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Kerry Lorimer

LGR deferral offers ‘time to plan well and make considered decisions’

LGR

‘Radical and carefully designed’: but will fiscal devolution do enough to promote growth?

Devolution

LGR clarity for five areas – but turmoil churns on elsewhere

LGR

Budget: ‘give councils the fiscal tools they need to address challenges’

Devolution

SEND: ‘the spending trajectory for councils is going to be very uncertain’

SEND

‘Nothing in the formula reflects that this is the reality we live in’

Funding

Finance concerns over planned shake-up of Scottish councils

Funding

Fiscal devolution: audit must be ‘even more robust’ than under Audit Commission

Audit

Westminster to shed one in seven jobs amid ‘unprecedented’ pressure

Savings

Rural areas face ‘damaging’ fiscal devolution fall out

Devolution

EFS debt alleviation mooted for Slough

Debt

Bedford s151 ‘excluded from meetings’ amid governance warnings and increased intervention

Governance

SEND deficit write-off: what will it mean for treasury managers?

Lending

DSG deficits: disappointment and frustration over write-off delay

SEND

‘There has been an explosion of cost’: West Berkshire calls for curbs on exploitative care providers

Funding

Swindon finances ‘severely impacted’ by strain on children’s services

Funding

Fiscal devolution: ‘clever design’ needed to stop winners streaking ahead

Devolution

Stark reserves warning for Kirklees ahead of £24m budget gap

Finance
LGPS

LGR

Devolution

LGPS