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WHITEHALL

Councils' rage at being cut out of schools funding plans

By Jamie Hailstone | 19 April 2016

Government plans to cut councils out of the schools funding equation have come in for sharp criti...

ENVIRONMENT

NAO slams Green Deal's efficiency programme's failure to deliver

19 April 2016

The National Audit Office (NAO) has slated the Government’s axed Green Deal home efficiency progr...

LEGAL

Tower Hamlets campaigners to mount prosecution

19 April 2016

Tower Hamlets campaigners are looking to launch a private prosecution after police claimed there ...

HEALTH

Health study raises concerns devo 'fad' will not deliver

19 April 2016

The current ‘fad’ for devolving healthcare ‘promises a lot but delivers little,’ a think-tank has...

'Too many plans for integration' condemned

By Sam Clayden | 19 April 2016

Social care directors have criticised the number of NHS programmes seeking integration.

WHITEHALL

Councils count the cost of forced academisation

19 April 2016

Council finance chiefs are attempting to work out the impact of forced academisation on their bus...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Corridors of power

19 April 2016

Conservative Central Office veteran Justin Strange is teaching the hard realities of politics to ...

ENVIRONMENT

Eyes on hinky kinky clips

19 April 2016

Diary sometimes forgets the varied work that councils do but was reminded after hearing about Enf...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Fight for the Wight

19 April 2016

You wake up and your funding is just so low.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Chiefs urged to encourage staff to lobby unions

By Dan Peters | 19 April 2016

Chief executives and leaders have been encouraged to get their staff to lobby the trade unions wh...