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WHITEHALL

Making savings with 'no cost' to services

24 September 2009

Two councils have announced efficiency savings running into millions of pounds that will not hit ...

Show homes

24 September 2009

As work gets under way on 2,000 new homes, Ted Czerniak hopes it is just the start of a wide-scal...

WHITEHALL

Surrey loses its dunce's cap

24 September 2009

Judged the worst-performing county in the last CPA because of failings in children’s services, Su...

WHITEHALL

Signing up with the culture club

24 September 2009

For a small district, Fenland DC has learned to think big. Heather Jameson attended a recent cult...

WHITEHALL

Would we start from here

24 September 2009

If you were designing local government, you wouldn’t create what we have now, argues Stephen Tayl...

FINANCE

Opt-out 'not an option'

24 September 2009

Employers’ head, Jan Parkinson, has warned that attempts to opt out of the national pay bargainin...

FINANCE

New bid to create 'safe' home for town hall cash

24 September 2009

Plans to improve the way councils manage £30bn in cash assets in the wake of the Icelandic bankin...

Lib Dem claims to build more homes dismissed

24 September 2009

Housing minister, John Healey, has dismissed Liberal Democrat claims they would build more social...

FINANCE

County bid to end equal pay dispute

23 September 2009

Cumbria CC has made individual settlement offers, in a bid to end a long-running equal pay dispute.

WHITEHALL

Never look a gift horse...

22 September 2009