Licensing - Page 3

By Hiba Mahamadi | 04 October 2017

Councils need to reassert control over taxi and private hire operations across the country, a Cov...

CHILD ABUSE

Rotherham was alerted to taxi-CSE link - report

By Dan Peters | 06 September 2017

Rotherham MBC officers did not have ‘sufficient resources, systems or policies’ to adequately inv...

BUSINESS

Council wins battle with sex shop chain over licensing

By Mark Conrad | 26 July 2017

Westminster City Council has won a key victory in its five-year battle over the level of fees tha...

WHITEHALL

Call for licensing committees to be scrapped

By Mark Conrad | 04 April 2017

Council licensing committees should be abolished and their powers handed to planning experts, a r...

WHITEHALL

Government to hand licensing powers back to Rotherham

By Dan Peters | 13 December 2016

Powers over licensing including taxi services will be handed back to Rotherham MBC as part of a ‘...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Rotherham kids still at risk due to taxi loophole

By Heather Jameson | 02 November 2016

Children in Rotherham will continue to be at risk of abuse due to a loophole in taxi licensing la...

ROTHERHAM ABUSE

Javid open to returning taxi powers to Rotherham

By William Eichler | 20 October 2016

The communities secretary has proposed handing back the power to issue taxi driver licences to Ro...

LEGAL

Interim chief vows to 'get to bottom' of South Ribble failures

By Thomas Bridge | 26 September 2016

South Ribble’s BC’s new interim chief executive has vowed to ‘get to the bottom’ of council failu...

LEGAL

'Major governance failures' found in South Ribble BC

By Thomas Bridge | 20 September 2016

An investigation into South Ribble BC’s handling of a safeguarding review has uncovered ‘major co...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Late-night licensing: nirvana or nightmare?

By James Evison | 14 September 2016

In The MJ last week, Claire Fox said councils and their over-zealous approach to licensing was to...

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