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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...

Five councils to trial social workers scheme

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2018

The new national assessment and accreditation system (NAAS) for child and family social workers i...

Voluntary council tax scheme raises £400k

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2018

Westminster City Council’s scheme to encourage its wealthiest Band H residents to contribute extr...

Sunak: Fair funding is my number one task

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2018

Local government minister Rishi Sunak has said fair funding is his ‘number one task’.

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...