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WHITEHALL
Improvement budget cut 'risks vital work'
By William Eichler | 03 January 2017
Whitehall risks undermining council-maintained schools by dramatically cutting their improvement ...
FINANCE
Regenerating rundown communities
By Colin Crooks | 03 January 2017
The Government's plan to invest in rundown estates provides a prime opportunity for councils to i...
WHITEHALL
Dorset councils to push forward with two unitary option
By Dan Peters | 23 December 2016
Dorset’s nine councils are preparing to ask communities secretary Sajid Javid to be scrapped and ...
FINANCE
Bagley leaves Slough after absence
By Dan Peters | 23 December 2016
Slough Council’s boss has left after six months of ‘stress’ during which her future hung in the air.
FINANCE
'Good' finance settlement for Welsh councils
By Dan Peters | 21 December 2016
Welsh councils should use this year’s ‘good settlement’ to ‘plan for the harder choices which wil...
WHITEHALL
May defends social care precept
By Laura Sharman | 21 December 2016
Theresa May has defended the decision to allow councils to increase council tax by 6% over the ne...
FINANCE
Number of late auditor opinions increases
By Sam Clayden | 20 December 2016
The proportion of council accounts that auditors were unable to issue timely opinions on has incr...
WHITEHALL
PAC: Government overstated Troubled Families effectiveness
By William Eichler | 20 December 2016
The Government has ‘overstated’ the effectiveness of its Troubled Families programme and been ‘ev...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
MPs raise concerns over devolution
By William Eichler | 19 December 2016
The Government has failed to clearly define its objectives for devolution in England and must imp...
FINANCE
Pressure pushes Holyrood into schools funding U-turn
By William Eichler | 16 December 2016
Pressure from local government has pushed Holyrood into a major U-turn on plans to grab £100m of ...
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