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ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Connection problems

By Nigel Lynn | 14 February 2017

Digital transformation is helping to revolutionise the way many older people live, but Nigel Lynn...

WHITEHALL

'No council tax to fix social care gap'

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 February 2017

The Welsh Government has ruled out using council tax to help plug the devolved nation’s social ca...

FINANCE

Reading's finance plans 'fragile'

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2017

Reading Council’s financial position has been described as fragile with ‘some very significant ri...

FINANCE

DCLG accused of abdicating responsibility over council cuts

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2017

National Audit Office boss Sir Amyas Morse has accused central government of an ‘out of sight, ou...

BUSINESS

Authority urged to report on closure of social care firm

By Mark Conrad | 08 February 2017

A senior councillor at Aylesbury Vale DC has urged Buckinghamshire CC to publish an internal repo...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: 'It's make or break time' - annual finance survey

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2017

Results of the latest LGiU/The MJ annual finance survey lead to stark warnings on the fiscal futu...

FINANCE

Surrey CC scraps plans for 15% council tax referendum

By Sam Clayden | 06 February 2017

Surrey CC has scrapped plans to hold a referendum on whether to increase council tax by 15%.

FINANCE

Directors call for £1bn emergency funding

By Dan Peters | 30 January 2017

Councils could fail to meet to meet their statutory duties without ‘emergency’ government funding...

FINANCE

Warning over future for care home providers

By Dan Peters | 25 January 2017

Councils have called for ‘urgent and genuinely new’ funding for social care amid fresh warnings t...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Porter promoted to deputy

24 January 2017

Luton Council’s corporate director for customer and commercial services, Robin Porter, has been p...