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DCLG
'Push ahead with devo until you're told to stop'
By Sam Clayden | 14 December 2017
Local leaders should keep pushing the limits of devolution until they are told to stop, the chief...
WHITEHALL
Pressure growing on DCLG as Fair Funding wait goes on
By Mark Conrad | 14 December 2017
Ahead of next week’s finance settlement, local government has been warned it faces a longer-than-...
TRANSFORMATION
Council withdraws objection to unitary authorities in Dorset
By Laura Sharman | 14 December 2017
Purbeck District Council has agreed to formally withdraw its opposition to the reorganisation of ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ofsted: Lack of secure units denying vulnerable children help
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2017
The lack of secure children’s units is denying care to the most vulnerable young people and could...
WHITEHALL
DCLG staff morale on the rise
By Victor Smart | 13 December 2017
The latest staff survey at the Department of Communities and Local Government shows morale has ri...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
We need a new vision for youth services
By Michael Bracey | 13 December 2017
With the launch of the LGA’s new youth services plan, Michael Bracey feels that leaning towards a...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Snow joking matter
13 December 2017
Diary’s parents once sent him to school with an un-treated broken wrist, walking two miles throug...
ENVIRONMENT
White Van Man on ... the weather
13 December 2017
How about this. I’m going be Santa and end the year actually being nice to councils for once even...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Teinbridge DC's chief executive joins West Sussex
13 December 2017
Teinbridge DC’s chief executive of 11 years, Nicola Bulbeck, has joined West Sussex CC as executi...
FINANCE
Child protection inquiry figures double in a decade
By Sam Clayden | 12 December 2017
Councils are undertaking more than double the number of child protection investigations than they...
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