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FINANCE

The time for action is now

01 December 2014

Mind’s Paul Farmer urges local authorities to step up efforts to provide more preventative strate...

FINANCE

Keeping it together

By Paul O'Brien | 01 December 2014

The next five years are going to test some of the fundamental principles of local government, so ...

COUNCILLORS

Andrews: We can no longer pretend that local government can do everything

By Jamie Hailstone | 28 November 2014

The Welsh public services minister has warned that councils must reflect the people they serve as...

WHITEHALL

Axing fund is cynicism dressed up as localism

By David Finch | 28 November 2014

Cutting funding for local welfare provision and effectively saying ‘it’s local government’s probl...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Radical change to lift more out of poverty

By Robert Khan | 27 November 2014

Islington LBC leader Cllr Richard Watts explains why the council created an employment commission...

SOCIAL CARE

Call for more community provision post-Winterbourne

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2014

A report into the care of people with learning difficulties has called for the ramping up of comm...

WHITEHALL

Pressure growing for welfare fund U-turn

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2014

Councils have called for the Government to continue to fund local welfare provision amid criticis...

FINANCE

Norfolk £700,000 spend to plug pension fund deficit 'scandalous'

By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2014

Opposition councillors at Norfolk CC have described as ‘scandalous’ a closed-doors decision to fu...

FINANCE

Norfolk under fire for decision to plug charity pension fund deficit

By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2014

Opposition councillors at Norfolk CC have described as ‘scandalous’ a closed-doors decision to fu...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Not only the lonely

By Alison Seabrooke | 24 November 2014

Alison Seabrooke says the contribution of community groups to public services is no longer a ‘nic...

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Chief Executive

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Ebbsfleet Development Corporation

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Ashfield District Council

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