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Gove's pay plan dismissed as 'unnecessary gimmick'
By Mark Conrad | 07 November 2023
Communities secretary Michael Gove’s embryonic plan to require full councils to approve top salar...
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King's Speech light on local government solutions
By Heather Jameson | 07 November 2023
The Government has vowed to increase economic growth – but warned the Treasury would prioritise c...
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DLUHC to be hit by real term budget cuts, think-tank warns
By Michael Burton | 06 November 2023
The levelling up department is to be hit by real term budget cuts over the next five years despit...
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Bradford latest to issue section 114 warning
By Mark Whitehead | 31 October 2023
Bradford City Council has warned it may become the latest to declare an emergency section 114 not...
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Emergency summit held amid temporary accommodation warnings
By Dan Peters | 31 October 2023
More than 150 councils this week attended an emergency summit as the cost of temporary accommodat...
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Calls to close extremism loopholes
By Martin Ford | 30 October 2023
Local authorities are currently ‘having to police thought’ in their counter-terrorism role, an ex...
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Children's services 'absolute carnage'
By Mark Whitehead | 30 October 2023
The state of children’s services has been described as ‘absolute carnage’ after years of underfun...
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Call for Government write off of Croydon debt
By Dan Peters | 30 October 2023
The Government should write off Croydon LBC’s £1.3bn of General Fund debt, a senior opposition co...
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Council websites referred to equality watchdogs
By Dan Peters | 30 October 2023
Some 56 local government websites have been referred to equality watchdogs in the last year.
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Call for faster family hubs rollout
By Dan Peters | 30 October 2023
The creation of a new network of family hubs should ‘go further and faster,’ an expert has urged.
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Shape the Future of Essex. Drive climate action. Deliver for our communities. Apply for this job
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