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The Review

21 October 2010

Local government senior managers and councillors knew the Spending Review would be bad news for t...

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LGA urges Europeans to streamline funding

21 October 2010

The Local Government Association has urged Brussels to merge and simplify complex funding streams...

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Lancashire boroughs agree to share top officer

21 October 2010

Chorley BC and Wyre BC look set to become the latest local authorities to share a chief executive.

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Chiefs rebuff Pickles' appeal to cut salaries

21 October 2010

Chief executives’ union, ALACE, has rebuffed Eric Pickles’ calls for them to take pay cuts, despi...

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Care and health chiefs welcome extra £2bn aid

21 October 2010

Charities and health chiefs have given a cautious welcome to George Osborne’s announcement of an ...

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Social housing 'now scrapped'

21 October 2010

The Government has ‘effectively abolished’ social housing, a leading expert has said

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Pioneers set to test community budgets

21 October 2010

Local authorities chosen to pioneer community-based budgets have welcomed the chancellor’s announ...

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Town halls offered direct control of tax benefit

21 October 2010

The Government has pledged to fund local authority council tax freezes, the chancellor, George Os...

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Review reactions

21 October 2010

Eric Pickles, communities secretary: ‘This settlement and the major reforms… will together allow ...

Baker's recipe for cutting costs

20 October 2010

Quentin Baker has been appointed legal director of Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire’s merged l...