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HR giant snaps up ad firm

01 July 2009

An advertising firm responsible for handling local authority recruitment has been bought out, aft...

BUSINESS

Outsourcing 'losing appeal' says expert

01 July 2009

Public sector outsourcing is likely to become less attractive to private firms as spending cuts h...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Councillors blame Baby P for morale drop

01 July 2009

Nine out of 10 councillors think the public perception of social services has plummeted since the...

FINANCE

Slump hits tax revenues

01 July 2009

The level of council tax and business rates collected by England’s local authorities dropped this...

FINANCE

Housing benefit reward faces axe

01 July 2009

Local authorities will soon be forced to scrap a popular reward system for housing benefit recipi...

WHITEHALL

CIPFA reveals 40-point manifesto 'to reconnect'

01 July 2009

CIPFA has called on all Whitehall departments, including the CLG, to publish financial estimates ...

WHITEHALL

Money Matters

01 July 2009

The playwright William Shakespeare once wrote, ‘I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which...

BUSINESS

Four firms for first fleet

01 July 2009

Whitehall officials have named four companies which will produce the public sector’s first fleet ...

WHITEHALL

District View

01 July 2009

I think that one of the best ways to assess the overall levels of morale and staff satisfaction ...

WHITEHALL

Policy taken off the shelf

01 July 2009