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BUSINESS
Unison calls for windfall tax on PFI corporations
By Hiba Mahamadi | 19 February 2018
Trade union Unison has backed a Labour MP’s call for a windfall tax on private companies deliveri...
FINANCE
Service provision is healthy but not sustainable, warns report
By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 February 2018
Scottish councils will find it difficult to provide services at their current level, new data pub...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Councils 'close to collapse' despite extra cash offer
By Mark Conrad | 08 February 2018
Councils remain ‘perilously close’ to financial collapse despite an additional £166m to support s...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's services to be slashed over coming year, new research reveals
By Hiba Mahamadi | 08 February 2018
More than 50% of councils analysed in new research plan to cut spending on children’s services ov...
SOCIAL CARE
Crisis in social care workforce, report warns
By Mark Conrad | 08 February 2018
The care workforce crisis has been laid bare by a report that warned ministers were not tackling ...
SOCIAL CARE
Scottish homecare services under threat
By Hiba Mahamadi | 11 January 2018
Almost 40% of care at home services in Scotland handed back their contracts to local authorities ...
WHITEHALL
Pressure growing on DCLG as Fair Funding wait goes on
By Mark Conrad | 14 December 2017
Ahead of next week’s finance settlement, local government has been warned it faces a longer-than-...
BUSINESS
South Somerset and Civica extend contract
By Hiba Mahamadi | 13 December 2017
South Somerset DC has awarded an £800,000, five-year contract to outsourcing service Civica to ex...
FINANCE
Frugal authorities may be left exposed to more cuts
By Heather Jameson and Jamie Hailstone | 15 November 2017
It is a ‘tragic truth’ that local government’s ability to deal with cuts has left it vulnerable t...
CRIME
Mayors call for end to police cuts
By Hiba Mahamadi | 14 November 2017
Mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan have called on chancellor Philip Hammond to end cuts to police...
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