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Care bosses defend children's care charges

By Jamie Hailstone | 15 August 2013

Care bosses have defended the use of charging for some aspects of children’s social care after Wo...

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Exclusive: Councils report delays to citizenship certificates

By Jamie Hailstone | 15 August 2013

The Home Office is failing to send councils citizenship certificates due to ‘technical issues’, w...

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Plan for centralised Government communications team

By Jonathan Werran | 14 August 2013

Ministers are considering plans to centralise 3,300 press officers working across government depa...

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Adoption agencies to get £16m extra funding

By MJ reporter | 14 August 2013

The Government has announced £16m extra funding for voluntary adoption agencies to help find new ...

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Call to share view on welfare reform

By MJ reporter | 14 August 2013

Government spending watchdogs have asked all English councils to share their experiences of estab...

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Demand for Goverment to review Wolverhampton funding allocation

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

The Government needs to take the blame for the £86m budget gap being faced by Wolverhampton City ...

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Pooled budget will aid social care collaboration

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

A vision of how English councils will work together with the NHS to spend £3.8bn of Government fu...

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Councils clamp down on tax fraud

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

Six councils are joining forces in an attempt to clamp down on people wrongly claiming a discount...

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More councils take up BT broadband

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 August 2013

Communications giant BT has strengthened its grip on the broadband market with three new county c...

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Priority areas for European funding identified

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 August 2013

The Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Serco Vocational Training have j...

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