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FINANCE

Commission mulls over 1.25% audit fee increase

09 July 2009

The Audit Commission has proposed increasing its audit fees by an above-inflation 1.25% this year...

WHITEHALL

End of the waiting game?

09 July 2009

Long-awaited reforms of the care system for older people will help hard-pressed local authorities...

WHITEHALL

LGA chair under fire after pensions comments

09 July 2009

FINANCE

Chief executives lead calls for pay restraint

09 July 2009

The pay claim, put in last September, was no longer deemed appropriate in the current financial c...

WHITEHALL

All hands to the tiller

08 July 2009

As the main political parties gear themselves up for the public sector squeeze, Nick Raynsford fe...

Facing the media storm

08 July 2009

Harrow LBC found itself on the receiving end of a hostile media storm last week for its failed at...

A new beginning at the end

08 July 2009

The Department of Health has launched a document addressing end-of-life care, and wants council m...

WHITEHALL

Expense claims of senior civil servants to go public

08 July 2009

Whitehall’s top 250 civil servants will publish details of their expenses as part of the Cabinet ...

Putting our housing in order

08 July 2009

Last week saw the Government put housing right at the heart of the policy agenda with announcemen...

WHITEHALL

Councils are court in the acts

08 July 2009

Recent court judgements have highlighted the lack of local powers councils wield despite whatever...