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WHITEHALL

Are redundancies a matter for the council or executive?

05 April 2011

Legislation suggests that the full council ought to be the final arbiter of lay-offs rather than ...

WHITEHALL

New chapter for borough libraries

05 April 2011

Last Saturday – 5 February – was national ‘Save our libraries day’, being championed in councils ...

Bridging the funding gap on police reform

05 April 2011

Police authorities and their forces face a ‘perfect storm’ of sharp budget cuts and major structu...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A single public sector estate

05 April 2011

Embracing 12 public sector partners, the Suffolk Property Partnership aims to realise the vision ...

WHITEHALL

Technology is the key

05 April 2011

Support for public sector professionals in 2011 must not be limited by our imagination or by geog...

WHITEHALL

We're getting on with the job

05 April 2011

Two districts in Lincolnshire have together formed a local authority-owned company to deliver bac...

WHITEHALL

Demonstrators give 'easyCouncil' Barnet a hard time

05 April 2011

Campaigners have held a street protest to demonstrate about planned cuts in services to Barnet LBC.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Officers given powers to gang up on hooligans

05 April 2011

Police, council and probation officers across England and Wales look set to gain new powers to ta...

FINANCE

Pickles shifts pay focus to council middle management

05 April 2011

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has announced plans to name all council staff earning more tha...

FINANCE

Coalition cuts will 'destroy' volunteering

05 April 2011

Government spending cuts are ‘destroying’ volunteering and undermining the prime minister’s ‘Big ...