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BUSINESS

Council leader faces opposition to chief executive choice

By Mark Conrad | 11 September 2018

Lancashire CC’s leader is seeking to push through his preferred candidate for chief executive in ...

BUSINESS

Riordan calls for social media abuse clampdown

By Sam Clayden | 11 September 2018

One of local government’s most active Twitter users has urged social media sites to act to eradic...

WHITEHALL

Councils urged to clamp down on radical speakers

By Mark Conrad | 06 September 2018

Councils will be expected to ensure venues and resources they own do not provide a platform for e...

BUSINESS

Councils suffer disruption as recycling provider collapses

By Martin Ford | 06 September 2018

‘Emergency measures’ have been put in place following the collapse of a social enterprise providi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Full steam ahead for the West Midlands

By Heather Jameson | 04 September 2018

In a recent round table discussion organised by The MJ and energy and services company ENGIE, loc...

BUSINESS

The five steps to joint working

By Malcolm Morley | 04 September 2018

Prof Malcolm Morley gives his views on how to make joint working situations – whether in the publ...

BUSINESS

Combined authority chief to leave

By Dan Peters | 30 August 2018

The chief executive of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has announced his departu...

BUSINESS

File on arrested four passed to prosecutors

By Dan Peters | 23 August 2018

Police have finally submitted a file of evidence to prosecutors in relation to four local governm...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Council has taken 'too long' to improve

By Dan Peters | 23 August 2018

Reading Council has improved services for young people leaving care since an inadequate Ofsted in...

WHITEHALL

£1bn housing scheme fails to invest

By Mark Conrad | 21 August 2018

The housing sector’s changing ‘regulatory and funding backdrop’ has been blamed for the failure o...