We empower councils to operate confidently within the changing landscape of local government.
We empower councils to operate confidently within the changing landscape of local government.
The DCN have broadly welcomed the government’s proposals that would see the Education and Skills Funding Agency paying schools’ business rates directly to billing authorities, removing the need for local authority maintained schools and academies to make these payments to billing authorities themselves.
The LCN’s political proportionality has been confirmed following the local elections. The figures are produced by the...
No participant was under any illusion about the scale of the challenge. LGR is a complex process that requires the...
Most councils have granted enough planning permissions to meet Government-set targets – but many aren’t resulting in...
Welcome to this series of bite-sized webinars on local government reorganisation from Birketts. In them, Claire Jones,...
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