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Time for some new school thinking?

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

At a recent The MJ round table, council chief executives and senior managers met to discuss the r...

More business rates lead to Reading making £1m reserves raid

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Reading BC has been forced to raid its reserves by an extra £1m after collecting more business ra...

'Steady progress' for Birmingham

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Birmingham City Council is ‘making steady progress,’ an Ofsted monitoring report has found six mo...

Government cash for affordable housing

By Dan Peters | 13 June 2017

More than £1.75bn will be allocated to councils as part of a Scottish government commitment to st...

'Create STPs as statutory bodies'

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

Sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) should be created as statutory bodies, finan...

Tory policy 'won't aid' UK's social care crisis

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

The Conservatives’ social care policy would cost around £200m a year to run and will do nothing t...

Pension asset balance sheets 'in good health'

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

The asset side of local government pension schemes’ (LGPS) balance sheets is in good health, acco...

One in 10 LGPS schemes say funding and investment are top risks

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

Funding and investment is the biggest identified risk for local government pension schemes (LGPS)...

Single pension scheme for academies mooted

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

A single local government pension scheme (LGPS) fund for all academies could be created, a report...

Success of health integration hinges on data sharing

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

Resolving data-sharing challenges is critical to the success of health and social care integratio...