Local Enterprise Partnerships should play a major role in a Labour government
Labour’s pledge to devolve £30bn to a series of localised public-private partnerships is a pretty good rebuttal to the line that the party doesn’t like business
local councils
There was much to welcome in Miliband’s devolution announcement
Localism has to mean allowing communities to decide their own structures.
Britain’s councillors: old, white, wealthy…hard-working?
Councillors are older, working longer and are more educated than in the past, according to a new survey.
Cuts to welfare and local councils hitting deprived areas hardest
Combined cuts to welfare and local councils are affecting the most deprived areas of England the most, a new study by the Labour Party has found.
Now even Tory council chiefs have a go at Pickles
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has come under attack from a number of Tory council leaders over the government’s savage cuts to local councils, reports Shamik Das.
We cannot address public sector pay without addressing private sector pay
The data about the earnings of ‘council fat cats’ need to be put in context; we cannot address public sector pay without addressing private sector pay.
Time to move away from spreadsheets and look at the real impact of the cuts
Location is crucial to understanding the full impact of the cuts; it is time to move away from spreadsheets and look at the real implications of the cuts in context.
If enough people speak out, councils may have to think again on bus cuts
There is still hope out there; if enough people make enough noise about buses, councils might just have to start to listen, writes Alice Ridley of the Campaign for Better Transport.
Pickles using smoke and mirrors to hide scale of cuts to councils
Shadow communities minister Barbara Keeley argues Eric Pickles is hiding the true scale of the cuts to councils, which hit the most deprived areas the hardest.
D-Day for councils as Pickles wields the axe
Today is D-Day for many of us, though it’s likely you may not have known it – today is the day councils in England find out how much (or how little) money they are going to be able to spend in the next two years.