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Johnson promoted at Wolverhampton

By Dan Peters | 19 July 2018

Tim Johnson has been promoted to managing director at Wolverhampton City Council.

Zurich questions indemnity mutual

By Dan Peters | 19 July 2018

A major local government insurer has welcomed the sector’s plans for a new mutual but questioned ...

Budget gap doubles at Lewisham

By Martin Ford | 17 July 2018

Lewisham LBC’s budget gap has more than doubled following an ‘unprecedented’ overspend.

Sunak: Some councils will be unhappy after fair funding

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2018

Local government minister Rishi Sunak has said he ‘cannot guarantee’ all councils will be happy a...

Council calls for asylum review

By Dan Peters | 16 July 2018

Portsmouth City Council’s leader, Cllr Gerald Vernon Jackson, has urged a review of the system fo...

Whitehall reassurance on local industrial strategies

By Dan Peters | 16 July 2018

Senior civil servants have pledged that local industrial strategies will be rolled out everywhere...

County chiefs show red to traffic light ratings

By Dan Peters | 16 July 2018

County council chief executives have broken cover to warn that plans for a traffic light-style fi...

Powys CC chief executive to leave

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2018

Powys CC chief executive Jeremy Patterson is to leave the authority after almost 10 years in the ...

Somerset CC's leader denies Section 114 is 'on horizon'

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2018

Somerset CC's leader, Cllr David Fothergill, has denied the council is about to issue a Section 1...

Relief after sleep-in ruling

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2018

Council leaders have expressed their relief after a legal decision today not to count sleep-in sh...