Dclg

By Dan Peters | 11 November 2014

Having replaced the Regional Development Agencies in 2010, the Local Enterprise Partnerships have...

WHITEHALL

Councils build up reserves for cuts to come

By Heather Jameson | 11 November 2014

Councils are building up a war chest of cash in the run up to the spending review, to protect the...

HEALTH

Watchdog criticises Better Care Fund planning

By Jamie Hailstone | 11 November 2014

Care bosses have called for better long-term financial planning following a report by the Nationa...

Pickles 'deeply honoured' to win award

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2014

Eric Pickles has said he is ‘deeply honoured’ to win an award for representing and working well w...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Manchester deal opens floodgates to devolution

By Heather Jameson | 04 November 2014

Government plans to hand extra powers to Manchester under a directly-elected ‘metro-mayor’ could ...

FINANCE

Civil service devolution?

By Katherine Kerswell | 03 November 2014

Whitehall could do worse than look to Scotland’s example in creating a successfully devolved civi...

WHITEHALL

East Midlands joins devolution calls

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 November 2014

Local authorities in the East Midlands have called for greater powers from Whitehall as the devol...

HEALTH

We should embrace early accounts closure

By Andy Mack | 29 October 2014

Early closure of accounts is the future, writes Andy Mack, a director with Grant Thornton and the...

ENVIRONMENT

Building a very 21st century garden city

By Dr Patrick Clarke | 28 October 2014

Dr Patrick Clarke argues that it is possible to create new environments that draw on the characte...

DCLG

DCLG improving claims NAO

By MJ reporter | 28 October 2014

Levels of staff engagement at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) have mad...

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