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The battle to reduce the dole queues

08 October 2009

Growing unemployment is exacerbating the public sector deficit at a time when tax revenues have p...

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Why the efficiency agenda must grow up

08 October 2009

Barry Quirk is stepping down as the Government’s efficiency champion. He talks to Heather Jameson...

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A wider brief to share legal costs

08 October 2009

Thirteen districts in Essex have joined the county council to form a new partnership to provide l...

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Industrial action looms as single status talks fail

08 October 2009

Talks between Brighton and Hove City Council and the GMB appear to have broken down, and the unio...

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Geoff Parker's interim position as Charnwood chief

08 October 2009

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Figuring out where the savings have been made

08 October 2009

Following last week’s efficiency statements, released by the communities and local government sec...

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A new association is born

08 October 2009

The role of what used to be committee clerk – and today, democratic services staff – has changed ...

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Plugged In

08 October 2009

Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas and regular contributor to The MJ, succeeded in fu...

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Checking all the small print on those election promises

08 October 2009

Ministers at last week’s Labour Party conference dipped deep into local government’s coffers to m...

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Reasons to be cheerful

08 October 2009

Derek Myers offers an antidote to the current gloom and doom engulfing local authorities