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Dan Peters

Dan Peters

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EXCLUSIVE: Jenrick pledges to improve Brexit communications

By Dan Peters | 13 August 2019

New local government secretary Robert Jenrick has promised to make communication from Whitehall o...

Tourism levy meeting call

By Dan Peters | 13 August 2019

Core Cities has called for a meeting with new culture secretary Nicky Morgan and her ministers to...

Language change for DToC

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2019

The term ‘delayed transfers of care [DToC] beds’ should be scrapped to ‘support a greater focus o...

Local audit at a 'crossroads'

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2019

Local audit is at a ‘crossroads’ and needs to provide ‘better assurance and more impact for the p...

Red card shown to traffic light rating

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2019

Controversial plans to issue a traffic light rating for every councils’ financial sustainability ...

Number of delayed audit opinions rockets

By Dan Peters | 09 August 2019

The number of delayed audit opinions in local government has risen sharply this year, according t...

Councils forge ahead with clear-up after flooding

By Dan Peters | 08 August 2019

Staff at England's largest council have started work to repair the flood damage that closed roads...

One in five fail to keep schools deficit below 1%

By Dan Peters | 08 August 2019

One in five councils with education responsibilities have failed to keep their dedicated schools ...

EXCLUSIVE: Two LEPs still do not have legal personality

By Paul Marinko | 07 August 2019

Two local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) have been granted extensions due to ‘exceptional circums...

Road to recovery

By Dan Peters | 06 August 2019

Dan Peters assesses the options available to local authorities as many begin to struggle with sch...