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'Transparent process' wanted for top role

By Dan Peters | 21 April 2015

Conservatives on Tower Hamlets LBC have called for an end to the impasse over the hiring of the c...

Developer decision boosts neighbourhood planning

By Dan Peters | 21 April 2015

Neighbourhood planning has been boosted after a developer withdrew a legal challenge.

Costs 'could increase' under Pickles' DIP changes

By Dan Peters | 20 April 2015

A council chief executive has criticised communities secretary Eric Pickles’ latest attack on ‘to...

Directors told not to be constrained by austerity

By Dan Peters | 17 April 2015

Adult social care directors have been told austerity should not restrict their commitment to inno...

Directors face a fight for cash in their own councils

By Dan Peters | 16 April 2015

Adult social care directors face a ‘fight’ within their local authorities to have the cost of the...

Care chiefs looking to charge for services

By Dan Peters | 16 April 2015

Directors of adults social services are increasingly look at charging for services for carers, a ...

IFS praise over council care cash

By Dan Peters | 16 April 2015

Social care has been ‘pretty consistently’ protected by councils, analysis by a leading economic ...

Care chief calls for cash to be protected

By Dan Peters | 16 April 2015

Social care funding must be protected and aligned with the NHS, the incoming president of the Ass...

Tower Hamlets impasse over senior appointment

By Dan Peters | 14 April 2015

Efforts to hire the most senior officer at Tower Hamlets LBC are ‘stuck at an impasse’ after riva...

Ukip to field 'record' number of council candidates

By Dan Peters | 13 April 2015

Ukip will mobilise a record 5,000 candidates in 278 local council elections next month, leader Ni...