WHITEHALL

Clark backs Greater Yorkshire deal

By Thomas Bridge | 22 September 2015

Communities secretary Greg Clark has hinted he would prefer Yorkshire leaders to unite and form a...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Rogue landlords should face tougher penalties

21 September 2015

Harsher punishments including jail should be meted out to rogue landlords who overcharge tenants ...

HEALTH

NHS and council bosses in joint funding call

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 September 2015

Health and adult social care bosses have joined forces to call for ‘adequate and sustained’ funding.

HEALTH

Norfolk and Suffolk look to combine devo bids

By Dan Peters | 18 September 2015

Norfolk and Suffolk could form a joint combined authority after all despite missing the Governmen...

Four councils reveal unitary plans

By Jamie Hailstone | 18 September 2015

Four councils in Dorset have revealed plans to merge and become a single unitary authority.

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Directors criticise 'unreasonable' in-year grant cut

By Dan Peters | 17 September 2015

Children’s services directors have labelled proposals to slash the youth justice grant by a furth...

WHITEHALL

Calls to scrap council home sell off

By Thomas Bridge | 17 September 2015

Local authorities could be forced to sell off 113,000 council homes under planned Right to Buy ex...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Slough BC cabinet approves contract to relinquish control over children's services

By Tom Bridge | 16 September 2015

Slough BC’s cabinet has signed off on a contract that will see its children’s services taken over...

FINANCE

Council tax reduction offered to 7% fewer Scots than in 2013

By Tom Bridge | 16 September 2015

The number of vulnerable households receiving a council tax reduction in Scotland has fallen by a...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Leaders reject shift to the left

By Heather Jameson | 16 September 2015

Labour leaders refute accusations of a return 'to the past' as Jeremy Corbyn reveals a shadow cab...