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Conservative Party manifesto proposals would not meet rising costs faced by councils, while Labour Party policies would meet demand even with a council tax freeze, according to the Institute for[…]
As the battle for Number 10 hots up, Room151 takes a look at the manifesto commitments likely to be of most interest to section 151 officers. Conservative Party Business rates[…]
UK Municipal Bonds Agency (UKMBA) chief executive Aidan Brady is stepping down from his role as chief executive after leading the organisation for five years. Brady’s departure comes a week[…]
The only arm’s-length management organisation to oversee homes in multiple councils faces closure with all the councils involved intending to take the service directly in-house. East Kent Housing (EKH) serves[…]
Long-delayed reforms to social care were included in the government’s proposed legislative agenda announced in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. Proposals for a green paper on social care were originally announced in[…]
Councillors in South Oxfordshire are have been ordered not to take the district’s spatial plan back to the drawing board amid warnings the move could jeopardise hundreds of millions of[…]
Private sector and institutional lenders have been quick to react after the Treasury this week priced itself out of the long-term local government lending market. A new era for local[…]
The government is proposing to compensate councils with negative revenue support grant (RSG) in 2020/21, it has announced in a consultation on the distribution of next year’s local government finance[…]
Local areas could get more powers and cash from central government – but face government pressure to adopt unitary models, following this week’s Conservative Party conference. Speaking this week at[…]
A panel of finance directors gathered at Room151’s FDs’ Summit last week to chew over the implications of the recently-announced one-year spending settlement. In August, the government unveiled a one-year[…]
