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ERIC PICKLES

Battle of the bitter Twitters

05 May 2015

Is Eric Pickles a secret fan of the cult television show Little Britain?

'Mismanaged' LGPS faces funding deficit of £47bn

By Dan Peters | 05 May 2015

The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has an estimated funding deficit of £47bn, latest figu...

FINANCE

Councils urged to be prudent when exploring derivatives

By Dan Peters | 05 May 2015

Councils thinking about dipping their toes back into the financial derivatives market have been w...

PAY

UKIP local surge predicted

By Jonathan Werran | 05 May 2015

UKIP is poised to make dramatic headway in this week’s local government elections, and could doub...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Council clarifies chief executive fraud comments

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 May 2015

Woking BC has clarified comments made by its chief executive after criticism he was linking the t...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Ring-fenced fund 'could cut spending'

By Tom Bridge | 05 May 2015

A ring-fenced fund to support councils and other bodies redesign local services could reduce spen...

ROTHERHAM ABUSE

Rotherham MBC was given list of CSE suspects in 2003

By Dan Peters | 05 May 2015

A list of the suspected main perpetrators of organised child sexual exploitation in Rotherham in ...

FINANCE

Key Cities demand fiscal freedoms

By Jonathan Werran | 30 April 2015

The transfer of local property taxes must form the main plank to devolution at city level, an inf...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

New chief for Ashfield DC

By Heather Jameson | 29 April 2015

Ashfield DC has announced Robert Mitchell has been appointed as its new chief executive.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Miliband's devolution pledge

By Jonathan Werran | 28 April 2015

Labour leader tells The MJ ‘the biggest devolution to English regions’ is at the forefront of th...