Labour suffer deep losses, Reform make sweeping gains, the Conservatives suffer in their traditional county council heartlands, and the Green win their first elected mayors.[more...]
More than 70 UK sporting bodies have called on the Government to reconsider £120 million of cuts to school sports funding in England. The proposed cuts… [more...]
An increasing amount of local authority audits are being held up by treasury management issues, with some resulting in a failure to meet statutory backstop dates.
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Higher debt interest payments and lost tax revenue due to prolonged conflict in the Middle East could cost the Treasury up to £8bn a year, the… [more...]
Despite upping taxes and penalties, local authorities are finding themselves in increasingly precarious financial positions as elections loom [more...]