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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

'Keep children's social care within the sector'

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Children’s services directors have insisted that support for improvement should be sector-owned a...

WHITEHALL

Think tank: LGPS scheme 'mismanaged'

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Immediate structural reforms need to be made to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to avo...

HOUSING

'Don't axe the NHB' councils tell Labour

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

District chiefs have hit out at Labour Party proposals to axe the New Homes Bonus (NHB), claiming...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Pension funds coalition to lobby gas and oil giants over climate change

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Council pension funds are among a coalition of investors that will lobby two of the world’s bigge...

FINANCE

Councils call for ratepayers' 'duty to notify' over business properties

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Councils have called on the Government to introduce a statutory duty on ratepayers to inform the ...

FINANCE

CIPFA defends its 'campaigning' style

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

The Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has defended its shift to make...

FINANCE

Tories split as Pickles fights for 1% referendum cap

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Local authorities are facing a Christmas headache if Eric Pickles wins an internal party row to s...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Bolton boss expected to make Lambeth switch

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2014

The chief executive of Bolton MBC is expected to be approved as the next boss of Lambeth LBC late...

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...

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