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WHITEHALL
Rural England Budget blow
By Dan Peters | 20 April 2017
Rural residents are paying an average of £87 more per head in council tax than their urban counte...
HUMAN RESOURCES
App for real-life recruitment
By David Johnston | 11 April 2017
Buckinghamshire CC is the first authority in the country to use a computer simulation in the recr...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
EXCLUSIVE: Child and adult care posts 'hardest to fill'
By Sam Clayden | 11 April 2017
Filling children and adult social care positions is causing upper-tier chief executives the bigge...
WHITEHALL
Scorn for Bourne's £1bn
By Dan Peters | 11 April 2017
Government figures claiming councils can raise £1bn through the social care precept are massively...
FINANCE
75% fail to meet fees deadline
By Mark Conrad | 11 April 2017
Almost three-quarters of councils did not notify providers of disability care about their 2016/17...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Judicial review over 'unlawful' funding
By William Eichler | 11 April 2017
The country’s largest representative body for adult social care providers has accused Essex CC of...
WHITEHALL
One in 10 slash social care spending by 25%
By Sam Clayden | 05 April 2017
One in 10 councils slashed adult social care spending by more than a quarter in six years, a new ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Local government 'not as sexy' as other sectors
By Dan Peters | 30 March 2017
Local government needs to brand itself better to attract staff, a director of recruitment firm Pe...
FINANCE
Is social care making progress?
By Jonathan Carr-West | 29 March 2017
Dr Jonathan Carr-West looks at the major questions the Government’s upcoming green paper on socia...
WHITEHALL
Councils 'best' to decide where to spend £2bn for social care
By Dan Peters | 29 March 2017
Councils have been told they are ‘best placed’ to decide how to spend the additional £2bn the Gov...
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