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.
South East needs 'unified' approach to create a devolution framework
22/03/2022 Government must rethink the assumption that directing investment away from an ‘overheated’ South East will ‘cool’ the region and ‘heat’ the rest of the country, a report has warned today. |
Sharpening the commercial edge
17/06/2021 The case for well-managed council commercial activity is one that needs to be defended if we want a mature and sustainable local state, argues Jonathan Werran. |
Leaving nothing to chance
12/03/2020 The ‘levelling-up’ Budget is era-defining and ambitious in scope – but we will have to wait until the summer Spending Review to understand the blueprint, says Localis’s Jonathan Werran. |
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The price to pay
29/01/2020 If the Johnson Government values the institutions of mayoral governance as agents of levelling up, they will have to creatively fund and resource them, writes Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran. |
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Minister rules outs Yorkshire-wide devolution deal
11/07/2017 A Yorkshire-wide devolution deal has been ruled out by Northern Powerhouse minister Jake Berry. |
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Redundant public sector workers urged to be more mobile in new report
16/06/2015 Former public sector staff have been warned to find new jobs in the private sector quickly to avoid being unemployed for too long, in a briefing paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). |
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Councils forced to convert 1,000 'inadequate' schools into academies
03/06/2015 New measures will force councils to convert schools rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted into academies. |
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Queen's Speech 2015: Housing Bill outlined
27/05/2015 Council chiefs have demanded a lead role in housebuilding and greater powers to help deliver the Government’s Housing Bill commitments outlined today. |
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Queen's Speech 2015: Devolution, Right to Buy and welfare reform
27/05/2015 Proposals to ensure the devolution of cities and expand Right to Buy to social housing tenants were outlined in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech in nearly two decades today. |
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Queen's Speech: Councils await devolution and housing vows
27/05/2015 Plans to give cities greater economic powers and a controversial extension of the Right to Buy scheme to 1.3 million social housing tenants will be among Bills set out today in the first Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996. |
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Clark urged to tackle £47bn local government pension deficit
19/05/2015 The £47bn deficit in the local government pension scheme (LGPS) should be a top priority for new communities minister, Greg Clark, experts area advising. |
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Greg Clark appointed new local government secretary
11/05/2015 Greg Clark has replaced Eric Pickles as the new secretary of state for communities and local government, as part of David Cameron's post-election reshuffle of frontbench ministers. |
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Reynolds appointed shadow communities secretary
11/05/2015 Emma Reynolds has today been appointed shadow communities secretary following a Labour frontbench reshuffule made in the wake of the party’s disastrous general election result. |
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Lib Dem local government minister and Labour shadow lose seats
08/05/2015 Local government ministers and their shadows suffered opposed fortunes in last night’s tumultuous general election result. |
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Voters head to the polls for local elections
07/05/2015 Voting takes place in 279 English local authorities today, amid predictions of dramatic gains for UKIP and a drubbing for Conservative councillors. |
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Local politicians more trusted than Whitehall finds poll
29/04/2015 A new poll has revealed that residents trust their local politicians twice as much as their Westminster counterparts. |
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Vague manifesto tax pledges leaving voters 'in the dark', says IFS
23/04/2015 Leading public finance experts have condemned the main political parties’ manifesto spending pledges for refusing to spell out the detail of where funding would be cut. |
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Budget 2015: Welfare cap fits £21bn savings for Osborne
18/03/2015 The Government’s welfare cap is on track to deliver £21bn savings through changes to benefit payments and reforms to eligibility, the chancellor confirmed today. |
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Budget 2015: Councils could keep full fruits of business rates growth
18/03/2015 Local authorities have provisional agreement to keep the full yield of additional business rates growth, chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Budget. |
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All councils should be reinspected following Rotherham child abuse, say MPs
17/03/2015 All local authorities in England should be examined by Ofsted to ensure they are tackling child sexual exploitation (CSE), a report from a panel of MPs is demanding. |
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.
