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FINANCE
Fraud and errors cost housing benefit £1.4bn
By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014
The viability of the housing system is being put into question through increasing reliance by eve...
WHITEHALL
If the welfare cap fits, wear it
By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014
Features editor Jonathan Werran on the countdown to chancellor George Osborne's quite wintry Autu...
BEDROOM TAX
Bedroom tax hits the North most, ALMOs' research indicates
By Jonathan Werran | 20 October 2014
Residents in the North of England continue to face the greatest impact of the so-called bedroom t...
WHITEHALL
PAC Hodge: 'Out of sight, out of mind' DWP at fault for record housing benefit overpayments
By Jonathan Werran | 16 October 2014
Housing Benefit overpayments cost the taxpayer nearly £1bn in 2013/14, spending watchdogs have ca...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Council chiefs to work with Whitehall for UC roll-out
By Jamie Hailstone | 14 October 2014
Town hall chiefs have pledged to work with Whitehall on the roll-out of the controversial Univers...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Commission calls for devolution within Birmingham's children's services
By Jonathan Werran | 14 October 2014
Responsibility for Birmingham's beleagured children's services should be devolved to 10 district...
THIRD SECTOR
A global problem tackled locally
By Michael Burton | 13 October 2014
Global events can end up as local problems, as the rural district of Fenland discovered when it e...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Give us freedom and watch us fly
By Ruth Dombey | 10 October 2014
Sutton LBC leader Ruth Dombey says fiscal devolution isn't an end in itself, it's a means to an ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Give us freedom and watch us fly
By Ruth Dombey | 10 October 2014
All over the United Kingdom people are demanding more control over their lives and a greater say ...
BEDROOM TAX
Is it good night for bedroom tax?
By John Healey | 09 October 2014
The backbench Bill still has to pass stages in both the Commons and the Lords to become law, but ...
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- Councils record mixed rough sleeping picture
- Leadership in local government is rarely about having full control
- Reorganisation is an opportunity to switch to a more preventative system
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