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A recruitment campaign has been launched to address workforce shortages in local authorities, and aims to encourage young people aged between 18 to 27 to take up jobs in local authorities.

Councils that are in exceptional need of help are set to receive letters confirming government support to help balance their budgets.

A new government office complex in Manchester has been given planning consent.

People living and working in rural communities are being consulted on what government priorities should be to improve their lives.

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The Crown Commercial Service has launched a new scheme to simplify the procurement of electric vehicle infrastructure (EVI) for local authorities, helping to reduce the resource and cost burden on procurement teams.

The government has launched consultations in six areas on proposals to establish mayoral combined authorities or mayoral combined county authoritie

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The mayor of London has announced more than £985,000 investment to support communities across London, in a movement to unite Londoners together against hate.

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Following an analysis that has revealed that boroughs will suffer from a £500 million shortfall in the coming year, London Councils are calling on the government to consider better council investment in the government’s Spending Review, set to be announced this spring.

The government has announced £8.2 million of funding for a regeneration project in Port Talbot, South Wales.

Six new areas have been brought onto the Devolution Priority Programme, with Mayors to be elected by May 2026.

Scotland's chief statistician has published figures of local government finance in 2023-24.

Homes England and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) have formalised a Strategic Place Partnership (SPP) to continue work

The final Settlement for council funding has been confirmed by the government with more than £69 billion going to English councils.

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Almost 300 organisations throughout England have enrolled in the new Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service to help boost its delivery. 

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