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FINANCE
Deprived councils took biggest spending hit, JRF report shows
By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015
Local government budget cuts - which saw the sector’s spending power diminished by more than a qu...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
The signal and the noise
By Jonathan Carr-West | 10 March 2015
After Rotherham and Oxfordshire’s serious case reviews, we must be cautious about instigating a b...
SOCIAL CARE
Pickles hails troubled families 'triumph'
By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2015
Nearly nine-out-of ten of the 117,910 chaotic households in England targeted for intervention und...
WHITEHALL
Pickles in council charges crackdown
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 March 2015
Eric Pickles has gone on the offensive over council charges, with new guidance on car parking and...
FINANCE
London and the North bore brunt of budget cuts, IFS study shows
By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2015
London boroughs and councils in the North East and North West experienced the largest per-head sp...
WHITEHALL
Parishes answer planning problems
By Elisabeth Skinner | 05 March 2015
James Derounian and Elisabeth Skinner advocate local authority and community involvement – all at...
FINANCE
Pickles welcomes Cipfa's council tax survey
By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2015
Average council tax bills across England are set to increase by a mere 1% in 2015, public finance...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Councils warned against complacency over CSE
03 March 2015
The interim chief executive of Rotherham MBC has warned the council’s child sexual exploitation (...
FINANCE
Pledge to reform finances
By Dan Peters | 03 March 2015
Labour will race to reform the local government finance system by the end of this year if the par...
DCLG
Ministers call time on Greenwich freesheet
By Jonathan Werran | 03 March 2015
Secretary of State Eric Pickles has served a direction against Greenwich RLBC, forcing it to cut ...
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