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WHITEHALL

Healey: Double housing investment to avoid post-Brexit slump

By Sam Clayden | 14 July 2016

The former shadow housing secretary has called on Whitehall to double investment and freeze its l...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Morgan's education review 'business as usual'

By Sam Clayden | 13 July 2016

A new government consultation into the role of councils in education and child safeguarding has b...

WHITEHALL

Capital rates pilot a 'big risk' to sector

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

London Councils is pushing ahead with plans for the capital to retain all of its income from busi...

WHITEHALL

Call for councils to take on 'Big Six' energy purchasers

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 July 2016

Every council in England could soon enter the energy business and take on the ‘Big Six,’ accordin...

WHITEHALL

N Lincolnshire asked to aid other authorities buy British steel

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 July 2016

North Lincolnshire Council has been asked by the Government to help other local authorities buy B...

WHITEHALL

'Change attitude to risk,' says CIPFA

By Tom Bridge | 13 July 2016

It would be ‘unacceptable’ if local government shied away from taking risks on commercial activit...

WHITEHALL

Poor standards 'nail in coffin' for education policy

By Sam Clayden | 13 July 2016

Two reports revealing poor standards in many of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs) should be...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall refusal to publish grant details a 'scandal'

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

A ‘pungent whiff of scandal’ surrounds the Government’s refusal to publish key details about how ...

WHITEHALL

Devolution still the way under May – Clark

By Heather Jameson | 13 July 2016

Local government will be ‘vital’ in new prime minister Theresa May’s premiership, communities sec...

WHITEHALL

Funding fears over Whitehall devo strategy

By Thomas Bridge | 13 July 2016

Whitehall has been warned it is ‘building failure’ into devolution unless it provides more fundin...

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