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Gaming the cuts

By Joe Manning | 30 April 2013

Local authorities, must plan now if they are to lead places when further cuts bite, writes Joe M...

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Get to grips with gripes, grumbles and grievances

By Dr Jo Casebourne | 30 April 2013

Dr Jo Casebourne reports on how public services must be centred around citizens and responsive to...

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Herefordshire Council to cut 300 jobs

By Laura Sharman | 30 April 2013

Herefordshire Council has announced it will be cutting around 300 full-time equivalent jobs over ...

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Local audit plans will deliver £650m savings, Government insists

By Jonathan Werran | 29 April 2013

Government also rejects calls to have central procurement agency for audit and give NAO oversight...

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FUTURE FORUM 2013: Leadership strategy is key to progress

By Heather Jameson | 26 April 2013

'There is no normal,' Penna chief executive Julie Towers (pictured) told The MJ Future Forum. If ...

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FUTURE FORUM 2013: The shape of the next Spending Review

By Michael Burton | 26 April 2013

The MJ Future Forum discussed the shape of the next Spending Review and the impact on local gover...

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FUTURE FORUM 2013: Facing up to demand

By Michael Burton | 26 April 2013

As councils, in preparing for another difficult Spending Review, grapple with how to cut services...

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FUTURE FORUM 2013: Dispelling the relationship myths

By Heather Jameson | 26 April 2013

John Swinney, business development director of Carillion, told delegates at the Future Forum that...

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Unions to consider 1% pay offer to council staff

By Jonathan Werran | 25 April 2013

Town hall bosses have offered to prevent the local government pay freeze extending into a fourth ...

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28,000 town hall workers paid below minimum wage, union claims

By Jonathan Werran | 25 April 2013

Unison’s first annual Town Hall Poor List shows the lowest paid town hall staff earn 1p less than...

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