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WHITEHALL
Councils deny 'back-door merger' claims
By MJ reporter | 13 January 2015
Wolverhampton City Council and Telford & Wrekin Council have rubbished claims by MP Mark Pritchar...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall to increase use of 'external experts' to aid failing children's services
By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015
External experts will be increasingly called in to support weak or failing children’s social care...
WHITEHALL
Improve council fraud incentives, MPs tell DWP
By Jonathan Werran | 13 January 2015
Commons Public Accounts Committee has urged the Department for Work and Pensions to devise strong...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Birmingham's Knottenbelt to retire for second time
12 January 2015
Birmingham City Council’s head of adult learning Sue Knottenbelt has retired for the second time ...
FINANCE
Are children's services the fourth emergency solution?
By Chris Waterman | 09 January 2015
Chris Waterman analyses what the year ahead, either side of the General Election in May, has in s...
FINANCE
Get to grips with health and social care funding, MPs urge
By Jonathan Werran | 09 January 2015
Government funding decisions about different elements of healthcare and social care have been mad...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Camden urges London councils to lobby for tourism tax
By Dan Peters | 08 January 2015
The idea of councils being allowed to impose a tourist levy to help plug funding gaps has been re...
WHITEHALL
DCLG announces Kerslake replacement
By Heather Jameson | 08 January 2015
The Department for Communities and Local Government has appointed Melanie Dawes as its new perman...
FINANCE
PAC Hodge wants LGA help with off-payroll crackdown
By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2015
A public spending watchdog has urged the Local Government Association (LGA) to continue working w...
WHITEHALL
SIGOMA angered over loss of government grants
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 January 2015
A group of councils has accused the Government of trying to downplay the impact of the latest loc...
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