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Discretionary business grants fund expected to be over-subscribed

By Dan Peters | 12 May 2020

Councils expect to be swamped with applications to a new discretionary fund created to help small...

Government to ramp up PPE supply

By Dan Peters | 12 May 2020

The Government has announced that it is ramping up its efforts to procure and produce personal pr...

Warning over coronavirus and commercial investment cocktail

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

Worried finance chiefs have warned some councils that invested in commercial property have been p...

Shielding improvements on agenda for LGA and Whitehall

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

The Local Government Association is working with Whitehall to improve the support system for the ...

Unite expected to urge pay offer rejection

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

Trade union Unite is expected to recommend that its members reject the employers ‘final’ 2.75% pa...

Chiefs to develop care home resilience plans

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

Council chief executives will be put in charge of developing and reviewing council-level care hom...

Government should create unitary system, think-tank urges

By Dan Peters | 11 May 2020

The Government should create a unitary system of local government based on functional economic ar...

Bristol to bring back chief executive

By Dan Peters | 07 May 2020

Bristol City Council will bring back the role of chief executive – three years after scrapping th...

Council concern over falling child referrals

By Dan Peters | 07 May 2020

Councils have expressed concerns about falling referrals to children’s social care amid the coron...

Council leader calls on residents to be part of 'history in the making'

By Dan Peters | 07 May 2020

The leader of Isle of Wight Council has encouraged residents to make their mark in history by dow...