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Survey throws doubt on prompt energy bill help
By Dan Peters | 21 February 2023
Seven in 10 councils do not expect to be able to dole out a key winter energy bill grant until th...
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£5.4bn surplus recorded for public finances
By Michael Burton | 21 February 2023
The public finances showed a welcome £5.4bn surplus last month as record self-assessment tax reve...
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Call for 'real action' as Government sidelines parks group
By Dan Peters | 20 February 2023
A member of the Government’s sidelined parks action group (PAG) has called for ‘real action’ afte...
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CIPFA to 'look again' at select committee's report
By Dan Peters | 20 February 2023
Local government finance experts will ‘look again’ at a six-year-old report by MPs on improving t...
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Council in £540m debt write off plea
By Dan Peters | 17 February 2023
Croydon LBC has asked Government to write off £540m of its debt in 2023-24 to ‘restore financial ...
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Levelling up director appointed amid recruitment uncertainty
By Paul Marinko | 17 February 2023
The Government is still ‘reviewing the recruitment process for levelling up directors’ despite ap...
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Performance body planned, but no league table return
By Dan Peters | 15 February 2023
Whitehall officials have told the sector they do not intend to create league tables as they push ...
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Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach to social care reform
By Becky Wilkinson | 15 February 2023
Becky Wilkinson examines what Wolverhampton City Council has learned from being a trailblazer cou...
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Pride, innovation... and disappointment
By Karen Fuller | 15 February 2023
Karen Fuller sets out Oxfordshire CC’s experiences of preparing to pilot social care charging ref...
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A practical action plan for cities
By Mayor Marvin Rees | 15 February 2023
Chair of Core Cities UK Marvin Rees explains a new venture to maximise the potential of the UK’s ...
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Strategic Leads
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- Local government reorganisation review nears completion
- Local government reorganisation: Keeping services options open
- Calls for all councils to develop unique place-based growth plans
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Social care vacancies at decade low but recruitment growth slows
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