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Pickles poised to ease access to grant funds

09 July 2010

Communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is poised to remove legal hurdles governing the use of cash ...

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Study exposes 'shocking' rate of Neet levels

08 July 2010

Up to one on four youths in England could be unemployed and not in education or training followin...

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Sector facing £12bn cash reduction

08 July 2010

Local government will lose ‘at least one-third’ – or £12bn – of its central funding over the next...

County fury over plans to scrap BSF

08 July 2010

Top-performing Conservative Kent CC has hit out at the Government’s decision to scale back the Bu...

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Cut Whitehall 'to protect frontline'

08 July 2010

Frontline jobs will only be protected by cutting across Whitehall departments, the LGA has warned.

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Pickles stokes tensions

08 July 2010

Communities secretary, Eric Pickles, surprised delegates at the LGA’s annual conference this week...

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Hill scales the heights

08 July 2010

Lincolnshire CC leader, Martin Hill, has been named Leader of the Year by the LGIU. He tells Heat...

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Plugged In

08 July 2010

This country is in the first throes of some significant ‘change management’, says Rod Aldridge.

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Is there a future for local strategic partnerships?

08 July 2010

If local strategic partnerships are going to be useful, they must shift their role from place-sha...

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Building recovery on our collective strengths

08 July 2010

If public services really are empowered to deliver what their communities need, then we have the ...