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FINANCE

COSLA: Invest in councils before it is too late

By Dan Peters | 10 January 2020

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) has launched a campaign to persuade finance ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Government: Commissioner no longer needs to oversee Wakefield children's services

By Dan Peters | 10 January 2020

The Government has agreed that a commissioner no longer needs to oversee Wakefield Council’s chil...

LONDON COUNCILS

A gap that will prove hard to close

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2020

Dan Peters investigates the scale of the funding challenge faced by the 32 councils told by the G...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Pension funds pile pressure on Barclays over fossil fuel financing

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2020

Four pension funds will pile pressure on Barclays to phase out its financing of fossil fuel compa...

WHITEHALL

Doubts over March local industrial strategy deadline

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2020

The Government’s public commitment that all areas will have a local industrial strategy (LIS) agr...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: 100% business rates retention could be back on agenda

By Dan Peters | 07 January 2020

Full retention of business rates could shoot back up the agenda as part of a long-awaited Governm...

WHITEHALL

Government dismisses same-sex marriage concerns

By Paul Marinko | 07 January 2020

The Government has dismissed council concerns over registrars potentially refusing to perform sam...

WHITEHALL

Prevent review goes back to the drawing board

By Dan Peters | 03 January 2020

The Home Office has scrapped ‘overly confined’ terms of reference for an independent review of it...

WHITEHALL

Brexit lead officers thanked after Yellowhammer stood down

By Dan Peters | 02 January 2020

Brexit lead officers (BLO) of local authorities in England have been thanked after no-deal prepar...

WHITEHALL

Extra cash for homelessness and rough sleeping

By Dan Peters | 23 December 2019

The Government today pledged more than £260m for local authorities to support people who are home...

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