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Part Five - When I retired in May 2018 after two terms as councillor in London Borough of Enfield I contacted NPI in that hope that some of the frontline economic innovations we…

Part Four - One of the things that stands out from my Enfield Council experience in economic regeneration was the extent to which decisions were based on potential partners'…

Part Three - There is always risk with any business, but this often a reflection of other issues. The first is competency. There can be a significant disconnect between what a…

Part Two - The challenges facing councils who want to set up and run their own enterprises. The first blog in this series established a rationale for state entrepreneurship as well…

Part One -The challenges facing councils who want to set up and run their own enterprises. The focus of this second series (five blogs in all) is on the financial and physical…

Part six – Local priorities for economic regeneration: an Enfield view Alan Sitkin, Senior Lecturer, Regents University London For anyone with an interest in the welfare of…

Part four – Local priorities for economic regeneration: an Enfield view Alan Sitkin, Senior Lecturer, Regents University London The previous blog identified the difficulties…

Part two - Local priorities for economic regeneration: an Enfield view Alan Sitkin, Senior Lecturer, Regents University London My previous blog discussed an economic priority for…

On the face of it, the argument for a transfer of powers from Stormont to Northern Ireland’s 11 local authorities is straightforward. The powers and budgets of the NI…

Part one - Local priorities for economic regeneration: an Enfield view Alan Sitkin, Senior Lecturer, Regents University London And there it is. You get elected councillor; your…

Our research for the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) charts how local government finance is changing dramatically, and the consequences for local areas.* With a…

In the fourth year of local Council Tax Support (CTS), disparities between the amount of support received by low income claimants in different areas are larger than ever before.…

In the first case of its kind, the Supreme Court has ruled  that a local authority’s consultation on its Council Tax Support scheme was unfair and therefore unlawful. At…

The High Court’s decision that Sandwell’s residency test for entitlement to council tax support was “unlawful” was a moment of sanity in the contradictory…

Poorer families could face year-on-year cuts in the safety net following changes to Council Tax Support. New research by the New Policy Institute for the Joseph Rowntree…

Jonathan Portes’ Guardian article in favour of a housing services tax looks good on paper. But, would such a tax really require the abolition of council tax and its system of bands…

One of the key announcements in today’s Queen’s Speech was the introduction of new support arrangements for carers. The move will see carers afforded a statutory right to financial…

Today, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation publishes research conducted by the New Policy Institute on the localisation of Council Tax Benefit. In April 2013 Council Tax Benefit will be…

Back in 2004, as the Labour government moved towards deciding how to bring council tax up-to-date (having made a commitment to do so back in 2001), NPI (in its guise as the Centre…