What really caused the council funding crisis?
Max Mosley, NIESR, explores the origins of the local government funding crisis and warns the next government will have to act quickly to address it.
LGA welcomes new police support for councillors
29/02/2024 The Local Government Association (LGA) has welcomed news that councillors will for the first time have a named police contact to help with security issues. |
Scottish councils reach participatory budgets target
12/07/2023 Scottish councils have achieved a target of spending 1% of their budgets through the participatory budgeting process. |
Big losses for Conservative councils
09/05/2023 The Conservatives have lost seats in the North, South and Midlands, with Labour and the Lib Dems scooping up victories. |
Notts council urged to end twinning with Chinese city
14/02/2023 Campaigners have published an open letter calling on Nottingham City Council to end its relationship with a city in China. |
Residents will have to approve street names changes under new proposals
12/04/2022 Councils will be required to get approval from local residents to change street names under new proposals announced today. |
City council votes for major governance overhaul
25/03/2022 Sheffield City Council has agreed to a major overhaul of how it will take democratic decisions after a referendum on the city’s governance last year. |
Calls for radical expansion of parish and town councils
12/11/2021 Parish and town councils should be established in every neighbourhood to help places level up and revive local democracy, a think tank has said today. |
It’s now or never for modern democracy
14/10/2021 The electoral landscape is now ‘more crowded than ever’, while council resources have been ground down, says Laura Lock – and she warns that professionals do not have limitless capacity. |
How can open data compliment community development?
24/08/2021 Nathan Coyle outlines the mechanisms and tools to help councils to take citizen engagement on the issue seriously |
Elections Bill introduced in Parliament
06/07/2021 Councils must be properly funded and given ample time to prepare for the 'significant' changes proposed for election rules in the UK, the Electoral Commission has warned. |
Care home residents 'barred' from voting booth says care group
14/04/2021 A care group has branded it a 'national scandal' that care home residents will be unable to vote in person in the local elections without self-isolating for 14 days afterwards. |
UCL study calls for ‘21st century approach to prosperity’
16/03/2021 A new study has criticised the Government’s top down levelling-up agenda and calls for what it calls a ‘21st century approach to prosperity’. |
Campaigners warns voter ID plans will 'disenfranchise millions'
10/03/2021 Plans for mandatory voter ID will disproportionately impact the BAME community and prevent millions of people from voting, campaigners have warned. |
Councils given power to hold meetings remotely
03/04/2020 Local authorities will be allowed to hold public meetings remotely by video or telephone, under new powers introduced today. |
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Three councils named ‘democracy pioneers’
12/03/2020 Nineteen ‘democracy pioneers’, including three local authorities, have been awarded £10,000 each for their work to improve people’s understanding and experience of democracy in the UK. |
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.
