Reorganisation

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Council leaders from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire will open devolution talks with Whitehall today.

FINANCE

Will lack of cash cripple the Care Act?

By Dan Peters | 03 March 2015

The Care Act has been hailed as a welcome framework for the 21st century, but directors of adult ...

FINANCE

No action is no option

By Heather Jameson | 25 February 2015

Recommendations by the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance pull together current t...

BUSINESS

Council in break-away bid towards single-tier authority

By Jamie Hailstone | 17 February 2015

Aylesbury Vale DC’s cabinet has backed plans to look at breaking away from Buckinghamshire CC to ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

VIDEO: Authorities explore single tier options

10 February 2015

The chief executive of Warrington BC is to chair a two-day commission next month into whether Cho...

BUSINESS RATES

There is no appetite for structural change…or is there?

By Michael Burton | 10 February 2015

The King's Fund last week lambasted the Coalition's distracting NHS reforms, but local government...

HEALTH

NHS reorganisation: cock-up or conspiracy?

By Michael Burton | 06 February 2015

In the cock-up versus conspiracy theory of politics the recent reorganisation of the NHS fits som...

LEGISLATION

'Value for money' needed in Welsh management, minister claims

03 February 2015

The Welsh public services minister has pledged to cut the cost of management in local government.

Case stated for Aylesbury unitary

03 February 2015

The deputy chief executive of Aylesbury Vale DC has claimed his district is ‘ideologically’ diffe...

WHITEHALL

Call to turn Lincs into single-tier authority

By MJ reporter | 27 January 2015

A Lib Dem county councillor has called on Lincolnshire CC leader Martin Hill to consider turning ...

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