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Fraudster took £1m from Westminster pension fund

By Martin Ford | 25 January 2019

A council worker who defrauded a pension fund for more than £1m has today been sentenced to seven...

Lord Patten questions council officers' training

By Martin Ford | 25 January 2019

Veteran business leaders should be brought in to manage councils, a Tory grandee has suggested.

Lords warn services face 'evisceration' without radical change

By Martin Ford | 25 January 2019

Lords have warned ministers of the ‘evisceration’ of local government unless funding is overhauled.

Tees Valley votes for £40m airport deal

By Martin Ford | 24 January 2019

Tees Valley Combined Authority has given the green light to take a local airport back into public...

Wandsworth faces insourcing demand by striking workers

By Martin Ford | 24 January 2019

Workers have demanded parking enforcement at Wandsworth LBC be brought in-house as four days of i...

Leijser to leave behind 'strong' Isles of Scilly

By Martin Ford | 23 January 2019

Chief executive Theo Leijser has announced he will be leaving the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

Controversial Prevent strategy to be reviewed

By Martin Ford | 23 January 2019

An independent review of the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme will take place, ministers hav...

Government defends Right to Buy against call for abolition

By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019

A top Marsham Street official has defended the Government’s Right to Buy policy as ‘good value fo...

Government concern over investments focused on two or three councils

By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019

Marsham Street is ‘worried’ about ‘two or three’ councils’ commercial ventures, civil servants ha...

Whitehall stalled for year prior to Northamptonshire intervention

By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019

The Government waited for more than a year before intervening over Northamptonshire CC’s financia...