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HEALTH
Willcox: Focus on delayed transfers is short-sighted
By Sam Clayden | 10 October 2017
The emphasis on delayed transfers of care (DTOC) and looming winter pressures is ‘short-sighted’ ...
HEALTH
Cornwall may take over CCG's management
By Hiba Mahamadi | 05 October 2017
NHS England might ask Cornwall Council to take over the management of a clinical commissioning gr...
FINANCE
CCN vows to hold LGA to account over fairer funding
By Mark Conrad | 04 October 2017
The chair of the County Councils’ Network has vowed to hold the Local Government Association’s (L...
FINANCE
Budget submissions led by CIPFA Brexit warning
By Heather Jameson | 27 September 2017
The financial implications of a Brexit deal should be taken into account when the chancellor deci...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Chief defends council's peformance after critical report on kids' services
By Dan Peters | 27 September 2017
Worcestershire CC’s interim chief executive has insisted there are now ‘green shoots’ after a dam...
HEALTH
Care 'catastrophe'
By Hiba Mahamadi and Dan Peters | 27 September 2017
Friction rises as council leaders warn over Whitehall’s threats to withhold bed-blocking cash.
HEALTH
DCN in prevention precept call
By William Eichler | 25 September 2017
District councils have called for the introduction of a new health precept on council tax to rais...
FINANCE
Council to slash adult social care budget by £56m
By Hiba Mahamadi | 22 September 2017
Hampshire CC has agreed to cut nearly £56m from its adult social care budget as part of plans to ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
'Systemic and persistent' failures in council's children's services
By Dan Peters | 20 September 2017
Worcestershire CC has said it has invested an extra £5.1m into improving children’s social care t...
ENVIRONMENT
Let's get back local government's voice
By Nick Forbes | 20 September 2017
Ahead of the Labour Party Conference, Nick Forbes outlines some of the challenges for local autho...
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