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FINANCE

Thinking digitally on the Spending Review

By Jos Creese | 26 November 2015

How will George Osborne’s Spending Review impact on the digital approaches being taken by local a...

FINANCE

Dark days

By Heather Jameson | 25 November 2015

Osborne’s hammer blow to local government in latest Spending Review cuts

WHITEHALL

Corridors of power: The real Autumn Statement

25 November 2015

Chancellor George Osborne has taken a truth drug just before he stands up to make his Autumn Stat...

HEALTH

(Health MJ) Local NHS to receive 'Ofsted-style' ratings

25 November 2015

Local health services are to be given Ofsted-style ratings from next year to show how they are pe...

FINANCE

Forcing councils to spend reserves a 'reckless gamble'

By Sam Clayden | 25 November 2015

Whitehall has faced a backlash from council leaders, the Local Government Association (LGA) and e...

FINANCE

Whitehall 'putting frontline at risk'

By Sam Clayden | 25 November 2015

Wales’ public services minister has blamed Whitehall for putting the frontline at risk, but sugge...

HEALTH

Social care funds 'uncertain'

By Tom Bridge | 25 November 2015

Councils have issued a stark warning about ‘deeply uncertain’ levels of funding for social care a...

FINANCE

'Councils have the answers, not central government'

By Sam Clayden | 25 November 2015

Local authorities are the most successful tier of government but will be shafted with more financ...

FINANCE

(Health MJ) Councils attack public health spending cuts

25 November 2015

Local authorities have criticised an across-the-board reduction to public health allocations for ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Whitehall accused of 'Soviet-style control' over councils

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2015

Central government’s refusal to release control over local economies has been compared to the att...

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