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WHITEHALL

Plans floated to tackle secure children's home shortage

By Dan Peters | 21 November 2022

Plans have been floated for a secure children’s home that could be used by councils across London.

WHITEHALL

Solace: Capital spending will shrink overall

By Dan Peters | 21 November 2022

Capital spending in local government will still shrink overall despite chancellor Jeremy Hunt dec...

WHITEHALL

Council's 'bankruptcy' warning over Chagossian influx

By Dan Peters | 16 November 2022

A council has warned it could be forced to effectively declare bankruptcy if it has to fund housi...

WHITEHALL

Tories push ministers to scrap 'top-down housing targets'

By Dan Peters | 16 November 2022

Conservative backbenchers are pushing ministers to scrap ‘top-down housing targets imposed by the...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Climbing high together

By Dan Peters | 16 November 2022

Jonathan Stephenson tells Dan Peters about the demands and benefits of working between two counci...

COUNCILLORS

Glasgow strikes equal pay deal

By Dan Peters | 10 November 2022

Glasgow City Council has struck a deal with groups representing around 19,000 current and former ...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Gove to push ahead with light-touch intervention plans

By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022

Senior civil servants are expected to push ahead with plans to introduce more light-touch financi...

WHITEHALL

Ministers expected to stick with referendum threshold

By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022

Whitehall officials are not expecting returning local government secretary Michael Gove to make c...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked blackout plans warn people could die

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2022

People could die in an energy blackout as local government services supporting vulnerable people ...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils could resurrect legal action over asylum

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2022

Government attempts to fix the UK’s ‘broken’ asylum system could be hit as West Midlands mets thr...

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