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BUSINESS
MPs say 'no' to rates levy spend for housing
By Mark Conrad | 14 February 2017
MPs have rejected calls to allow the infrastructure levy to be spent on housing under 100% busine...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Council to move parks to trust
By Jamie Hailstone | 13 February 2017
Newcastle City Council has announced plans to transfer the management of its parks to a charitabl...
WHITEHALL
Councils call for academy intervention powers
By Laura Sharman | 10 February 2017
Councils have called for new powers to help transform struggling academy schools.
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: 'It's make or break time' - annual finance survey
By Dan Peters | 08 February 2017
Results of the latest LGiU/The MJ annual finance survey lead to stark warnings on the fiscal futu...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Porter: Local government threw devolution back in ministers' faces
By Sam Clayden | 02 February 2017
The country’s most influential council leader has proclaimed that ‘devolution is dead’ and sugges...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Channelling anxiety for good
By Claire Fox | 01 February 2017
More than a quarter of young people feel their ability to shape their own future is slipping away...
WHITEHALL
LGA raps discount lending plan
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2017
Current Whitehall plans to offer £1bn of discounted lending to councils would have a ‘positive bu...
BUSINESS
LEPs 'must be more transparent'
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2017
Renewed calls have been made for local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) to be more transparent in t...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
MPs repeat criticism of council asylum response
By William Eichler | 31 January 2017
MPs have called for more councils to take in asylum seekers five months after local authorities d...
FINANCE
Charity in 'unsustainable' fostering warning
By Laura Sharman | 31 January 2017
The fostering system in the UK is under ‘unsustainable strain,’ with ‘hard-won improvements’ at r...
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