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Ofsted hits back at criticism

By Dan Peters | 03 December 2014

Ofsted has insisted its inspections must continue to sit alongside sector-led improvement despite...

Councils 'were close' to dumping the BCF

By Dan Peters | 02 December 2014

The Local Government Association (LGA) considered walking away from the Better Care Fund (BCF) pr...

Municipal bonds agency interest in Islamic finance

By Dan Peters | 01 December 2014

The Local Government Association’s (LGA) municipal bonds agency (MBA) could make use of Islamic f...

Call for further Pickles intervention in Tower Hamlets

By Dan Peters | 01 December 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has been urged to intervene in Tower Hamlets LBC’s arrangement...

Kerslake defends Whitehall knowledge of councils

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2014

The most senior official at the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has defende...

CIPFA demands Barnett formula review

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2014

The Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy’s (CIPFA) chief executive has demanded...

Extra funding for fraud clampdown

By Dan Peters | 27 November 2014

A range of council-led projects to claw back billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money lost every ye...

Call for more community provision post-Winterbourne

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2014

A report into the care of people with learning difficulties has called for the ramping up of comm...

Pioneering councils to invest in LGA MBA

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2014

Councils that will be among the first to invest in the Local Government Association’s (LGA) new m...

'We won't force councils to join CAs' says Benn

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2014

Councils reluctant to form combined authorities will not be forced into the move, shadow communit...