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Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

Housing and infrastructure in doubt after funding pulled

By Martin Ford | 17 July 2023

New housing, roads, public transport, green spaces, schools and jobs have been plunged into doubt...

Fears over ICB cuts impact

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2023

Planned cuts to staffing levels risk driving Integrated Care Boards (ICB) to look inwards over th...

Minister reminds Brum over B&B usage

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2023

Housing minister Felicity Buchan has reminded Birmingham City Council to avoid using bed and brea...

Another council halts TikTok use

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2023

Another council has decided to stop using TikTok despite data showing more than 23 million people...

Call for Oflog independence

By Dan Peters | 14 July 2023

The Government should grant its new performance body Oflog the ‘independence it will need to succ...

Lloyd: Pandemic simulation kept secret from sector

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2023

Lessons from a Whitehall-run pandemic simulation exercise in 2016 were kept secret from local gov...

EXCLUSIVE: LGA warns Hastings about possible section 114

By Dan Peters | 11 July 2023

Hastings BC may be forced to issue a section 114 notice this financial year unless it makes massi...

EXCLUSIVE: Sector panel quietly sidelined by DLUHC

By Dan Peters | 11 July 2023

A panel of experts brought together in an attempt to tackle key issues facing the sector appears ...

Overton rejects breakaway Green group idea

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2023

The re-elected leader of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) independents has rejected the i...

Councils left in lurch over housing benefit assurance

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2023

Scores of councils have been left in the lurch after failing to find an auditor to carry out thei...