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LGA under pressure on student council tax

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2018

Councillors have put Smith Square under pressure to lobby the Government to give local authoritie...

Whiteman defends 'traffic light' index

By Dan Peters | 09 July 2018

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s (CIPFA) chief executive has defended ...

NAO to reinforce external auditing

By Dan Peters | 09 July 2018

The National Audit Office (NAO) is to reinforce the importance of external auditor reporting afte...

Delays hit Capita contract

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2018

Capita’s provision of human resources (HR) and payroll service to five councils is ‘still not mee...

Northamptonshire finance officer who issued Section 114 quits

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2018

Northamptonshire CC’s chief finance officer has handed in his resignation weeks after issuing an ...

Cable: Commercial forays utterly bizarre

By Dan Peters | 05 July 2018

The leader of the Lib Dems has said it is ‘utterly bizarre’ that councils are buying up commercia...

Forbes calls for new funding approach

By Dan Peters | 05 July 2018

Senior vice-chair of the Local Government Association (LGA), Cllr Nick Forbes, has called for a ‘...

Rayner: Labour would devolve skills

By Dan Peters | 04 July 2018

A Labour Government would be committed to devolving responsibility for skills to city regions and...

Hawthorne: Local industrial strategies could go same way as devolution

By Dan Peters | 04 July 2018

Parts of the country could be left behind when Whitehall rolls out its local industrial strategie...

New indemnity mutual: We have learnt from LAML

By Dan Peters | 04 July 2018

The advisers behind the Local Government Association’s (LGA) new indemnity mutual insist they hav...