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FINANCE

Stoke-on-Trent warns of job cuts

By Martin Ford | 06 January 2020

The council is aiming to make £9.2m of savings next year.

WHITEHALL

LGA care talks offer rejected

By Martin Ford | 02 January 2020

The Government has declined an offer by the Local Government Association (LGA) to host talks on h...

SOCIAL CARE

'Ambitious programme of domestic reform' promised in Queen's Speech

By Dan Peters | 19 December 2019

The second Queen’s Speech in almost as many months has promised an ‘ambitious programme of domest...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Local government are the systems thinkers and the time to act is now

18 December 2019

Systems thinking - considering the whole, not just the parts, and how those parts interact - bri...

SOCIAL CARE

Counties are key to unleashing the entire country's potential

By David Williams | 18 December 2019

David Williams says Boris Johnson’s Government has been elected on a domestic pledge to ‘level-up...

SOCIAL CARE

First and foremost we need clarity on finance

By Paul O'Brien | 18 December 2019

Getting ‘Brexit Done’ should open up an oven-ready settlement for local government to implement r...

FINANCE

'Unaffordable and unsustainable' care demand creates £14m funding gap

By Martin Ford | 16 December 2019

Shropshire Council officers have warned that all services are facing costs next year to cover inc...

WHITEHALL

This will be a different Conservative Government

By Paul Dossett | 13 December 2019

Head of local government at Grant Thornton UK, Paul Dossett, says the fact that the Conservative ...

BUSINESS

Four Seasons hands 44 care homes to rivals

By Martin Ford | 11 December 2019

The facilities will be transferred to Roseberry Care Centres, Belsize Healthcare and Harbour Heal...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: LGA to provide vision to solve social care crisis

By Ann McGauran | 10 December 2019

Local government will put forward its vision of a reformed social care funding system to the next...

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