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FINANCE
Pressure mounts on 1% pay cap
By Dan Peters | 26 July 2017
Local government employers are contemplating a two-year pay offer as they battle to keep rises af...
FINANCE
DoLS delays lead to calls for reforms
By Dan Peters | 26 July 2017
Fresh calls have been made for urgent reforms to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) sys...
FINANCE
Housing company saves council £2.5m in a year
By Dan Peters | 26 July 2017
Enfield LBC’s independent company that buys family homes to provide an alternative to costly nigh...
FINANCE
Call for Universal Credit transition funding
By Hiba Mahamadi | 25 July 2017
The Government should create a transition funding pot to help councils manage the rollout of Univ...
FINANCE
Councils clamber for post-Grenfell funding
By Hiba Mahamadi | 25 July 2017
The Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association has called for Whitehall to fund 'e...
FINANCE
Temporary accommodation crisis places fresh pressure on budgets
By Mark Conrad | 24 July 2017
Councils are housing an extra secondary school’s worth of homeless children each month, placing f...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Edinburgh gets £1.1bn City Deal
By Laura Sharman | 21 July 2017
A £1.1bn City Deal for Edinburgh and south-east Scotland was signed yesterday.
FINANCE
Markets can be fickle beasts. How can councils mitigate risk?
By Malcolm Morley | 21 July 2017
The jury is still out on whether councils are as good as they need to be for their latest commerc...
BUSINESS
Clark: Local leadership priority in industrial strategy
By Hiba Mahamadi | 20 July 2017
The Government needs to focus on place-based leadership, the business secretary has said.
WHITEHALL
Hughes and Goldsworthy join new finance commission
By Dan Peters | 20 July 2017
An ex-boss of Birmingham City Council has been appointed to a commission charged with finding way...
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- Cornwall silent on exit payments after chief executive and finance boss quit
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- Government told of rising complaints at Dudley after Best Value exit
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