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WHITEHALL

DCLG needs better data on new burdens, says NAO

By Heather Jameson | 11 June 2015

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) ‘needs to use its intelligence better’...

HEALTH

NAO warning over Care Act cash shortfall

By Heather Jameson | 10 June 2015

Councils are at risk of a funding shortfall for the Care Act as the Government may have underesti...

DCLG

DCLG has no plans to cut number of LEPs

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

Ministers have ‘no plans’ to reduce the number of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), the Depar...

HEALTH

Devo will be delivered at 'different pace and scale'

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

The Government will deliver devolution at a ‘different pace and scale of ambition’ now it has a c...

Rotherham restructure gets green light

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

A management restructure of troubled Rotherham MBC that will give the council an ‘urgently-needed...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Business rates boost for prosperity 'remains weak'

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

The direct financial incentive for local authorities to boost growth and prosperity in their area...

FINANCE

Mystery of Tower Hamlets posts

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

Tower Hamlets LBC’s commissioners have approved permanent appointments to the senior posts of chi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Clark 'to clarify plans' for urban devo deals

By Jamie Hailstone | 09 June 2015

Greg Clark has been asked to clarify what the Government plans to offer urban communities for pos...

HEALTH

Meeting called to quell issues over health service funding

By MJ reporter | 09 June 2015

The leader of Plymouth City Council has called for a meeting with the chief executive of NHS Engl...

WHITEHALL

Squawk this way

09 June 2015

And they say there’s no such thing as a black cloud without a silver lining?