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The Government's actions 'don't match the words'
By Christina McAnea | 26 October 2020
Rather than recognising the role of council workers during COVID-19, the Government has prioritis...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Barking & Dagenham offers same-day testing to key workers
By Ann McGauran | 26 October 2020
Barking & Dagenham LBC is thought to have become the first in England to set up a same-day COVID ...
LEGISLATION
Councils gain COVID enforcement powers
By Martin Ford | 23 October 2020
Councils are to be given new powers to issue businesses with improvement notices and close premis...
WHITEHALL
Burnham calls for national-local reset
By Dan Peters | 22 October 2020
Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor Andy Burnham has called for a ‘reset’ between national and loca...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Levelling up or pushing down?
By Martin Jones | 22 October 2020
Stoke-on-Trent has been the victim of the repeated failure of regional economic policy, say Steve...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Chancellor announces new support package for businesses
By Ann McGauran | 22 October 2020
The chancellor Rishi Sunak has increased support for workers and jobs hit by tougher COVID-19 res...
FINANCE
Jenrick announces allocations for £1bn council funding
By Dan Peters | 22 October 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed allocations for individual councils from ...
SOCIAL CARE
Advocacy services remain crucial despite COVID pressures
21 October 2020
Councils must ensure social care providers understand that the legal obligations to refer to advo...
FINANCE
This is not devolution – this is not even centralism
By Heather Jameson | 21 October 2020
‘Once the poster-child for devolution, Manchester is now being treated as the bad boy of politics...
WHITEHALL
Coronavirus leads to scrapping of three-year Spending Review
By Dan Peters | 21 October 2020
Plans to create a three-year settlement for public spending have been abandoned as latest figures...
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