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Call for 'sleeping giant' county councils to make voices heard

By Heather Jameson | 18 November 2013

County Councils’ Network (CCN) chairman David Hodge has called on the ‘sleeping giants’ of county...

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Crossing the channel shift

By Anthony Peake | 15 November 2013

Local government is set to make £300m savings through digital switchover in 2014, if the findings...

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Decentralised cash for NEETs, urges LGA

By Heather Jameson | 15 November 2013

Council leaders have called on the government to decentralise spending on youth unemployment as t...

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Ex-leader calls for Cambridgeshire unitaries

By Heather Jameson | 14 November 2013

The former leader of Cambridgeshire CC has called for the county to be split into two unitary aut...

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Local government detects £178m fraud

By Heather Jameson | 14 November 2013

Local government detected £178m fraud last year, according to the Audit Commission’s annual repor...

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Report: Poor relationship between social services and GPs

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 November 2013

More than half of all GPs rate their relationship with adult social services as either poor or un...

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Strategic Director for Economy, Transport and Environment

14 November 2013

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Council confident developers will not bypass planners

By MJ Correspondent | 13 November 2013

Powers that would allow developers to bypass a council’s planning department are unlikely to be u...

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Auditing procurement U-turn by Government

By MJ Correspondent | 13 November 2013

The local government sector will be allowed to collectively procure auditing services after a Gov...

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Contract row showdown in Lancashire

By MJ Correspondent | 13 November 2013

Wrangling over the controversial relationship between Lancashire CC and its strategic partner BT ...