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Kirklees under 'unprecedented' pressure over £54m shortfall

By Dan Peters | 09 August 2017

Kirklees MBC ‘continues to face significant financial challenges’ even after raiding £23m from it...

Rental boost revealed as homelessness rises

By Dan Peters | 03 August 2017

The Government has announced further plans to boost the private rental sector and tackle affordab...

Derbyshire chief is axed to save money

By Dan Peters | 02 August 2017

Derbyshire CC has axed the chief executive role and will reduce the size of its top management te...

No movement on rates has councils in a lather

By Dan Peters | 02 August 2017

Councils have reacted with anger after the Government refused to allow them to move £300m of busi...

Scots warned over health and social care strategy

By Dan Peters | 02 August 2017

Scottish councils do not have the funding needed for health and social care integration, the Char...

'Concerns' aired over UC roll out

By Dan Peters | 02 August 2017

Scottish Labour has urged the Conservative government to halt the roll out of Universal Credit (U...

Government acts after sleep-in back pay ruling

By Sam Clayden | 26 July 2017

The Government has responded after a tribunal ruling granted sleep-in support workers up to six y...

Pressure mounts on 1% pay cap

By Dan Peters | 26 July 2017

Local government employers are contemplating a two-year pay offer as they battle to keep rises af...

DoLS delays lead to calls for reforms

By Dan Peters | 26 July 2017

Fresh calls have been made for urgent reforms to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) sys...

Whitehall told social care must become 24/7 sector

By Dan Peters | 26 July 2017

Social care services need to become ‘more flexible’ to ensure an ‘effective and integrated urgent...