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FINANCE
Councils push back budgets
By Martin Ford | 05 February 2024
Uncertainties over funding have forced councils to push back their budget-setting with the deadli...
FINANCE
Gove sheds light on productivity plans
By Martin Ford | 05 February 2024
Communities secretary Michael Gove has released further details of the Government's productivity ...
WHITEHALL
Call for Government clarity over waste allocations
By Dan Peters | 05 February 2024
A senior sector figure has called for clarity and certainty about how much funding councils will ...
BUSINESS
Sector should adopt national branding campaign to boost workforce
By Mark Conrad | 05 February 2024
Local government should adopt a national branding campaign to recruit and retain staff amid a wor...
HOUSING
Scotland's homelessness system 'at risk of failure'
By Martin Ford | 02 February 2024
Scotland’s homelessness system is on the brink of collapse, according to the country’s housing wa...
PLANNING
New legal bid as long-term asylum site plans confirmed
By Ellie Ames | 02 February 2024
A council has launched a fresh judicial review after Government confirmed its intention to use RA...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Council hands police file on £1m pay-outs
By William Eichler | 02 February 2024
A file relating to allegedly unlawful exit payments to managers at Northumberland CC has been han...
PLANNING
Officer-member relations 'fractured' at Wrexham
By Ellie Ames | 01 February 2024
Issues in Wrexham CBC’s planning service mean it is hindered in fulfilling its role, an audit has...
WHITEHALL
Core Cities in Household Support Fund warning
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2024
Failing to extend the Household Support Fund will be ‘catastrophic for many people in our poorest...
SOCIAL CARE
Former social care chief sentenced for drug offences
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2024
An ex-deputy director of social care at Bradford MDC has been sentenced after pleading guilty to ...
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