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FINANCE
Government must heed children warnings in finance settlement
By Alison Michalska | 12 December 2017
Alison Michalska claims children’s services are becoming a blue light service as she warns the co...
FINANCE
Child protection inquiry figures double in a decade
By Sam Clayden | 12 December 2017
Councils are undertaking more than double the number of child protection investigations than they...
FINANCE
Transfer vacant land to community businesses, new research urges
By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 December 2017
Councils in England could unlock £7bn if they transferred ownership of vacant land and buildings ...
FINANCE
Scots must boost productivity to pay for public services
By Heather Jameson | 12 December 2017
The Scottish Government will need a clear plan to support growth and productivity in its Budget t...
FINANCE
We need a system of fairer funding fit for the 21st Century
By Nick Rushton | 12 December 2017
Responding to recent challenges to fair funding lobbying efforts by the County Councils' Network,...
FINANCE
Councillors to get pay rise amid budget cuts
By Victor Smart | 12 December 2017
Norfolk CC has voted a big increase in councillors allowances at a time when services across the ...
WHITEHALL
LGA calls for fairer funding in finance settlement
11 December 2017
The Local Government Association has warned that council are heading towards a ‘funding cliff-edg...
FINANCE
The pressure on district finances is as real as other authorities
By Jill Penn | 06 December 2017
This is a period of fast-moving change. Jill Penn looks at where this leaves district finances an...
EDUCATION
Corridors of power
05 December 2017
Conservative Party special advisers Simon Fortescue-Smythe and Julian Ponsonby are speculating ab...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Beecham launches scathing attack on Budget
By Mark Conrad | 05 December 2017
Former chair of the Local Government Association, Lord Beecham, has launched a scathing attack on...
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