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FINANCE

A leap into the unknown

By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017

Sam Clayden guides us through the biggest events of a tumultuous year.

FINANCE

Councillors to get pay rise amid budget cuts

By Victor Smart | 12 December 2017

Norfolk CC has voted a big increase in councillors allowances at a time when services across the ...

SOCIAL CARE

County wins legal battle over cost of local care

By Mark Conrad | 11 December 2017

Essex CC has successfully defeated a judicial review of the fees it pays to local care home opera...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Beecham launches scathing attack on Budget

By Mark Conrad | 05 December 2017

Former chair of the Local Government Association, Lord Beecham, has launched a scathing attack on...

HEALTH

LGA chief says BCF has 'come to end of its life'

By Sam Clayden | 01 December 2017

The Better Care Fund (BCF) in its current form has ‘come to the end of it’s life’, the chief exec...

HEALTH

Hopson: Ignore and challenge Westminster on health and care

By Sam Clayden | 01 December 2017

The NHS and local government should ‘ignore’ and ‘aggressively challenge’ unhelpful diktats from ...

WHITEHALL

Accuracy of DTOC figures questioned

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2017

Senior adult social care leaders have raised concerns with government over the accuracy of the da...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

National direction 'undermining partnership working'

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2017

Senior adult social care leaders have warned that ‘effective local partnership working is being u...

FINANCE

Jeremy Hunt urged to end 'snotty tones' amid NHS-led STP fears

By Sam Clayden | 28 November 2017

Six boroughs have blasted the health sector's 'crude understanding' of social care as they manoeu...

WHITEHALL

Budget 2017: Devolution and housing key planks in speech

By Heather Jameson | 22 November 2017

Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Budget has seen the chancellor unveil a raft of new devolution deal...

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Lead the future of multi-agency child protection in Cheshire East. Apply for this job

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