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Grabbing a share

22 November 2011

Cheshire West and Chester Council has appointed Ringway Infrastructure Services as its new highwa...

IT's a £34m deal

22 November 2011

Luton Council has agreed a 10-year ICT outsourcing partnership with Civica, which is worth more t...

Academic partners

22 November 2011

Interserve has completed a contract to design and build the new £32m Leeds West Academy for Leeds...

City's on cloud nine

22 November 2011

Sunderland City Council selects IBM to deliver a city-wide 'Cloud' computing system, which will m...

HEALTH

Some communities 'let down'

22 November 2011

Care services minister, Paul Burstow, has accused some councils of failing to pass on the extra f...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Big Lottery's latest steps to social investment

22 November 2011

The Big Lottery Fund has launched a £6m initiative to help develop the English social investment ...

Pickles praises councils for way they handled cuts and summer riots

By Michael Burton | 22 November 2011

Eric Pickles has praised councils for the way they have handled huge cuts in their spending and d...

Ofsted warns of coasting services for young people

By Michael Burton | 22 November 2011

Nearly 20% of local authorities which had a safeguarding inspection this year were found to be in...

Councils' fury over new immigration figures

By Mark Conrad | 21 November 2011

Major councils have launched into another critique of official immigration statistics.

Gateshead chief executive to step down

By Michael Burton | 21 November 2011

Gateshead City Council chief executive Roger Kelly announces he is to retire next March.