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WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Councils could face 'traffic light' grading on finances
By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 20 June 2018
Every council could be publicly graded red, amber or green for financial resilience under plans b...
WHITEHALL
Hammond offers little respite for council finances
By Heather Jameson | 13 March 2018
Council finances were offered little respite in chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Statement.
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Still suffering post-suffrage
By Heather Wakefield | 08 March 2018
The stark inequality in local government and beyond will only be reversed if forced by women, Hea...
FINANCE
What do we talk about when we talk about finance?
By Jonathan Carr-West | 20 February 2018
If we want to encourage and nurture a better conversation about local resourcing, councils need t...
WHITEHALL
Expert in warning over funding review complexities
By Dan Peters | 07 February 2018
The complexity of the local government fair funding review could make it difficult to develop a ‘...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Funding red flags raised
By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 06 February 2018
One in 10 council bosses fear their local authority will not have enough funding to fulfil their ...
FINANCE
The MJ/LGiU finance survey: The balancing act continues
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2018
Children's services has emerged as the new biggest risk facing the sector, overtaking adult socia...
BUSINESS
Black: Barclay Review was missed opportunity
By Dan Peters | 25 October 2017
Scotland’s Barclay Review into business rates was a ‘missed opportunity’ that did not go far enou...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Is there a crisis in representative democracy?
By Jonathan Carr-West | 23 October 2017
With participative democracy on the rise, but Jonathan Carr-West says it is important we do not g...
LGIU
We must revisit the role of local government
By Jonathan Carr-West | 13 September 2017
With the political landscape in flux and mayors pushing the boundaries of their original remit, n...
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