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Dim view of Beacon

21 April 2011

You may be familiar with cutbacks to playgrounds, but playgrounds are still being built… sort of.

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FOUR-WHEELDRIVEWOMAN... ON COUNCIL SPENDING

21 April 2011

Tarquin, stop that immediately or I shall cut your pocket money. And you know you wanted to keep ...

Hirsch to leave mid Devon DC

21 April 2011

A cost-saving move which could see Mid Devon DC sharing a chief executive with another local auth...

Langstaff to retire from Nottingham City Homes

21 April 2011

The chief executive of Nottingham City Homes, Chris Langstaff, has announced his intention to ret...

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Mandarins and unions launch legal challenge over index plan

By Mark Conrad | 21 April 2011

Mandarins are supporting a judicial review of the Treasury’s decision to change the index used to...

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Mutual likely to take on 1.5m civil service pensions

By Mark Conrad | 21 April 2011

Pension administration for up to 1.5 million civil servants will be outsourced to a mutual made u...

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Ministers unveil team to get taxpayers best deal

By Mark Conrad | 21 April 2011

Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, has appointed a team of Whitehall procurement experts to ...

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Exclusive: New leader's fears over Suffolk CC staff morale

By Mark Conrad | 21 April 2011

Suffolk CC’s leader-elect will review the county’s controversial New Strategic Direction (NSD), a...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Just one in 10 people plan to volunteer says Hansard

20 April 2011

A political research group has claimed just one in 10 people will definitely volunteer over the n...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Sector divided over curbs on grant cuts

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 April 2011

Charity and local authority leaders remain divided over Eric Pickles’ plans to stop councils cutt...