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Council buys office to generate income

By Dan Peters | 15 April 2019

South Cambridgeshire DC has made a £13m investment in a high-quality office building to generate ...

Kara: Financial sustainability about more than just money

By Dan Peters | 12 April 2019

The key ingredients of financial sustainability have been outlined by a senior sector figure spea...

Social care precept 'avoided catastrophe'

By Dan Peters | 11 April 2019

The introduction of the social care precept ‘avoided catastrophe’ but the sector still faces a fu...

Treasury announces details of £95k exit payment cap

By Dan Peters | 10 April 2019

A £95,000 cap on local government exit payments will be implemented despite the sector being resp...

Northamptonshire dithering could lead to reorganisation delay

By Dan Peters | 10 April 2019

A group of Northamptonshire MPs has urged the Government to sign off reorganisation plans for the...

EXCLUSIVE: Call for inspection pause in case of Brexit hit

By Dan Peters | 10 April 2019

Council chiefs have urged Whitehall to be ready to ease pressures on the sector for up to six mon...

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh deadline for overlapping LEPs

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2019

Minister Jake Berry has laid down a fresh deadline for local enterprise partnerships (LEP) to rem...

Row over devolution delay

By Dan Peters | 08 April 2019

Councils and the Government are at loggerheads over who is to blame for a 17-month delay for a de...

EXCLUSIVE: LGA in finance director plea

By Dan Peters | 08 April 2019

Council finance directors have been urged to detail the pressures facing services and the savings...

Council decision to determine agency future

By Dan Peters | 08 April 2019

The future of a not-for-profit enterprise agency rests on talks over its failure to pay back a lo...