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FINANCE

LGA's bonds agency given green light

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2014

Plans for the UK’s first municipal bonds agency have been given the green light to enter the laun...

BUSINESS

Web-based system to cut council costs by £3m

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Islington LBC is on track to reduce its core finance costs by 40% as it battles to reduce its con...

FINANCE

SOLACE/CIPFA deal aims to add more financial 'variety'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Two officer-led local government organisations are in talks to develop a finance-based sector-led...

PENSIONS

Pension firms' partnership

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Lancashire County Pension Fund and the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) could be expanded in...

WHITEHALL

'Hold out' for better devo deal, councils told

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged council chiefs in talks over devolution to ‘hold out for a ...

COUNCILLORS

Lancashire ex-chief's anger against 'false allegations'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

The ex-chief executive of Lancashire CC would have stayed to clear his name against ‘false allega...

FINANCE

'Boost pay to recoup cash'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

A substantial increase in local government pay would recoup millions for the Treasury, trade unio...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

NHS England panned for downgrading BCF director

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

NHS England has been criticised after it downgraded the programme director for the Better Care Fu...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Axe fears over top-slice

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

The future of sector-led improvement hangs in the balance with fears that Whitehall’s grant to th...

WHITEHALL

Wilshaw: Council control of schools debate is yesterday's argument

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has suggested the debate over whether schools should be under loc...

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