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Property purchases will net £1.6m for district council

By Dan Peters | 22 March 2017

Basildon BC could eventually spend £80m buying up property across the UK to generate £1.6m a year...

Separate audit is needed for housing benefit work

By Dan Peters | 22 March 2017

Section 151 officers have been reminded they will have to procure accountants to carry out their ...

Unitary plan would 'pull council off see-saw'

By Dan Peters | 15 March 2017

South Northamptonshire DC has warned that unitary plans by ‘financially-stricken’ Oxfordshire CC ...

'Brexit wil make more work for small firms,' says Javid

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has said the Government will use Brexit to make it easier for s...

Councils prepared to lose cash after Brexit

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Council negotiators have resigned themselves to taking a financial hit from Brexit as they contin...

Benefit changes warning

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Hackney LBC has warned MPs about the Government’s attempt to ‘rush through’ benefit changes to th...

One in three upper-tier councils face 'severe financial challenges'

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

At least one in three of England’s 152 upper-tier councils are facing ‘severe financial challenge...

'Ambitious' health integration plans look to be 'scaled back'

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

The Government has scaled back on achieving full health and social care integration by 2020, it h...

Council approves £9m hospital loan

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Senior councillors have approved a £9.2m loan to help Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation...

Jones to leave think-tank to work with Clark

By Dan Peters | 10 March 2017

The chief executive of the Centre for Cities think-tank, Alexandra Jones, has been hired to head ...