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Council services to move to joint venture

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Derbyshire CC’s cleaning, caretaking and building design services will be transferred to joint ve...

CIPFA calls for strengthening of council borrowing rules

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Legislation governing the rules on council borrowing should be strengthened, the Chartered Instit...

Council to take commercialisation to 'next level'

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Senior Ashford BC councillors will accelerate their approach to commercialisation to the ‘next le...

Ministers to receive Somerset unitary business case

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

A business case for a single Somerset unitary has been sent to communities secretary Robert Jenri...

Government in attempted grants cash grab

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020

Fresh calls have been made for councils to be allowed to dole out to businesses the £1.6bn unspen...

'Small minority' of councils have still not had a corporate peer challenge, report finds

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020

The Local Government Association (LGA) should consider what further action it could take to encou...

Havering stands by investigation lead choice

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

Havering LBC has insisted the officer chosen to lead an investigation into gerrymandering and mis...

Oldham tightens restrictions as Wilkins takes on Whitehall role

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

The council whose chief executive has been drafted in as national test and trace adviser has tigh...

EXCLUSIVE: Stretched LRFs in cash plea

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

Stretched local resilience forums (LRF) have pleaded for cash amid warnings a lack of funding is ...

LEP Network comes out fighting ahead of White Paper

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020

The chair of the network that supports local enterprise partnerships (LEP) has come out fighting ...