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WHITEHALL

'Devastating implications' warning over data threat

By Dan Peters | 30 May 2023

A Government threat to suspend council access to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data will...

WHITEHALL

Fraud flaw in energy scheme

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

The Energy Bill Support Scheme (EBSS) announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when he was chancel...

BUSINESS

Councils wait for Capita reassurance

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

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

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

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...

FINANCE

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...

WHITEHALL

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

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...

WHITEHALL

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 ...

HEALTH

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...

FINANCE

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...

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