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Dan Peters

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EXCLUSIVE: Government prepares for new rate reliefs

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

The Government has started to prepare the ground for the introduction of new business rate relief...

'One-fifth of audit contracts should be put back out to tender'

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

The organisation responsible for appointing auditors should take away up to 20% of current contra...

EXCLUSIVE: Government to build on Brexit working

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) wants to capitalise on the way ...

EXCLUSIVE: Clash over timing of May election counts

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

Returning officers are on a collision course with police and crime commissioners (PCC) over the t...

Localis hired for fiscal devolution study

By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020

The Local Government Association has commissioned research to better understand how greater contr...

Permitted development pressure on Government grows

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2020

Pressure is growing on the Government to conclude its review of homes built under controversial p...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...