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FINANCE

Deputy hits out at 'flawed' business rates system

By Dan Peters | 23 January 2020

Cannock Chase DC has expressed disappointment in the way Amazon-style warehouses are treated unde...

WHITEHALL

Unions criticise 'unnecessary' pay offer delay

By Dan Peters | 22 January 2020

The three unions representing council workers today criticised ‘unnecessary delays’ after local g...

WHITEHALL

LEPs start to buckle after overlap threat

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2020

Local enterprise partnerships (LEP) are finally succumbing to a threat by ministers to withhold f...

WHITEHALL

Councils under ministerial pressure over winter care funding

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2020

Ministers have piled pressure on councils to maintain winter funding for home care packages, hour...

FINANCE

Brum to save millions from up-front pensions payment plan

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2020

Birmingham City Council will pay three years of pension fund contributions up front to save more ...

WHITEHALL

Pressure on Government grows over schools grant deficits

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2020

Pressure is growing on the Department for Education (DfE) to take responsibility for growing dedi...

FINANCE

Grenfell council adopts participatory budgeting

By Dan Peters | 17 January 2020

The council at the centre of the Grenfell Tower tragedy has used participatory budgeting for the ...

FINANCE

Councils losing £250m a year through business rates avoidance

By Dan Peters | 17 January 2020

Councils are losing £250m a year due to businesses avoiding paying their rates, new research has ...

EDUCATION

Medway caves after Ombudsman rap

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020

Medway Council has finally accepted the recommendations in a Local Government Ombudsman public in...

FINANCE

Scottish Government resists business rates devolution plan

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020

Public finance minister Kate Forbes has hit out at opposition proposals to devolve control of bus...

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