Met issued improvement notice after 'leadership failures'Subscription
Ofsted found senior leaders had ’no awareness’ of deterioration in services
Porter: Planning rows fuelled Tory elections 'car crash'Subscription
Frustration over Brexit combined with local planning woes to deliver loss of more than 1,000 seats, LGA chair has said
New county analysis finds London has enjoyed £2.4bn 'surplus'Subscription
Fresh analysis by PwC uses a new methodology to quantify spending need and finds £50bn funding gap by 2025
County director takes on lead STP roleSubscription
Joint appointment made to continue development of an integrated care system
MPs call for coordinated bus strategy to address declineSubscription
The country’s most popular form of public transport is in serious decline due to fragmented government policy and reductions in council funding, a cross-party committee of MPs has said.
Exclusive: More embrace tourism tax to plug funding gapsSubscription
Three more councils are considering drawing up plans for a tourist tax to help them fill the vacuum left by cuts in government grant funding
A question of needsSubscription
Five finance tips for new councillorsSubscription
What the rise of populism might mean for localismSubscription
The NHS needs help fixing mental health for children and young peopleSubscription
The unexploded financial mines in Gove's waste strategySubscription
Let’s turn Brexit’s poison into medicineSubscription
Northants: one rule for children’s services, another rule for the restSubscription
'To make cities smart, harness data and focus on outcomes'Subscription
Local government’s focus is shifting from technology to objectives. But a conversation must happen on how it uses data
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