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BUSINESS

Auditors in fees increase warning

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2020

Auditors have warned a number of councils that their audit fees for 2019/20 could be more than on...

FINANCE

Lancashire on 'solid footing' after service reviews

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2020

Lancashire CC finance chiefs believe they are now on a ‘solid footing’ after the council slashed ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Pension partnership in asset manager threat

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2020

The £30bn Brunel Pension Partnership has launched a combative new climate policy that threatens t...

BUSINESS

Council acts after planning 'collusion'

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2020

‘Swift action’ has been taken by Northumberland Council’s senior management after ‘several person...

HEALTH

Boroughs in GP estate devolution call

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2020

London Councils has called for more devolution to boroughs of decisions on the GP estate.

FINANCE

Row over SNP funding of councils

By Dan Peters | 23 January 2020

Local government is ‘treated far better in Scotland than it is elsewhere in the UK,’ the Scottish...

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...

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