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EXCLUSIVE: Warsi rails against Government's Prevent overhaul

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2023

Ex-communities minister Baroness Warsi has attacked the Government’s proposed reform of Prevent, ...

Calls for renewed effort to tackle planning 'image problem'

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2023

Calls have been made for a renewed effort to attract more planners into the profession as it cont...

Fresh pension pooling call

By Dan Peters | 10 February 2023

A senior local government pensions figure has called for the sector to bring more assets into poo...

Tensions over children's social workers

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2023

London Councils has launched a broadside at neighbouring South East councils for luring children’...

Treasury tightens grip over DLUHC spending

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2023

New capital projects by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) will now...

Braverman to overhaul Prevent

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2023

Home secretary Suella Braverman has accepted all 34 recommendations to overhaul Prevent after a r...

Food waste delay 'nailed down'

By Dan Peters | 06 February 2023

Government proposals for every household to receive separate weekly food waste collections from t...

Sacked director withdraws tribunal claim

By Dan Peters | 02 February 2023

A South Somerset DC director sacked after allegedly using furloughed council staff to work on her...

Auditor calls for national changes after public interest report

By Dan Peters | 01 February 2023

External auditor Grant Thornton has called for national changes after cataloguing a ‘toxic’ cultu...

Star Hobson council still inadequate, Ofsted finds

By Dan Peters | 01 February 2023

Returning inspectors have judged Bradford City Council’s children’s services to still be inadequa...