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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...

Chief defends action on 'persistent' homeless

By Dan Peters | 10 April 2015

Oxford City Council’s chief executive Peter Sloman has denied that a proposed order that could le...

Groups poised to bid for share of sector-led improvement cash

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2015

Local government groups are lining up to help deliver sector-led improvement if plans to open it ...

Power-seeking boroughs 'are no threat to devolution'

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2015

Senior London Councils figures have insisted the eight boroughs seeking new powers for their sub-...