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Dan Bates: assessing the 2025/26-2028/29 local government finance settlement

Blogs

Chris Buss: Ruminations

Blogs

Real terms funding increase in Scotland ‘far less’ than claimed as IFS warns of council tax ‘missed opportunity’

Scotland

Scottish councils pressed to curb council tax rises after ‘fair’ settlement

Scotland

Somerset eyes above-limit council tax rise

Council Tax

Settlement creates ‘massive losers and big winners’ but can LGR, prevention or digital transformation unlock its potential?

Finance

Scottish councils’ warning over financial sustainability

Scotland

Joseph Holmes interview: financial sustainability, local government reorganisation and becoming chief executive

LGR

Government has ‘big job’ to do on SEND outcomes as well as costs, says McGovern

Fair Funding

Walsall sounds warning over SEND deficits

SEND

Richmond calls for settlement ‘details’ to be fixed as more councils are ‘pushed to cliff edge’

Finance

BCP seeks 7.4% council tax hike after ‘beyond brutal’ settlement

Council Tax

Prevention undermined by ‘disconnect’ with health: Tom Wilkinson

Health

2025 in review part two: July to December

Finance

2025 in review part one: January to June

Finance

In charts: provisional finance settlement analysis

Fair Funding

Finance teams left to unravel settlement complexities – but increased demand for EFS seems clear

Fair Funding

Council tax hikes in six areas given go-ahead as funding falls

Council Tax

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