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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Transport chief questions LEP financing muscle

26 October 2011

Viability of financing large-scale infrastructure projects through local enterprise partnerships ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Furniture freebie

26 October 2011

Gloucestershire CC to hand over surplus furniture to community groups for free as part of plan to...

HEALTH

Councils condemn slow funeral assistance system

26 October 2011

Town halls lament complex system for obtaining financial assistance for funerals at a time of ris...

Haringey to target debtors' homes

26 October 2011

Haringey LBC has warned residents who own empty or abandoned homes and owe the council more than ...

BUSINESS

Haringey takes the private route

26 October 2011

Haringey LBC becomes first London council to transfer management of its cemeteries and crematoria...

BUSINESS

'Metro mayor' plan is right for Liverpool

By Mark Conrad | 26 October 2011

A ‘metro mayor’ is ‘the best single solution to the leadership gap’ constraining Liverpool’s grow...

BUSINESS

Amey awarded West Midlands patient transport contract

By Jonathan Werran | 26 October 2011

Amey lands two four-year contracts to provide transport services delivering patients and medical ...

FINANCE

Councils urged to pursue social investment

26 October 2011

SOLACE and business advisory firm BDO issue joint report urging councils to use social investment...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Maude calls for further civil estate consolidation

By Jonathan Werran | 26 October 2011

Government departments should try to create development opportunities aimed at boosting local gro...

WHITEHALL

Civil service pension agency to be 'mutualised'

By Jonathan Werran | 26 October 2011

Government plans to ‘mutualise’ the civil service pension agency represent ‘a backdoor to privati...