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WHITEHALL
Working group to be formed on council data requests
By Dan Peters | 28 February 2022
The Government is to form a working group to understand what data it is ‘feasible’ for councils t...
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
The levelling up of local government funding is long overdue
By Chris Tambini | 09 February 2022
The system for funding local services is desperately in need of root and branch reform and a half...
WHITEHALL
New accountability body 'stops short' of Audit Commission reinvention
By Heather Jameson | 08 February 2022
Plans for a body to oversee the accountability of local government stop just short of re-inventin...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Government has no action plan for improving children's social care
By Dan Peters | 08 February 2022
The Government has admitted it does not have a single detailed action plan to deliver high-qualit...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Auditors in levelling up warning
By Mark Conrad | 31 January 2022
The Government’s levelling up plans could be undermined by Whitehall failure to monitor what work...
WHITEHALL
Hillier rages over 'chronic' lack of funding
By Mark Conrad | 31 January 2022
A ‘chronic’ lack of funding for council services amid soaring demand means many communities face ...
WHITEHALL
Levelling up transparency call amid funding row
By Dan Peters | 25 January 2022
Whitehall officials were this week facing renewed pressure over how the Levelling Up Fund was dol...
PLANNING
Levelling up: extreme measures
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2022
Dan Peters looks at the list of performance indicators chosen by Government for the Department fo...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
A late-notice, short-term and partial settlement poses problems
By Abdool Kara | 18 January 2022
There may be a clue about why the sector only has a one-year settlement in the lack of announceme...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Local audit's perfect storm
By Naomi Larsson | 08 December 2021
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has suggested the volume of late audits means Whitehal...
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