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No rift behind Better Care Fund 'delay'

By MJ Correspondent | 15 May 2014

The two Government departments charged with delivering the BCF have insisted they are united behi...

Councillors more trusted than MPs to make local choices, LGA poll finds

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 May 2014

Three in four people would rather trust their local councillor to make a decision about their com...

No capital gain from London

By Jonathan Werran | 13 May 2014

Less than one in four (24%) people living outside London feel their local area derives any econom...

Coalition divided over free school funding

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 May 2014

Cracks appeared in the coalition government over the weekend following a row over free school fun...

LGA warning over council cuts

By Heather Jameson | 12 May 2014

Councils are ‘at the end of the road’ when it comes to efficiency savings, according to a survey ...

Ministers restate case for BCF objectives

By Jonathan Werran | 12 May 2014

Ministers insist attempts to deliver the ambitions of the BCF are a 'necessity’ if England is to ...

Elderly are in 'for a shock' over social care cap

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 May 2014

Pensioners are likely to face social care bills twice the size of the Government’s £70,000 cap, a...

Integrated services transform local areas

By MJ Correspondent | 09 May 2014

The integration of services is the ‘most exciting game in town for transforming local areas’, new...

Healey urges radical LEPs overhaul to drive local growth

By Jonathan Werran | 09 May 2014

Local Enterprise Partnerships must be strengthened, streamlined and given access to additional po...

Union issues stark outsourcing warning

By MJ reporter | 09 May 2014

The outsourcing of children’s services will only lead to fragmentation and a deterioration of qua...

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