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WHITEHALL
Council eyes cutting back rubbish collection
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024
A council could reduce how often it picks up household rubbish that cannot be recycled or compost...
FINANCE
Think-tank's call for landfill tax devolution
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024
A think-tank has called for a portion of the proceeds from landfill tax to be devolved to councils.
DATA
Councils should get traffic light grading, say accountants
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024
Oflog should grade councils using a traffic-light-style ranking system, chartered accountants hav...
WHITEHALL
Oflog co-design promises have been broken, say councils
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024
Ministerial promises to ‘co-design’ the Office for Local Government (Oflog) with the sector have ...
WHITEHALL
Support for Zane's Law gathers momentum
By Mark Conrad | 02 April 2024
Two more councils have backed calls for greater transparency over contaminated land and waters fo...
HEALTH
Devolve NHS England's £168bn budget to local government, says report
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2024
NHS England’s £168bn budget should be handed to local government in a radical restructure, the Re...
PEOPLE
Herefordshire DCS leaves in wake of critical Ofsted
By Martin Ford | 28 March 2024
Herefordshire CC’s director for children’s services has left the authority following criticism of...
DEVOLUTION
Parties draw battlelines for local elections
By Martin Ford | 28 March 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given a speech in Dudley today following campaign launches by ...
CRIME
Finley Boden: Council apologises for 'missed opportunities'
By William Eichler | 28 March 2024
Derbyshire CC has apologised for the ‘missed opportunities’ to do more to safeguard 10-month-old ...
FINANCE
Auditors concerned by slow transformation
By Mark Conrad | 27 March 2024
Scotland’s Accounts Commission is ‘extremely concerned’ by slow transformation at Moray Council, ...
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