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Councils wait for Capita reassurance

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

Unhappy councils are seeking assurances from revenues and benefits software supplier Capita there...

Chief executive peers can escape peer challenge scrutiny, LGA admits

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

Chief executives who volunteer as peers do not have to have a corporate peer challenge (CPC) in t...

Harris to take interest in Oflog-audit interplay

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

The Financial Reporting Council’s first director of local audit wants to take a closer look at th...

Questions raised over asylum hotels pledge

By Dan Peters and Mark Conrad | 23 May 2023

Senior council figures have questioned whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to end the use...

Whitehall lobbied to expand Oflog metrics

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2023

Parts of the sector are pushing Whitehall officials to expand new watchdog Oflog’s metrics despit...

Neighbourhood services key to community cohesion

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2023

The next Government has been urged to fund councils to carry out basic neighbourhood services to ...

Priory concerns 'heart-breaking'

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2023

Concerns that have emerged about the safety of patients and staff at a large mental health care p...

Audit backlog will slow account simplification work

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2023

Changes to simplify council accounts will not be implemented in the short-term due to a lack of c...

Labour pledges to reinstate housing targets

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2023

A Labour Government would reinstate housebuilding targets after a Conservative U-turn brought pro...

Councils call for Full Dispersal clarity

By Dan Peters | 16 May 2023

Home Office officials this week insisted the department’s Full Dispersal asylum policy was ‘well ...