EXCLUSIVE: LGA improvement cash could be slashed
October 18, 2018
Smith Square’s top-slice funding could be slashed under plans being considered by Whitehall over fears the sector-led improvement regime is not delivering good value.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs warning to May if austerity not lifted
October 16, 2018
More councils face scaling back services to a minimum statutory offer if prime minister Theresa May reneges on her promise of ‘better times ahead,’ local authority chief executives have warned.
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SOLACE Summit: Councils are at back of austerity queue
October 17, 2018
Councils are at the ‘end of the queue’ when it comes to receiving funding from the Treasury, the chief executive of Brighton & Hove Council has said.
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Preston City Council asked to support second Brexit referendum
October 17, 2018
Preston City Council is to be asked to support a second referendum on Brexit this week following a motion put forward by Liberal Democrat councillor Neil Darby.
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Rural Dorset councils to cut more than 200 management posts
October 17, 2018
Councils in rural Dorset are to cut more than 200 management posts, and the job losses could in time save between £6m and £8m a year.
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Casey: Involve councils in sorting Universal Credit
October 16, 2018
Whitehall must use the expertise of councils to sort out Universal Credit (UC), a former senior Government adviser has told The MJ.
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Dilnot in hypothecated tax warning
October 16, 2018
The solution to the social care funding crisis should emerge from general taxation and means-testing reforms instead of hypothecated taxes, Sir Andrew Dilnot has warned.
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North Somerset to benefit from new chief's 30-years experience
October 16, 2018
Gloucestershire CC’s director of finance, Jo Walker, will leave behind her 30-year career at the authority when she joins North Somerset Council as its new chief executive next year.
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Whitehall must spend £19bn annually to end austerity
October 16, 2018
Theresa May’s promise to bring an ‘end to austerity’ is incompatible with the chancellor’s aim of balancing the books by the mid-2020s, financial experts have said.
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