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Suffolk County Council must make savings of £28.4m to balance its budget for 2025/26, of which £10.9m are in addition to the £17.5m identified

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council’s external auditors have issued a statutory recommendation as part of the audit of the authority’s 2023/24 statutory accounts. Issuing the

A rise in the number of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) issued by Devon County Council has led to a £5.8m forecasted increase

Derbyshire County Council is set to implement a new £18.6m programme of savings focused on “fundamentally changing” its operating model to meet the predicted

The government has announced an £86m uplift to the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) for this financial year as part of a package of investment

An independent commission into adult social care will be launched by the government to “make clear recommendations for how to rebuild the adult social

Islington Council has implemented a financial software system that aims to enhance decision-making processes and ensure that public funds are directed to areas of

Some £36m of funding has been provided by the government to projects across the UK as part of Round 4 of the Community Ownership

The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged the government to reconsider holding back a quarter of the extra £500m funding it has announced for

Best Value Notices at Eastleigh and Runnymede borough councils will not be reissued by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), but

London CIV and the Church of England have announced a joint £104 million anchor investment in Man Group’s Community Housing Fund 3 LP (Man

Local government culture spending per person in England has been cut by 50.4% in real terms from £42.42 to £21.05 since 2009/10, according to

Cheshire East Council is asking the government for exceptional financial support (EFS) of up to £31.4m for 2025/26. It will be the second year

Some £79m of short-term borrowing at Medway Council is due for repayment before 31 March 2025. In a mid-year treasury review report, the authority

Planning reform proposals set out by the government would “empower” councils to buy cheaper land through the use of Compulsory Purchase Orders and build

The £30.9bn Strathclyde Pension Fund, which manages the pension assets of nearly 300,000 members on behalf of Glasgow City Council, has decided to increase

West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) has been advised to place oil and gas supermajors BP and Shell on a potential pathway to divestment, as

Modernisation and transformation of service and finance functions are “key” to Nottingham City Council’s recovery, local government minister Jim McMahon has said. Responding to

Croydon Council appears to have “lived within its budget of the financial year just concluded”, according to an eighth report from the authority’s Improvement

The Welsh government will provide an increase of £253m to the local government settlement in its proposed Budget, which represents a like for like

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for a “collaborative approach” between government and councils to tackle local housing challenges. Responding to the government’s

Councils must “play their part to meet housing need” by reaching a new combined target of 370,000 homes a year, the government has said.

LGPS Central, the Wolverhampton-headquartered pool for eight LGPS funds in the Midlands, has appointed a new chief investment officer (CIO). From Spring 2025, Jayne

Derby City Council is proposing savings of £10.2m to set a balanced budget in 2025/26. Measures include a review of staffing levels across all

The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England will “likely become unmanageable for local authorities over the coming years” without substantial reform.