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AUDIT
LGA warning over audit fees
By Dan Peters | 21 October 2024
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned it is ‘very likely’ there will be ‘significant’...
PEOPLE
Disgraced peer Hanningfield dies
By Heather Jameson | 21 October 2024
Former leader of Essex CC and peer Lord Hanningfield has died.
SOLACE SUMMIT
Solace Summit: Tensions with central government starting to ease, suggests Prosser
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2024
Tensions between local and central government are starting to ease in the wake of the General Ele...
OFLOG
EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog looking to add metrics despite pause
By Dan Peters | 09 October 2024
The Office for Local Government (Oflog) is pushing ahead with work to expand its data gathering d...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's services need cash injection amid rising cases, says LGA
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
Children’s services in England need an ‘emergency cash injection’ in the Budget to deal with ‘rec...
SOCIAL CARE
Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...
PREVENTION
Prevention could deliver £11bn return on investment
By Lee Peart | 07 October 2024
Injecting more money into prevention could deliver an extra £11bn return on investment on current...
FINANCE
Independent funding body distribution call
By Dan Peters | 02 October 2024
Local authorities in some of the country’s most deprived areas have called for allocations of cou...
FINANCE
Economist floats payroll tax idea
By Dan Peters | 02 October 2024
The UK could introduce a hypothecated payroll tax like in France, a former adviser to a series of...
FINANCE
Bidding pots launched despite ministerial pledge
By Dan Peters | 02 October 2024
Frustrated council officers are still being invited to bid for small pots of cash despite ministe...
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