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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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