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Dawes invites tourism tax call

By Dan Peters | 23 October 2018

Marsham Street has given its clearest indication yet that it could be open to considering council...

Council to save £1m from gas contract

By Dan Peters | 22 October 2018

Crawley BC hopes to save an estimated £1m of revenue funding after appointing property services f...

LGPS expenditure rises

By Dan Peters | 19 October 2018

The total expenditure of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in England and Wales was £12....

SOLACE Summit: Commercialisation crackdown warning

By Dan Peters | 19 October 2018

A senior civil servant has warned councils the Government could crack down if commercialisation t...

SOLACE Summit: Dawes rejects NHS cash grab idea

By Dan Peters | 19 October 2018

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) top civil servant has encoura...

SOLACE Summit: Miller calls for social value approach change

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2018

Council chief executives have heard a rallying cry for them to bring their influence to bear on i...

SOLACE Summit: Councils are at back of austerity queue

By Dan Peters | 17 October 2018

Councils are at the ‘end of the queue’ when it comes to receiving funding from the Treasury, the ...

Positive powers amid adversity

By Dan Peters | 17 October 2018

Local government chiefs say budget cuts, managing citizen expectations and the reducing workforce...

EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs warning to May if austerity not lifted

By Dan Peters | 16 October 2018

More councils face scaling back services to a minimum statutory offer if prime minister Theresa M...

Casey: Involve councils in sorting Universal Credit

By Dan Peters | 16 October 2018

Whitehall must use the expertise of councils to sort out Universal Credit (UC), a former senior G...