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SOCIAL CARE
Age UK warns 10% council tax hike would still not fix care
15 October 2021
Charity Age UK has warned council tax would need to go up by another 10% next year just to allow ...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Penna view
By Julie Towers and Toni Hall | 13 October 2021
Julie Towers and Toni Hall offer a sneak preview of the annual Chief Executive Survey set to be p...
HOUSING
Ombudsman flags housing waiting lists 'backlog'
By Laura Sharman | 13 October 2021
The high number of families trying to join councils’ housing waiting lists has been highlighted b...
FINANCE
Council tax could easily rise by 5% a year - IFS
By Ann McGauran | 06 October 2021
English councils will need billions more from government and big tax rises to maintain services a...
SOCIAL CARE
Public health grant cuts run counter to levelling up, say experts
05 October 2021
Real terms cuts to local public health work against levelling up and the Government must boost fu...
SOCIAL CARE
Local services face £8bn funding black hole by 2024, councils warn
By Laura Sharman | 01 October 2021
Council tax will have to rise by more than a quarter in the next three years to cover the shortfa...
WHITEHALL
Future Forum: Councils, not Whitehall, are leaders of place
By Martin Ford | 30 September 2021
Civil service ‘heads of place’ should not supplant councillors, Local Government Association (LGA...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Building forward in local government
By Pauline Yau | 30 September 2021
Failure by the Government to recognise the great strides councils have made harnessing the positi...
WHITEHALL
Future Forum: Top recruiter predicts exodus
By Dan Peters | 29 September 2021
A top recruiter has predicted a senior-level exodus from the sector.
TRANSFORMATION
Transforming services through COVID
By Jim Leivers | 29 September 2021
Keeping children’s services going through a pandemic was hard enough, but St Helens MBC has embar...
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