Legal

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Newham LBC and the GMB trade union have called for the power to enforce underpayment of the natio...

Future legal challenges

By Bev Cullen | 23 March 2015

LLG vice president Bev Cullen outlines the challenges ahead for local authority lawyers.

BUSINESS

Number of CPOs on the rise, report finds

By Jamie Hailstone | 23 March 2015

The number of planning Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) issued by councils has risen by 61%, acc...

FINANCE

Hopkins promises to 'respond robustly' to legal threat

By Dan Peters | 20 March 2015

Local government minister Kris Hopkins has said his department will ‘respond robustly’ to Greenwi...

BUSINESS

Care Act will add costs to councils

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

The Care Act will start to have a big financial impact on councils in 2016/17, it has been predic...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Pickles announces £950,000 statutory notices cash pot winners

By Jonathan Werran | 13 March 2015

Some 23 local authorities to share £1m Government cash pot to modernise the publication of statut...

LEGAL

Pickles: Councils acting out James Bond fantasies

By Heather Jameson | 13 March 2015

Councils were accused of ‘acting out their James Bond fantasies’ by communities secretary Eric Pi...

HEALTH

Things are pretty grim for pensioners

By Andrew Kaye | 12 March 2015

Pensioners risk being condemned to the most miserable existence now cuts to crucial care and othe...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Report warns councillors not to meddle in operational affairs

By Dan Peters | 10 March 2015

Officers at Portsmouth City Council (PCC) have ‘often felt under pressure to write reports that t...

SOCIAL CARE

Care Act will bring legal challenges, councils are warned

By Dan Peters | 10 March 2015

A local government lawyer has warned that councils could be exposed to legal challenges when the ...

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