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Budget 2013 - the verdict

20 March 2013

The MJ provides rolling coverage of chancellor George Osborne's 2013 Budget announcement.

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Budget 2013: more spending round cuts needed by 2015

By Jonathan Werran | 20 March 2013

Chancellor George Osborne today told MPs the coalition had cut the deficit by a third since 2010,...

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Budget 2013: Osborne seeks to boost home ownership

By Laura Sharman | 20 March 2013

Plans to boost the housing market and enable more people to purchase their own home have been unv...

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Budget 2013 - the impact on local government

20 March 2013

Local government seems likely to be given protection from additional £2.5bn Whitehall spending sw...

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Local government bears brunt of job losses again, ONS shows

By Jonathan Werran | 20 March 2013

Local government shed 32,000 posts in the last quarter of 2012 compared with a 4,000 fall in the ...

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Ofsted urged to scrap plans to monitor councils' school improvement role

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Council chiefs strongly urge Ofsted to axe ‘inappropriate’ proposals to scrutinise authority-deli...

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Brighton & Hove vows no-eviction 'bedroom tax' policy

By Jamie Hailstone | 19 March 2013

Brighton and Hove City Council’s ruling Green Party administration has pledged to not evict any c...

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Services will be boosted by pooling budgets, says NAO

By Jonathan Werran | 19 March 2013

Government should learn lessons from the ‘whole place’ community budget pilots in pioneering bett...

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NFI saves public purse £1bn

By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2013

National Fraud Initiative has helped prevent more than £1bn of public money being lost to fraud, ...

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Schools 'under strain' funding 250,000 new places, watchdog warns

By Jonathan Werran | 15 March 2013

NAO report questions if funding allocations to local authorities are sufficient to cope with lar...

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Corporate Director – Adults & Health

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Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job

Newham London Borough Council

Assistant Director, People

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Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job

Essex County Council

Executive Director (Children’s Services)

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Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job

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