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HEALTH

Pool resources to create 'super carer' urges think-tank

06 July 2011

Budgets must be pooled to create a new breed of better-paid, professional home carers, a think-ta...

WHITEHALL

Departments struggle to cope as need for Freedom takes toll

06 July 2011

The drive to increase transparency is resulting in departments struggling to keep pace with a ris...

WHITEHALL

Report reveals scale of errors at FiReControl

By Jonathan Werran | 06 July 2011

Over-reliance on poorly-managed consultants and a cultural inability to share bad news contribute...

FINANCE

Birmingham says it can cope with £2bn debt

06 July 2011

Birmingham City Council has played down concerns over its ability to cope with rising debt levels,

FINANCE

LGG wants a voice at pension reform talks

By Mark Conrad | 06 July 2011

Town hall employers have said they want to join Whitehall-union negotiations over local governmen...

Officer sacked after poking fun at ministers on twitter

06 July 2011

Reports have suggested a civil servant has been dismissed from the DCLG pending an appeal, after ...

FINANCE

Money Matters

06 July 2011

Share and share alike is a plea often made by parents to get children to play together better.

Ed's just so rock and roll

06 July 2011

The Labour Party’s finest are pock-marked with the scars of encounters between themselves and roc...

Don't put Eric on a plinth

06 July 2011

Communities secretary, Eric Pickles, strikes Diary as a man who does not pine for absent public a...

All present and correct..?

06 July 2011

This year’s Local Government Association conference in Birmingham seemed to be the place to be la...