Author Profile

Dan Peters

Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

Senior staff share with Peterborough

By Dan Peters | 05 October 2016

Peterborough City Council is to share a second member of its senior management team with Cambridg...

Trusts fight on to receive business rate relief

By Dan Peters | 05 October 2016

NHS trusts have refused to give up their fight to receive mandatory business rate relief despite ...

Drakeford: No forced council mergers in Wales

By Dan Peters | 04 October 2016

Wales’ local government secretary Mark Drakeford has promised there will be no forced mergers of ...

Government to get Northern Powerhouse 'firing on all cylinders'

By Dan Peters | 29 September 2016

Northern Powerhouse minister Andrew Percy vowed to get the agenda ‘firing on all cylinders’ as th...

DoLS rise to record level

By Dan Peters | 28 September 2016

The number of applications for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) received by councils has ...

'Let's reorganise before planned finance system overhaul'

By Dan Peters | 27 September 2016

Local government reorganisation should happen before the planned overhaul of the finance system, ...

Council pension funds review opens

By Dan Peters | 27 September 2016

An expert has suggested the status quo could be the ‘least bad option’ as a review of academisati...

Slough strips monitoring officer of role

By Dan Peters | 27 September 2016

Slough Council could face a judicial review after claims it illegally sacked its monitoring officer.

Herefordshire quizzed over recent resignation

By Dan Peters | 27 September 2016

Opposition councillors have called for Herefordshire Council to explain the circumstances behind ...

Academisation could cost councils £320m

By Dan Peters | 23 September 2016

The cost to council taxpayers of converting all schools to academies could be as high as £320m, n...