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FINANCE

Welsh finance deal confirms cash for key services but core funding reduction

By Dan Peters | 10 October 2017

Welsh local authorities will receive £4.2bn to spend on key services in 2018/19 – but councils ha...

WHITEHALL

Welsh council tax support extended to 2019

By Mark Conrad | 09 October 2017

The Welsh Government has announced it will extend its council tax reduction scheme into 2018/19 a...

FINANCE

Council tax increase warning

By Dan Peters | 05 October 2017

Local authorities in Wales will be forced to increase council tax by the maximum 5% next year, a ...

FINANCE

Welsh councils bemoan 'catastrophic austerity'

By Mark Conrad | 03 October 2017

A seeming increase in Wales’ public sector budgets masks the ‘catastrophic impact that eight year...

FINANCE

Welsh councils call for end to cuts

By Dan Peters | 22 September 2017

Welsh council leaders have called for an end to the ‘relentless cuts to public services’ after a ...

FINANCE

Welsh councils' performance improves

By Laura Sharman | 13 September 2017

Nearly two-thirds of council services in Wales have improved over the last year, according to new...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Why we must protect parental autonomy

By Claire Fox | 09 August 2017

Councils and devolved authorities need to beware. The trend towards over-reach on child disciplin...

HEALTH

Councils win legal battle with health boards

By Laura Sharman | 03 August 2017

Health boards in Wales ‘misinterpreted’ the law over who is responsible for paying for nurses to ...

FINANCE

Praying for time

26 July 2017

Diary knows better than to join simmering rows about religion.

WALES

'Regional collaboration will strengthen services'

By Hiba Mahamadi | 26 July 2017

Local authorities must not be sidelined when it comes to funding if plans for greater collaborati...

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