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BUSINESS
Opposition defeated over plan to bring legal team back in house
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014
Opposition calls for Barnet LBC’s legal department to be brought back in-house after a report cri...
WHITEHALL
'This is no way to run public finances'
By Heather Jameson | 04 November 2014
National politicians should ‘come clean’ about cuts in the run up to the General Election or they...
WHITEHALL
Fierce reaction to staff salaries plan
By Jonathan Werran | 04 November 2014
Government proposals to claw back the salaries of senior council staff who find work within the s...
PENSIONS
Parry-Jones payout gets final clearance from WAO
By MJ reporter | 04 November 2014
Welsh spending watchdogs have cleared Pembrokeshire CC’s exit payment for former chief executive ...
WHITEHALL
DfE 'failed to establish councils' school spending responsibilities'
By Jonathan Werran | 04 November 2014
The Department for Education (DfE) has failed to clearly set out what roles and responsibilities ...
FINANCE
Pickles proposes Tower Hamlets intervention
By Dan Peters | 04 November 2014
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has insisted his proposed Government intervention package for ...
HEALTH
We should embrace early accounts closure
By Andy Mack | 29 October 2014
Early closure of accounts is the future, writes Andy Mack, a director with Grant Thornton and the...
BUSINESS
Squeeze on audit timetable risks strain on councils and auditors
By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014
Concerned councils fear their finance functions will be put under further strain by plans to sque...
DCLG
Councils failed to detect rise in non-benefit fraud
By MJ reporter | 21 October 2014
Some 39 councils, among them 35 districts, failed to detect a single instance of non-benefit frau...
PENSIONS
Auditors to probe Pembrokeshire chief's payoff
By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014
Welsh spending watchdogs are poised to scrutinise the severance deal of Pembrokeshire County Coun...
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