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FINANCE
Council tax hikes won't be enough, Hunt warned
By Martin Ford | 16 November 2022
Council tax rises alone will not be enough to bridge the gaping budget shortfalls faced by local ...
WHITEHALL
Ministers expected to stick with referendum threshold
By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022
Whitehall officials are not expecting returning local government secretary Michael Gove to make c...
COUNCIL TAX
Local response to crisis offers some hope
By Jonathan Carr-West | 26 October 2022
Dr Jonathan Carr-West says financially vulnerable councils are providing heroic levels of support...
LONDON COUNCILS
Prognosis grim but not incurable
By Cllr Georgia Gould | 24 October 2022
Cllr Georgia Gould says London’s boroughs have sprung into action to help those most at risk from...
COUNCIL TAX
Policy trumps PR
By Dan Corry | 19 October 2022
Dan Corry says the Prime Minister has perhaps now learned that if a policy is fundamentally poor,...
WHITEHALL
Sector split over finance settlement
By Mark Conrad | 11 October 2022
Financial uncertainty has split opinion over whether local government should push for a multi-yea...
COUNCIL TAX
Districts need certainty on funding
By Ian Miller | 10 October 2022
A two-year settlement – even if it is worse than previously envisaged – would at least allow some...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Mini-Budget: Government in 'early discussions' on investment zones
By Ann McGauran | 23 September 2022
The Government is in ‘early discussions with nearly 40 places’ including Tees Valley and the West...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Birmingham has no alternative other than to declare a cost of living crisis
By Cllr Ian Ward | 12 September 2022
As Birmingham City Council declares a cost of living emergency, leader Ian Ward says the Prime Mi...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
More grant funding, not devolved tax powers, will support levelling up
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 31 August 2022
Sir Stephen Houghton says fiscal devolution is not a ‘levelling up’ silver bullet – and a new ref...
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Camden Learning is a pioneering schools-led partnership bringing together 57 schools. Apply for this job
Assistant Director
£88,671 - £97,706 per annum
Our Assistant Directors have the resources and the authority they need to make our ambition a reality for children Apply for this job
Planning Manager (Development Management)
£49,817 to £53,051 per annum
You should be a member of the RTPI with an excellent knowledge and experience of planning and development control. Apply for this job
- Scottish local government system to be overhauled
- Wandsworth uses Communities Act to fight funding cuts
- Government rows back on plans to exclude councils from ICBs
- Calls to ease borrowing restrictions in wake of homes buying blitz
- Replumbing Britain's growth model: how to unlock place-based investment
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