Summer of strumming

01 May 2013

Communities minister Don Foster indulged his inner rock god last week by picking up the ukulele.

FINANCE

Osborne urged to ditch Whitehall ring-fence

By Laura Sharman | 01 May 2013

Six leading think tanks call on chancellor to end ongoing protections for health, schools and ove...

Falling to pieces

01 May 2013

This week’s timely reminder comes from Richmond LBC, who would like to make it perfectly clear th...

FINANCE

Councils cope with massive Census undercount

By Jonathan Werran | 01 May 2013

Government statisticians upwardly revise population estimates by 464,000 across England and Wale...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Most districts working well with PCCs, survey shows

By Jonathan Werran | 30 April 2013

Majority of districts have worked well with PCCs since last November in forming police and crime ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Darlington builds office to keep civil service presence

By Laura Sharman | 30 April 2013

Darlington BC to build new office for the Department for Education, following campaign to keep 40...

FINANCE

Herefordshire Council to cut 300 jobs

By Laura Sharman | 30 April 2013

Herefordshire Council has announced it will be cutting around 300 full-time equivalent jobs over ...

WHITEHALL

Local Government Ombudsman 'fair and accountable' review finds

By Laura Sharman | 30 April 2013

The Local Government Ombudsman is 'independent and accountable' according to an external evaluati...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Treasury slammed over infrastructure plan

By Dominic Browne | 29 April 2013

The Government’s 'Infrastructure Plan' is nothing more than ‘a list of projects’ with no ‘strateg...

HEALTH

London boroughs call for action over £22m NHS scandal

By Jamie Hailstone | 29 April 2013

A group of South West London boroughs has called for NHS officers responsible for a £22m financia...