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WHITEHALL

Reeves: Fair funding review could push some closer to cliff edge

By Dan Peters | 10 January 2019

The fair funding review could push some councils ‘closer to the cliff edge,’ the Society of Local...

WHITEHALL

Ministers play down commercialisation 'crackdown'

By Dan Peters | 10 January 2019

Ministers have played down the prospect of a widespread crackdown on councils that borrow for com...

FINANCE

How to make friends and influence central Government

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2019

Does the provisional finance settlement indicate an end to austerity? Will some councils lose out...

COUNCILLORS

CIPFA expands focus to councillors

By Dan Peters | 07 January 2019

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) is to broaden its support to co...

FINANCE

Council shuns bitcoin suggestion

By Dan Peters | 03 January 2019

Walsall MBC has shunned a suggestion from its local Conservative MP for residents to be allowed t...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Brokenshire lifts funding cap as homeless deaths rocket

By Dan Peters | 21 December 2018

Housing secretary James Brokenshire lifted the cap on the cold weather fund on the same day it wa...

FINANCE

One in six councils face financial stability risk

By Dan Peters | 20 December 2018

Four councils are spending more than 90% of their net revenue expenditure on social care and inte...

FINANCE

Welsh Government gives £24m boost to councils

By Dan Peters | 20 December 2018

Welsh councils will be handed an extra £23.6m in 2019/20 on the condition that they commit to reg...

WHITEHALL

Government could face legal challenge over SEND

By Dan Peters | 20 December 2018

Families have officially launched a High Court legal challenge against the Government’s special e...

WHITEHALL

Post-2020 cuts warning

By Dan Peters | 20 December 2018

Many council services could face further cuts beyond 2020 with local tax revenues unlikely to kee...

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