Martin Ford

Doubt has been cast on whether the adult social care fair pay agreement will have the impact claimed by ministers. Announced last month alongside £500m of funding,...

The past four years has seen tumultuous change across the country, emerging from a global pandemic only to face a financially disastrous mini-Budget, the death of...

Shropshire Council will have to rely on Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) to stave off a section 114 notice, according to a corporate peer challenge. The newly-published...

The most common failings plunging councils into financial crisis have been laid out in analysis published today by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and...

Taking the helm of the first combined county authority in England was like ‘flying the plane while building it', the The MJ's Future Forum Midlands heard this afternoon....

Reform UK-led Worcestershire CC is the latest council to raise concern over Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs). Leader Joanne Monk has written to all district...

The Government has been urged to lift the council tax referendum limit to help local authorities hit by the fair funding review. Responding to a consultation...

Fears councils may be forced into issuing section 114 notices by the fair funding review have been voiced as the consultation deadline approaches. It has been...

A key part of the proposed fair funding formula must be removed due to ‘serious issues', London Councils has demanded. The group said the relative needs formula...

Exercises carried out to prepare for another potential pandemic have uncovered a litany of challenges that would hamper the response to a fresh virus outbreak, The...