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WHITEHALL

SOLACE Summit: Dawes wants devo offers that cannot be refused

By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015

The Department of Communities and Local Government’s (DCLG) permanent secretary has told council ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

SOLACE Summit: Time to act to avoid elections 'car crash'

By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015

A council chief executive has issued a call to arms for her colleagues to put forward changes to ...

WHITEHALL

SOLACE Summit: Rates reforms could put sector in 'straitjacket'

By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015

The Society of Local Authority Chief Executive’s finance policy spokesman has suggested chancello...

WHITEHALL

SOLACE Summit: Clarke calls for unitary revolution

By Dan Peters | 08 October 2015

Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has called for all local authorities to become unitaries.

WHITEHALL

SOLACE Summit: £11bn of extra responsibilities for councils

By Dan Peters | 07 October 2015

Local government will have to take on £11bn of additional responsibilities from Whitehall in retu...

HOUSING

Fears Cameron's housing overhaul will 'dry up' council stock

By Sam Clayden | 07 October 2015

David Cameron's shake up of housing rules will 'dry up' council housing stock, according to a sen...

LEGAL

Labour threat over Right to Buy

07 October 2015

A number of Labour-led London local authorities are understood to be exploring legal action again...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Rates revolution

By Heather Jameson | 06 October 2015

Plans to return 100% of business rates to local government are ‘little more than a back of the en...

FINANCE

Draw power from the people

By Jonathan Carr-West | 06 October 2015

In all political parties it can be difficult to get the leadership to recognise that local govern...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Devolution in the 'new politics' era

By Simon Parker | 06 October 2015

Devolution is an assault on local democracy, or so we were told last week by Labour’s new communi...

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