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Future Forum North: Consultant's call to shorten recruitment process

By Dan Peters | 01 December 2016

Local government may need to refine its lengthy recruitment process to attract the highest calibr...

Chorley calls for fresh look at unitaries

By Dan Peters | 30 November 2016

Chorley BC has made a renewed call for ‘radical changes to the structures of local government’ in...

English authorities' rate collections up by 3.7%

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2016

The amount English councils collected from business rates in 2015/16 increased by 3.7% or £804m o...

No pressure on mergers, insists minister Drakeford

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2016

Welsh minister Mark Drakeford has admitted he faces competition from his colleagues to push throu...

Portsmouth's budget to focus on 'entrepreneurial' income generation

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2016

Portsmouth City Council has proposed a budget that aims to minimise the impact on public services...

'Embed data analysts in councils'

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2016

Government should spend 1% of its £450m digital budget embedding data analysts in councils, innov...

Travers: London should get VAT and income tax cash

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2016

The capital should eventually be given fiscal powers over VAT and income tax, the chair of the Lo...

Whiteman calls for London council map to be ripped up

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2016

London’s 33 councils should be abolished and replaced with as few as five New York-style boroughs...

Khan: Keep the pressure up on fiscal devolution

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2016

London mayor Sadiq Khan has told the capital’s local government to keep up the pressure on Whiteh...

PbR goes on despite doubts over financial framework

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2016

Marsham Street expects to make further payments by results as part of its Troubled Families progr...