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Report: Cutting youth services will increase underage drinking

By MJ Correspondent | 07 January 2014

Councils must recognise that there is a tension between cutting youth services and reducing under...

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Care bosses welcome new Government rules

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 January 2014

Care bosses have hailed new government rules as a ‘step forward to a safer future’ for children i...

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Council to explore delivering national services locally

By MJ Correspondent | 07 January 2014

A council leader plans to lay down a ‘positive challenge’ to government at a meeting to discuss t...

Four Wheel Drive Woman on flooding

07 January 2014

Tarquin, get your wellies on, angel, we’re off to visit grandpa.

DCLG's Star treatment

07 January 2014

DCLG watchers should look out for a marked decline in productivity at the department.

Eric's always delivering

07 January 2014

A local government journalist’s life is not a happy one.

A Christmas message from Pickles

07 January 2014

Memo from: Secretary of State

Council wanted to bring the house down

07 January 2014

A salutary lesson in the future of planning regulations has come to Diary’s attention from our go...

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Defra flooded with Environment Agency job cut protests

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2014

A civil service trade union has called for a freeze on further job cuts in the Environment Agency.

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'Localism betrayed' by police settlement top-slicing

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2014

Plans to top-slice funding in next year’s provisional police settlement betray a lack of confiden...