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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Joint role influential in turnaround
By Dan Peters | 03 January 2018
A new working partnership between Gloucester City Council and Gloucestershire CC has been praised...
FINANCE
Peers call for ICT improvement at council
By Dan Peters | 02 January 2018
‘Rapid improvements’ need to be made to New Forest DC’s information and communications technology...
FINANCE
Property investment crackdown could be 'potentially disastrous' - LGA
By Dan Peters | 22 December 2017
A crackdown on council property investment could be ‘potentially disastrous’ for some authorities...
WHITEHALL
LGA attacks 'counter-productive' cut
By Dan Peters | 21 December 2017
A cut to councils’ public health grants has been criticised by the Local Government Association (...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Councillors shout, bang tables and threaten to sack officers
By Dan Peters | 20 December 2017
‘Stretched’ officers are working in an environment with insufficient corporate capacity at Derby ...
WHITEHALL
Pressure growing on DCLG as Fair Funding wait goes on
By Mark Conrad | 14 December 2017
Ahead of next week’s finance settlement, local government has been warned it faces a longer-than-...
FINANCE
Child protection inquiry figures double in a decade
By Sam Clayden | 12 December 2017
Councils are undertaking more than double the number of child protection investigations than they...
WHITEHALL
LGA calls for fairer funding in finance settlement
11 December 2017
The Local Government Association has warned that council are heading towards a ‘funding cliff-edg...
EUROPEAN UNION
Council leaders call for 'urgent clarity' over EU funding
By William Eichler | 07 December 2017
Council chiefs yesterday called on the Government to provide ‘urgent clarity’ over how it will re...
HEALTH
LGA chief says BCF has 'come to end of its life'
By Sam Clayden | 01 December 2017
The Better Care Fund (BCF) in its current form has ‘come to the end of it’s life’, the chief exec...
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