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WHITEHALL

ADASS survey: Nine in ten fear care duty failure

By Sam Clayden | 12 July 2016

Less than one in ten social care directors believed they would be able to fulfil their statutory ...

WHITEHALL

Clark 'confident' sector will be vital in May premiership

By Dan Peters | 12 July 2016

Communities secretary Greg Clark has highlighted the significance of Theresa May’s appearance in ...

WHITEHALL

Councils warn of extra transparency burdens

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 July 2016

Government plans to make councils publish more data should be applied across other parts of the p...

FINANCE

Whitehall backs Khan devolution plea

By Sam Clayden | 11 July 2016

Whitehall has supported London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plea for further fiscal devolution to the capit...

FINANCE

Care programmes will not deliver savings - think-tank

By Jamie Hailstone | 11 July 2016

Integrated care and health programmes are unlikely to deliver any savings in this parliament as t...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Osborne: Brexit was instruction to make Northern Powerhouse reality

By William Eichler | 08 July 2016

The result of the European Union referendum was an instruction to ‘deliver the Northern Powerhous...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Hill: Councils best placed to run schools

By Jamie Hailstone | 08 July 2016

Children’s services chiefs have called for a ‘meaningful relationship’ between Whitehall and loca...

WHITEHALL

Call for greater LEP transparency

By Dan Peters | 08 July 2016

Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) must be covered by the Freedom of Information Act to prevent...

FINANCE

Collaboration to make £2bn City Deal a success

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016

Business leaders have called on ministers to work together to help make the £2bn Edinburgh and S...

WHITEHALL

Mayor opposition may dash devo hope

By Sam Clayden | 06 July 2016

Regions that failed to sign devolution deals before the EU referendum may regret wavering over el...

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