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EXCLUSIVE: Sector-led improvement is 'right approach for future'

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

The senior Local Government Association (LGA) officer in charge of improvement has insisted the s...

VIDEO: Ex-children's head sidelined over Rotherham CSE cases

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

A former director of children’s services at Rotherham MBC has been sidelined from her job in Aust...

BCF spend 'eroded by extra burdens'

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

Financial problems, winter pressures and extra burdens piled on the health service has eroded the...

Finance pundits urged to help LGA assist councils

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

Finance experts have been urged to sign up to help the Local Government Association (LGA) as it o...

Council cuts recycling to save local welfare scheme

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

A council that battled in court to keep local welfare funding has been forced to propose cuts to ...

LGPS invests in infrastructure

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

Two of the largest local government pension schemes (LGPS) in the UK have agreed to collaborate t...

Hardman softens over combined authority idea

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

The leader of Worcestershire CC has reversed his scepticism about forming a combined authority co...

Health and social care leaders call for government investment

By Dan Peters | 26 January 2015

Council and health leaders have called on the Government to invest money to protect the ‘chronica...

Leader: NHS problems could be sorted out by council directors

By Dan Peters | 23 January 2015

A good team of local government finance directors could easily sort out the problems in the NHS, ...

Chief executive struggling with post-2017 plan

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2015

The chief executive of Doncaster MBC has admitted that she is struggling to come up with a plan t...