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COUNCILLORS

Mentoring for councillors

22 September 2015

The Welsh Government has launched a new scheme to improve diversity among councillors.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Punish rogue landlords

22 September 2015

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

BUSINESS

IT deal for Oxford

22 September 2015

The technology firm SCC has won a 10-year contract with Oxford City Council to provide IT infrast...

WHITEHALL

'Let Whitehall manage housing schemes'

22 September 2015

Central government should take over planning responsibility for large housing projects, according...

DEVOLUTION

Worcestershire 'to go it alone'

22 September 2015

Worcestershire CC has rejected an offer to join the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), sign...

Burgess 'back in Blackburn' as chairman of local CCG

22 September 2015

Former Blackburn with Darwen BC chief executive Graham Burgess is returning to the town as the ch...

FINANCE

Sir Merrick sets challenge to sector's pension scheme

22 September 2015

Former chairman of the Local Government Association, Sir Merrick Cockell, wants to ‘challenge’ th...

SOCIAL CARE

whitevanman

22 September 2015

…on bankrupt care homes

WHITEHALL

Aldous to chair CAPPG

22 September 2015

Former Suffolk county councillor Peter Aldous has been elected new chairman of the County All Par...

TRADING STANDARDS

Safari, so goody

22 September 2015

Just when you thought local government had got through the horsemeat scandal and along comes anot...