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LEP stand-off continues

By Dan Peters | 12 March 2019

Councils continue to resist a Whitehall-driven boundary review of local enterprise partnerships (...

Government Settled Status scheme 'will cope' with surge

By Dan Peters | 11 March 2019

The Government has insisted it will be able to cope with up to three million people applying for ...

DEFRA: We will fund new burdens to collect food waste weekly

By Dan Peters | 11 March 2019

Whitehall has insisted that local authorities will be funded for new burdens connected with plans...

Making better discharge decisions needs a whole-system approach

By Dan Peters | 11 March 2019

Social care and the NHS should analyse Delayed Transfer of Care (DToC) statistics on a system bas...

Call for outcome focus as DToC pressure reduces

By Dan Peters | 08 March 2019

Health and social care systems should increase their focus on outcomes for individuals as Whiteha...

Call for place-based Spending Review

By Dan Peters | 07 March 2019

The Treasury should develop a new national place-based Spending Review, the independent Royal Soc...

£100m cost of EU elections if Brexit delayed beyond June

By Dan Peters | 05 March 2019

The UK could be landed with a £100m bill to host EU elections separately from May’s local polls i...

Whitehall pledges Brexit improvement

By Dan Peters | 05 March 2019

Civil servants have insisted they are working to improve information sharing with local authoriti...

Automatic checks used to decide 80% of Settled Status applications

By Dan Peters | 04 March 2019

Four out of five of the 150,000 applications for Settled Status so far have been accepted after a...

Government brushes off Kara criticism

By Dan Peters | 04 March 2019

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has brushed off criticism from ...