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ROTHERHAM ABUSE

Ethics code plan gather pace

By Mark Conrad | 10 February 2015

Council chiefs plan to waste little time developing an ethics code covering senior local authorit...

DEVOLUTION

Fresh funding needed

10 February 2015

Devolution in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire must be aimed at securing fresh local funding for transp...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Social problems cost £17bn

10 February 2015

Failure to protect young people from damaging social problems costs the public purse £17bn each y...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Robinson joins Wirral MBC

10 February 2015

Wirral MBC has appointed Staffordshire CC deputy chief executive Eric Robinson as its new chief e...

FINANCE

Row brewing over use of reserve council cash

By Jonathan Werran | 10 February 2015

Council chiefs have hit back at ministerial claims the sector is sitting on a £21bn hoard of cash...

FINANCE

Report earmarks potential savings from digital tech

By Jonathan Werran | 10 February 2015

Councils could make more than £5bn total savings through better use of digital technology over th...

DCLG

Cuts to survey harm policies

10 February 2015

Cost-cutting plans to undertake the English Housing Survey every two years threaten to leave Whit...

DCLG

Manchester devolution hailed as 'radical'

By Dan Peters | 10 February 2015

A key architect of the Manchester devolution deal has advised others seeking more powers from Whi...

Council defends cash-generating strategies while earning £100m

By Dan Peters | 10 February 2015

A council has been forced to defend its treasury management strategy despite generating more than...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Welfare plans may face further scrutiny

By Dan Peters | 10 February 2015

Further legal action against the Government’s plans for the future of local welfare assistance co...