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LGiU: councils should step up to personal debt crisis

By Jonathan Werran | 21 January 2014

Local authorities should stand up as community leaders to tackle a growing personal debt crisis a...

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Child abuse inquiry gets under way

By MJ reporter | 16 January 2014

The biggest public inquiry into child abuse ever held in the UK has started in Northern Ireland.

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Two Director Roles

16 January 2014

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Contractors fail to deliver on key asylum targets

By Jonathan Werran | 15 January 2014

Contracts to find homes for asylum seekers have been hampered by a failure to negotiate with loca...

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Clearing the decks

By Dan Corry | 15 January 2014

With election fever on the horizon, Dan Corry highlights the trend at this stage for ministers to...

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Whitehall is 'worst part' of being chief

By Jamie Hailstone | 09 January 2014

Working with central government is the worst thing about being a council chief executive, accordi...

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The year ahead for local government

By Heather Jameson | 08 January 2014

Forget the mince pies and all the Christmas trimmings, The MJ looks at what’s in store for local ...

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Care bosses welcome new Government rules

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 January 2014

Care bosses have hailed new government rules as a ‘step forward to a safer future’ for children i...

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Housing chief: Benefit cap has caused significant homelessness increase

By MJ Correspondent | 24 December 2013

The benefit cap has caused a ‘significant increase’ in homelessness in Brent, the London borough’...

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Funding to push Shared Lives care

By Laura Sharman | 20 December 2013

The expansion of family-based care is expected to save local authorities and the NHS £50m a year.