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FINANCE

A costly 'mistake'

07 October 2010

Hertfordshire CC has been given one month to correct its books, after an accounting error totalli...

WHITEHALL

Extreme measures

07 October 2010

Crawley BC hosted a conference last week to inform residents of the work it was doing to prevent ...

Ritchie heads Homes

07 October 2010

Pat Ritchie has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency (HC...

FINANCE

Osborne signals new council benefits powers

07 October 2010

Councils are to be given new responsibilities for capping welfare benefits, the chancellor, Georg...

WHITEHALL

DfE report hails success of local trials to fight poverty

07 October 2010

Ministers this week came under pressure to devolve responsibility for tackling child poverty to l...

Public back councils to run schools says poll

07 October 2010

Councils will continue to play a vital role in shaping education, despite the Conservative Party’...

HEALTH

Top economist reveals true cost of care

07 October 2010

Funding long-term care and benefits for the over-65s will soon cost more than three times the UK’...

HEALTH

Medics join campaigners opposed to NHS reforms

07 October 2010

Opponents of the Government’s health reforms have stepped up their campaign, with warnings over t...

BUSINESS

Group predicts outsourcing boom to ease public finances

07 October 2010

The engineering and support services group, Babcock, has predicted a boom in outsourcing to help ...

BUSINESS

Cornwall connects with £132m broadband deal

07 October 2010

A multimillion-pound project to create a high-speed broadband connection in Cornwall and the Isle...