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Articles by Emily Twinch
Website of latest council to be hit by cyber attack working again
By Emily Twinch | 04 November 2024
Portsmouth City Council’s website is working as normal again today after it became the latest of ...
Sure Start Centres reduced criminal offending, says IFS
By Emily Twinch | 23 October 2024
Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% ...
Rayner to be handed £1bn for council housing in Budget, reports suggest
By Emily Twinch | 21 October 2024
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will be handed £1bn in next week’s Budget as she plans to dou...
London Councils calls for housing allowance increase
By Emily Twinch | 17 October 2024
London Councils is urging ministers to update housing allowance rates annually to provide better ...
Auditors for Redditch and Bromsgrove quit
By Emily Twinch | 15 October 2024
Ernst & Young have taken on auditing Redditch BC and Bromsgrove DC's accounts mid-financial year ...
Councils join project to explore preventative spending
By Emily Twinch | 14 October 2024
Four councils have joined a two-year project aimed at coming up with a methodology for calculatin...
LGPS pooling 'must be done in orderly way'
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
The pooling of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets into eight organisations should be d...
Children's services need cash injection amid rising cases, says LGA
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
Children’s services in England need an ‘emergency cash injection’ in the Budget to deal with ‘rec...
Mayors can relieve council pressures, says report
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
Mayoral combined authorities (MCAs) can help with long-standing policy challenges in public servi...
Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...
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