Government advisers urge overhaul of infrastructure funding
16/05/2024 Councils should be given more funding to play a greater role in developing infrastructure projects, according to Government advisers. |
Wales pushes back council tax reform
15/05/2024 Council tax reforms will not come into force until 2028, the Welsh Government has announced. |
Auditor issues qualified opinion on Stoke-on-Trent accounts
15/05/2024 Concerns over finances and children’s services have resulted in auditors issuing a qualified opinion on Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s accounts. |
Mayors meet to hear growth plans
13/05/2024 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has summoned his party’s newly-elected mayors for a meeting to detail his plans for economic growth. |
Oracle project costs soar from £3m to £40m
09/05/2024 The budget for replacing an IT system with Oracle has ballooned from £2.6m to almost £40m, councillors in West Sussex have heard. |
Government relents over broadening forms of voter ID
07/05/2024 Complaints were raised by ex-servicemen who were turned away at polling stations after attempting to produce veteran cards as proof of ID. |
Councils pay £1m in data breach compensation
03/05/2024 More than £1m has been paid out by 39 councils in compensation for data breaches in the past three years. |
Vote warning
01/05/2024 Elections officers have warned of the impact of changes to postal vote rules as polls open across England and Wales on Thursday. |
'Blunt tool' ranks council finances
01/05/2024 Rushcliffe BC is the highest-ranked council in England for finance with Leeds City Council coming bottom, according to metrics. |
Call for powers to back up funeral director inspections
01/05/2024 Councils have said they ‘urgently’ need more powers and resources after being tasked with inspecting funeral directors. |
Political battle over National Care Service
25/04/2024 Competing visions of the future of social care have been set out by Labour and the Conservatives as they prepare for a General Election. |
Social housing tests could heavily impact London
25/04/2024 London boroughs are likely to be most heavily impacted by the Government’s proposed UK connection test for social housing. |
Gove open to giving mayors Whitehall voice
23/04/2024 Local government secretary Michael Gove has not ruled out a ‘formal structure’ for mayors to work more closely with central government. |
Wirral assurance panel ‘no longer required’
19/04/2024 Wirral MBC’s Independent Assurance Panel (IAP) has officially stood down after declaring it was ‘no longer required’. |
Watchdog tells Falkirk to confront 'difficult decisions'
17/04/2024 Falkirk Council faces ‘difficult decisions’ to bridge a budget gap of tens of millions, according to Audit Scotland. |
EXCLUSIVE: Demand surges for UASC age assessments
12/04/2024 Councils are struggling to cope with demand for age assessments of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) as record numbers arrive once again in Kent. |
Grant Thornton fined over pension audit
08/04/2024 Grant Thornton has been fined by the Financial Reporting Council for ‘failures’ in its audit of an unnamed local authority’s pension fund. |
Parties draw battlelines for local elections
28/03/2024 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given a speech in Dudley today following campaign launches by the Conservatives and Lib Dems. |
Councils 'struggling' to tackle cohesion threats
25/03/2024 Councils are struggling to tackle threats to social cohesion due to a lack of support from central government, according to a major new review. |
Scottish councils in tax U-turn
25/03/2024 Argyll and Bute and Inverclyde councils had both voted to raise tax in defiance of the Scottish Government's efforts to secure a nationwide freeze. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.