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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
Hodge denies pilot deal to drop tax referendum
By Sam Clayden | 14 February 2017
Surrey CC leader David Hodge has batted away claims his authority was offered a business rates pi...
WHITEHALL
Nikileaks spills the beans
14 February 2017
Sometimes things happen in politics that are so absurd they don’t seem believable enough for fict...
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...
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- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- The MJ crowns Local Authority of the Year
- 'Fiscal devolution to be more likely with Burnham as PM'
- Government rejects SEND power expansion for councils
Transport and Major Work Manager
£54,556 to £60,085 per year Inclusive of Local Weighting Allowance of £1096
Premium jobDrive the future of transport and infrastructure in Slough Apply for this job
Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
£108,015 - £118,000 pa
Operational leadership that turns strategy into reality. Apply for this job
Director of Finance (Section 151 Officer)
Competitive
The strategic voice of finance at the heart of Dudley. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- The MJ crowns Local Authority of the Year
- 'Fiscal devolution to be more likely with Burnham as PM'
- Government rejects SEND power expansion for councils
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