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EXCLUSIVE: £95k exit cap regulations are 'lawyers' charter to print money'

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2019

Government regulations introducing a £95,000 cap on local government exit payments are a ‘lawyers...

Pensions Infrastructure Platform optimistic despite Brexit

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2019

A vehicle designed to encourage council pension schemes to invest in UK infrastructure will not l...

Council finding it 'harder to identify and deliver savings'

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2019

Knowsley MBC is finding it ‘harder to identify and deliver savings’ given the scale of Government...

Councils to appeal 'town hall Pravdas' ruling

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2019

Waltham Forest and Hackney LBCs will appeal after a judge backed Government attempts to stop them...

No new cash for Greater Manchester local industrial strategy

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2019

A former senior civil servant and council chief has questioned the impact of Greater Manchester’s...

'Stuck in the past'

By Hiba Mahamadi | 13 June 2019

Campaigners have claimed parts of local government are ‘still stuck firmly in the past’ after a c...

Savings scepticism over election reforms

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019

Election professionals have expressed scepticism that expected savings from reforming the annual ...

Call for Liverpool intervention after mayoral review frustration

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019

Liverpool City Council’s Lib Dem leader has called for the Government to intervene after he claim...

Information sharing tensions found in child harm review

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019

Legal and ethical tensions between maintaining confidentiality and sharing information are contin...

Transformation 'largely left to smoulder on the back burner'

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019

Five years ago the Service Transformation Challenge Panel was launched with the aim of delivering...