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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Just how local can you get?

05 July 2011

With town and parish councils keen to play a more important role, Ceri Harrison explains how Ches...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Sporting opportunities

By Stephen Cirell | 05 July 2011

Local authorities should develop innovative renewable energy schemes for playing fields and sport...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The 'Big Easy'

05 July 2011

Barnet has now developed a set of practical tools to make a local reality of the Big Society, say...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

What ministers really mean in the Localism Bill

By Mark Fletcher | 30 June 2011

If ministers were being honest what would a Localism Bill really look like? Mark Fletcher imagine...

FINANCE

Facing up to the pensions challenge

By Bob Neill | 30 June 2011

Reform of the local government pension scheme is essential and overdue, but it also has to be bot...

What next for community budgets?

By Heather Jameson | 29 June 2011

Decentralisation minister, Greg Clark,joined chief executives for an exclusive roundtable discuss...

WHITEHALL

Inside View: Keeping a lid on it

By Mark Conrad | 29 June 2011

Mark Conrad looks at how there is little escape for the public sector from the glare of public sc...

FINANCE

Shock of the new

By Dermott Calpin | 29 June 2011

Cost, cuts and the future of audit along with a planned radical overhaul of public services all f...

ENVIRONMENT

Waste not, want not

By Dermott Calpin | 22 June 2011

Councils will not be forced to make weekly bin collections, but ministers do want more recycling ...

FINANCE

Shared benefits

21 June 2011

By sharing services and working closely together two rural districts have achieved significant sa...