COP26 may not have offered the perfect outcome but its stress on the importance of local communities underlines the need for central government to back council efforts to tackle carbon[…]
Andrew Hardingham marks the 10th anniversary of Room151 by looking back at a decade of local government finance. Firstly, a statement of the obvious: Every local authority section 151 officer[…]
Room151 experts offer their response to the spending review. Kate Ogden This spending review is relatively generous, and much more generous than suggested by the plans the chancellor published even[…]
“There’s never been a time when it’s been more important to be clear about governance and about the risks that our local authorities face.” So says Richard Harbord, former local[…]
As COP26 looms how have councils acted to tackle climate change and what do they need from the latest climate change summit? Mark Davies In the Netherlands by 1860 the[…]
Kate Ogden writes that councils face a potentially future following the spending review. In our recent report, we estimated that councils would need to spend £10bn more in 2024-25 than[…]
The government may allow increases in council tax much higher than current thresholds, writes Adrian Jenkins. There is much that we do not know about the spending review later this[…]
Training event: Tackling the political context and peculiarites of local government accounting. Negotiating the move from private sector to local government accounting can be daunting. But, according to one expert,[…]
The clock is ticking on implementation of the social care reforms. Ewan Dewar writes that many uncertainties remain to be resolved. The much lauded social care reforms were announced in[…]
The government’s social care announcements will fall short of solving the funding crisis for local government and might even make it worse, writes Adrian Jenkins. All now depends on the[…]
