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Lower-tier councils pull out of Sheffield devolution deal

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Bassetlaw DC has become the second lower-tier council to back away from participation in the Shef...

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...

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...

Regulator called in to probe request

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

A regulator has again been asked to intervene in a long-running battle to get the Government to e...

Councils face huge refund woes after Virgin billing U-turn

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

Virgin Media has backtracked on a proposed deal that would have led to it withdrawing its attempt...

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...