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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall to increase use of 'external experts' to aid failing children's services

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

External experts will be increasingly called in to support weak or failing children’s social care...

FINANCE

Complex accounts 'obstacle to public scrutiny'

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

Finance chiefs have been lobbying the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) over...

FINANCE

Legal panel paves way for LGPS framework expansion

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

A panel of legal advisors have been appointed as the number of frameworks available for members o...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Hampshire Community Bank project goes ahead

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

Backers of what is hoped will be the first community bank of its kind in the country believe the ...

CORE CITIES

West Yorkshire still waiting for devolution Christmas present

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

West Yorkshire and the Leeds city region are still waiting for a devolution deal that had been ex...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The mayor the merrier?

By Dan Peters | 12 January 2015

Dan Peters talks to leading local government figures to assess whether directly-elected mayors ar...

DEVOLUTION

Minister: Mayor and commissioner role could be combined

By Dan Peters | 12 January 2015

New directly elected mayors could take over the role of police and crime commissioners (PCCs), ho...

FINANCE

Drive towards self-sustainability

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2015

South Staffordshire has gone the extra mile to ensure local growth and guarantee authority is wel...

FINANCE

Senior posts to be axed at Redbridge

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2015

Three senior posts could be axed at Redbridge LBC less than three years after the last major revi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Camden urges London councils to lobby for tourism tax

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2015

The idea of councils being allowed to impose a tourist levy to help plug funding gaps has been re...

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