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BUSINESS

Fitzgerald to be on bail for a year

By Dan Peters | 23 February 2018

Four men, including Liverpool City Council boss Ged Fitzgerald, will have been on bail for a year...

FINANCE

Greens call for council tax and business rates reform

By Dan Peters | 22 February 2018

Co-convener of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie, has called for a replacement of the current s...

WHITEHALL

Gwynne calls for answers on 'fiasco' settlement

By Dan Peters | 21 February 2018

Andrew Gwynne has written to the Cabinet Office’s permanent secretary claiming Whitehall official...

FINANCE

Honesty is still the best policy

By Heather Jameson | 20 February 2018

Heather Jameson says those involved in the provisional local government finance settlement cover-...

FINANCE

Be prepared when you enter the den

By Blair McPherson | 20 February 2018

Blair McPherson cautions senior officers about the need to present their budgets with balanced op...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Reorganisation in counties must be based on evidence

By James Maker | 20 February 2018

Reorganisation may be part of the future of local government in two–tier counties, but it will on...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Finance cover-up exposed

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 20 February 2018

Key Whitehall departments involved in attempt to bury changes to provisional finance settlement d...

FINANCE

Auditor in 'unlawful' budget warning

By Mark Conrad | 20 February 2018

Crisis-hit Northamptonshire CC was this week told to rip up its 2018/19 budget after auditors war...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Simmonds could face challenge from county leader

By Mark Conrad | 20 February 2018

Smith Square’s Conservative group leader, Cllr David Simmonds, is facing a potential leadership c...

HEALTH

STP to ACS to ACO

15 February 2018

Diary is used to being kept on its toes by regular acronym changes in local government – but heal...

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