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FINANCE
Fears raised as uncertainty clouds funding settlement
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
Government plans to create financial certainty through a four-year funding settlement have been u...
FINANCE
Change the settlement or face financial failure
By Heather Jameson | 19 January 2016
Minor tweaks to the local government finance settlement won't be enough to stop swathes of counci...
FINANCE
IoW to challenge finance settlement
By Tom Bridge | 19 January 2016
A legal challenge could be launched by Isle of Wight Council over government funding cutbacks fol...
WHITEHALL
Corridors of power
19 January 2016
Conservative head office junior adviser Sebastian Posh-Brightly is talking to veteran Tory MP, Ji...
WHITEHALL
Fury over Whitehall's failure to consult on funding formula
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
The Government’s ‘unprecedented’ decision not to carry out a technical consultation before this y...
FINANCE
Birmingham leader lines up West Midlands sovereign wealth fund
By Thomas Bridge | 19 January 2016
Birmingham City Council’s new leader has met with Greg Clark to discuss the creation of a West Mi...
FINANCE
Cameron's Tory council leader tables worst-case scenario cuts
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
The Conservative leader of prime minister David Cameron’s council has risked reigniting the row o...
HEALTH
Former DCLG director named as top health civil servant
By Sam Clayden | 15 January 2016
A former Department for Communities and Local Government director has been named as the new Depar...
FINANCE
Clark: S151 officers to monitor care precept use
By Sam Clayden | 14 January 2016
Greg Clark has allayed concerns that councils would not spend revenues raised from the 2% precept...
FINANCE
What happens when business rates run low?
By Heather Jameson | 13 January 2016
Reflecting on the finance settlement, Heather Jameson urges finance directors to get tough on usi...
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