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EXCLUSIVE: BCF 'journey must continue' says minister

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Local government minister Kris Hopkins has told The MJ he wants the Better Care Fund to continue ...

Councils' own firms in need of tax holiday

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

New council-owned trading companies should be given a three-year corporation tax holiday funded b...

Criticism of LGPS gets a hammering

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Local government figures have hit back at a radio documentary that criticised the UK council pens...

Call for devolution of minimum wage enforcement

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Newham LBC and the GMB trade union have called for the power to enforce underpayment of the natio...

Report: Devolution can help solve NHS crisis

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2015

English devolution can help solve the NHS care and cash crisis, a new report by think-tank Reform...

Hopkins promises to 'respond robustly' to legal threat

By Dan Peters | 20 March 2015

Local government minister Kris Hopkins has said his department will ‘respond robustly’ to Greenwi...

Budget 2015: Call for more devolution after 'disappointing' deal

By Dan Peters | 18 March 2015

Local government leaders called for ‘greater levels of devolution’ after the West Yorkshire combi...

Budget 2015: West Yorkshire 'disappointed' by devolution deal

By Dan Peters | 18 March 2015

Chancellor George Osborne confirmed an agreement on a ‘new City Deal’ with the West Yorkshire com...

Council aids police with paedophile ring investigation

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Lambeth LBC said it is ‘determined’ to do all it can to hold offenders to account as police inves...

EXCLUSIVE: Call to share more data

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Leading lights in the Troubled Families programme have called for more data to be shared, with th...