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Council in bid to rebalance portfolio

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Bath & North East Somerset Council is to rebalance its investment property portfolio as it tries ...

Uncertainty over rates retention

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Local government finance experts have questioned whether the next government will push ahead with...

Liverpool chief executive to 'step aside' after arrest

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2017

Liverpool City Council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald will 'voluntarily step aside' after he was ...

Tory ID check plan could 'put people off voting'

By Dan Peters | 18 May 2017

Plans in the Conservative manifesto to introduce voter identification across the UK are ‘overbear...

Councils hit with burden of creating rates relief schemes

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

District councils are having to come up with separate discretionary business rates relief schemes...

Electoral administrators 'close to quitting' as they feel the strain

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

Electoral administrators are under severe strain as they prepare for a snap General Election just...

Four out of five sign up to tackle benefit fraud and errors

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

More than four out of five councils have signed up to the Government’s new initiative to tackle h...

UC rollout fuels fears of more delays and rent arrears

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) planned rollout of Universal Credit (UC) ‘risks exace...

Tories reveal local government approach in manifesto

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

The Conservatives have revealed a raft of policies on social care, business rates, devolution, ho...

Electoral teams under 'severe strain'

By Dan Peters | 16 May 2017

Electoral administrators are under severe strain as they prepare for a snap General Election just...