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CLIMATE CHANGE

Former Local Government Employers head dies

By Heather Jameson | 07 January 2014

The former managing director of Local Government Employers (LGE), Jan Parkinson, has died after a...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Chief retires from NALC

By Heather Jameson | 07 January 2014

John Findlay, the chief executive of the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), has annou...

FINANCE

Pickles urged to allow naming and shaming of business rate debtors

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 January 2014

The leader of South Tyneside MBC wants local authorities to be allowed to name and shame companie...

FINANCE

Councils to launch legal collaboration

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 January 2014

Two county councils are looking at joining forces with their fire and rescue services to launch n...

FINANCE

Authorities plan joint recycling for Staffordshire

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 January 2014

Plans for a joint recycling contract in Staffordshire are ‘well under way’, according to a new re...

FINANCE

Lewis defends 'light touch' standards regime

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2014

Ministers have again defended the new ‘light touch’ standards regime covering councillor behaviour.

FINANCE

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...

FINANCE

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...

FINANCE

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.