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Councils struggling to meet government housing targets

By Dan Peters | 23 June 2015

Considerable investment and a shift in mindset in the housing sector is needed for councils to de...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Children at risk of abuse soars by 80%

By Dan Peters | 18 June 2015

The number of children at risk of abuse has soared by 80% since 2002, figures released yesterday ...

FINANCE

LGO: New ombudsman should have beefed up powers

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has called for a new public services ombudsman to be given p...

WHITEHALL

Experts criticise 'bizarre' pensions decisions split

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Spreading responsibility for local government pensions across two ministers has been labelled ‘bi...

FINANCE

Bonds agency could fund service transformation

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Councils looking to transform public services could obtain funding by using the new municipal bon...

HEALTH

Call for Better Care Fund 'on steroids' but uncertainty remains

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Senior officials leading national work on the Better Care Fund (BCF) are in the dark about the Go...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: LGA ignores calls for forced peer reviews

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Whitehall inspectors could march into councils that refuse to engage with sector-led improvement ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Shoesmith calls on social workers to fight back against prison threat

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Social workers need to defeat the argument that jailing public servants for failing to protect ch...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Combined authority path could be 'rocky'

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

A ‘rocky road’ stands in the way of the creation of more combined authorities, an academic has wa...

FINANCE

Services under threat as Budget looms

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Councils have warned that further cuts will mean salami slicing will have to be replaced by axing...

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