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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: New protocol to ease council tensions

By Dan Peters | 04 June 2019

A protocol encouraging best practice between councils will be drawn up by the Local Government As...

MANAGEMENT

Striking the right balance

By Emmet Regan | 28 May 2019

Emmet Regan explores how leaders must take a balanced approach to solve complex public service pr...

HOUSING

Calls to increase funding to halt rise in homelessness

By Martin Ford | 24 May 2019

Calls have been made for increased funding for measures to prevent people becoming homeless as fi...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA misses peer review target

By Heather Jameson | 24 May 2019

The Local Government Association (LGA) has missed its target to halve the number of councils that...

EDUCATION

Council schools more likely to retain good ratings - LGA

By Martin Ford | 22 May 2019

Local authority schools are more likely to retain a good or outstanding Ofsted rating than those ...

FINANCE

Ministers need to be mindful of the poll tax debacle

By Michael Burton | 22 May 2019

That an 'apparently esoteric' local government finance issue could bring down a powerful Prime Mi...

WHITEHALL

Fresh call for business rates avoidance action

By Dan Peters | 20 May 2019

The Local Government Association (LGA) has made a fresh call for ministers to tackle business rat...

WHITEHALL

Councils left in dark over youth offending budgets

By Martin Ford | 15 May 2019

Funding uncertainty is undermining councils’ efforts to tackle knife crime and County Lines drug ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

The cost of the care challenge

By Michael Burton | 15 May 2019

The recent collapse into administration of care provider Four Seasons has highlighted the huge fi...

FINANCE

LGA calls for audit changes

By Dan Peters | 13 May 2019

Councils have called for auditors to be made to ‘act promptly and report on a timely basis’ when ...

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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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