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HEALTH
'Give us powers to over-rule commercial confidentiality'
By Mark Conrad | 11 April 2017
Councils are demanding powers to over-rule ‘commercial confidentiality’ when scrutinising how pri...
HEALTH
Health devo put on hold but not dropped
By Heather Jameson | 11 April 2017
Plans for further health devolution in London have been put back again, but not been dropped, acc...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
EXCLUSIVE: Child and adult care posts 'hardest to fill'
By Sam Clayden | 11 April 2017
Filling children and adult social care positions is causing upper-tier chief executives the bigge...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
'Stow many opportunities
11 April 2017
Diary hears whispers that Waltham Forest LBC chief executive, Martin Esom, is keen to make more o...
WHITEHALL
Inflexible funding may scupper apprenticeship levy
By James Evison | 11 April 2017
London Councils has warned a lack of flexibility on funding for apprenticeships could scupper the...
HUMOUR
It's McFloatface mania
11 April 2017
News reaches Diary of another twist in the long-running saga of the public naming of the Isle of ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Chief vows to make kid's services Tower Hamlets' top priority
By Sam Clayden | 11 April 2017
Tower Hamlets LBC’s chief executive has vowed to make children’s services an ‘absolute priority’ ...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Without reservation
11 April 2017
Let’s face it, nothing winds up members of staff and junior officers more than their bosses’ rese...
DEVOLUTION
'Tribal politics' curb West Yorkshire devo deal
By Dan Peters | 11 April 2017
Conservative tribal politics appear to have thwarted a mayoral devolution deal for West Yorkshire.
WHITEHALL
Scorn for Bourne's £1bn
By Dan Peters | 11 April 2017
Government figures claiming councils can raise £1bn through the social care precept are massively...
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