Districts and the transformation agenda

We are a cross-party network, providing a single national voice for our member councils

We are a cross-party, member-led network, providing a single voice for our member councils

Published: 21 November 2016

Growth, reform and trust: Creating places that deliver the potential of LGR

DCN invited Inner Circle Consulting to produce a paper setting out how places might best respond to the challenges and...

Reorganisation could create larger versions of dysfunctionality, warns independent report Local government...

Cllr Richard Wright, the DCN’s planning spokesperson, has responded to the publication of the Planning and...

Little correlation between unitary councils’ size and service quality, official data reveals New data analysis reveals...

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