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ECONOMIC GROWTH
Press pause on fair funding review
By Heather Jameson | 15 May 2019
Crippled by austerity and uncertainty, councils are financially paralysed and facing failure. Hea...
COUNCIL TAX
'Smart bins' and tax cuts could help increase recycling rates - report
By William Eichler | 13 May 2019
Local authorities could use ‘smart bins’ and council tax cuts to help drive up recycling rates in...
FINANCE
Localised council tax support schemes six years on
By Thomas Pope | 16 April 2019
Stuart Adam and Thomas Pope of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfS) estimate a quarter of the a...
COUNCIL TAX
London councils unite to reveal pockets of poverty
By Deven Ghelani | 15 April 2019
Deven Ghelani outlines how a collaboration involving 18 London boroughs has resulted in a data an...
COUNCIL TAX
Whitehall pledges to end aggressive council tax debt collection
By Laura Sharman | 11 April 2019
The way local authorities recover unpaid council tax is to be reviewed by the Government in a bid...
FINANCE
Plea to fund social care through insurance
By Martin Ford | 09 April 2019
A minister has been asked to consider mandatory insurance to ease social care funding pressures i...
COUNCIL TAX
Wales launches 'resident-focused' council tax reforms
By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 April 2019
Council tax debtors in Wales will no longer be at risk of imprisonment as part of a new initiativ...
WHITEHALL
Councils defend council tax hikes
By Heather Jameson | 27 March 2019
Councils have had ‘little choice’ but to raise council tax to protect local services, the Local G...
FINANCE
A taxing problem
By Heather Jameson | 21 March 2019
Heather Jameson looks at the latest report from the IFS’s Local Government Finance Commission, wh...
SOCIAL CARE
Waiting for Godot and the Social Care Green Paper
By Heather Jameson | 19 March 2019
Public finances are outperforming expectations, but the post-spring statement briefing from the I...
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West Oxfordshire District Council is seeking an exceptional and forward-thinking Director of Place Apply for this job
Registered Manager - Children's Home - WMF2725e
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This post is a crucial leadership role within the exciting new Westmorland and Furness children’s home service area. Apply for this job
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Westmorland and Furness Council will be an ambitious authority that will shape public services for the better Apply for this job
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