff due to cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Treasury Looks for In-Year Cuts to Departments 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Examines How £12bn Welfare Cut Could be Achieved 01 Apr 2025 - Intervention for coasting schools 01 Apr 2025 - New Bill to Force Councils to Merge Adoption Services 01 Apr 2025 - CPI-linked bond ‘could provide model for local government borrowing’ 01 Apr 2025 - LGA Sets Out Plan for Fiscal Devolution 01 Apr 2025 - LGA Leaders to Osborne: Further Council Cuts 'Not an Option' 01 Apr 2025 - Chancellor Plans 'Stability' Budget for 8 July 01 Apr 2025 - Council Tax Reforms Proposed by Thinktank 01 Apr 2025 - Osborne Outlines Devloution Plan for Cities 01 Apr 2025 - Cabinet Reshuffle: New SoS at DCLG 01 Apr 2025 - Former vicar wins legal battle against council tax 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives on course for majority 01 Apr 2025 - Early Intervention Fund for Councils Could Drive Significant Savings, 50 Charities Say 01 Apr 2025 - What will the election mean for public services? 01 Apr 2025 - More older carers risking health 01 Apr 2025 - New lib dem plan to give every primary pupil a free school meal 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Calls on Politicians to Reform Council Tax 01 Apr 2025 - School Facing Hidden Funding Cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Cameron pledge to create 600,000 new businesses each year 01 Apr 2025 - David Cameron - no lack of drive in Conservative campaign 01 Apr 2025 - City mayors could get power over business rates 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Publish Analysis of Manifesto Plans 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems promise £150m carers' support 01 Apr 2025 - Lib Dems Would End Below Inflation Pay Deals for Public Sector 01 Apr 2025 - Final NHB Allocations 01 Apr 2025 - Parties' Manifestos Outline Policies for Local Government 01 Apr 2025 - Former DCLG Chief Warns Over Cuts to Local Government 01 Apr 2025 - Summons to Court over Unpaid Council Tax Rise by a Quarter 01 Apr 2025 - DCLG sees biggest civil servant staff cuts 01 Apr 2025 - Labour unveils sweeping devolution pledge 01 Apr 2025 - Poll shows public support for extra council tax band 01 Apr 2025 - Government finds extra funds to help manage Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards pressures 01 Apr 2025 - Social value: Fluffy, yes. But just look at the benefits 01 Apr 2025 - Councils face 13-year backlog to repair potholes 01 Apr 2025 - Better bin buying would save £70 million every year, says report 01 Apr 2025 - Bedroom tax policy ruled ‘unlawful’ in landmark case 01 Apr 2025 - Concerns over Care Act Funding as it Comes Into Force 01 Apr 2025 - Labour Would Not Abolish Referendum Limit 01 Apr 2025 - CCN Report Calls for Greater Devolution 01 Apr 2025 - More Clarity Needed on Spending Cuts, Says IFS 01 Apr 2025 - Successful Challenge Fund Highways Maintenance Bids Announced by DfT 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Research Predicts Schools Funding Squeeze in Next Parliament 01 Apr 2025 - Majority of Councils Accept Tax Freeze Offer for 2015-16 01 Apr 2025 - Final Coalition Budget Announces Rates Retention Pilots 01 Apr 2025 - Ministers to Consider More Freedoms for Service Transformation 01 Apr 2025 - HM Treasury Publish Business Rates Review 01 Apr 2025 - Another Reports Show Funding Cuts Hit Deprived Areas 01 Apr 2025 - Public Health Funding Disparities 'Concerning', Say MPs 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Report Shows Funding to Local Government Falls by 36% over Parliament 01 Apr 2025 - Tax Freeze Costs Councils £2.8bn CIPFA Says 01 Apr 2025 - Businesses Support Local Business Rates Setting, LGA Survey Shows 01 Apr 2025 - Greater Manchester Devolved Health Deal Details Announced 01 Apr 2025 - SIGOMA Publish Proposals for New Local Government Funding Model 01 Apr 2025 - Business chiefs call for business rate review 01 Apr 2025 - Surevy of Councils Shows 80% Plan to Raise Charges 01 Apr 2025 - Independent Commission Calls for Complete Control over Council Tax 01 Apr 2025 - Protect Social Care Funding Like NHS, Says LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Only a Quarter of Councils Planning Tax Freeze 01 Apr 2025 - IFS Forecasts Departmental Spending Cuts of 14% Over Next Parliament 01 Apr 2025 - Additional £74m for Upper-Tier Authorities in Final Settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Counties Lose Out on LEP Growth Deals, CCN Finds 01 Apr 2025 - Conservatives Committ to Protecting Schools Funding 01 Apr 2025 - Extra £12m for Social Care Criticised by LGA 01 Apr 2025 - Elderly care costs require councils to divert £1.1bn in April 01 Apr 2025 - Public Accounts Committee Says Most Deprived Councils Cut Most 01 Apr 2025 - Three Quarters of Counties Plan Council Tax Increase 01 Apr 2025 - House of Lords Debates Local Government Finance Settlement 01 Apr 2025 - Two CIties' Pension Funds Joint Investment in Infrastructure