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WHITEHALL

Call for freedom to help young jobless

01 July 2009

Councils should be allowed to fund youth employment or training projects by drawing on projected ...

FINANCE

Questions over cash for housing

01 July 2009

Local government has been put centre-stage in building homes and the economy – but it is as yet u...

FINANCE

Commission to cut workforce

01 July 2009

The Audit Commission is to slash its workforce as part of the watchdog’s efforts to be ‘exemplary...

WHITEHALL

Sector 'must share burden' of downturn

01 July 2009

The public sector must share the burden of the recession, the Welsh Local Government Association ...

WHITEHALL

Good care 'can bring rewards'

01 July 2009

Good councils can make a real difference to the lives of young people leaving care, according to ...

WHITEHALL

Councils triumph at The MJ's awards

01 July 2009

It was a night of a thousand stars… before almost 1,000 people at London’s Hilton Hotel, Park Lan...

'Digital divide' for rural areas

01 July 2009

People in rural England are at risk of being left behind in the roll out of digital services, a g...

FINANCE

Councils have 'key role' to ease effects of slump

01 July 2009

The Association of Public Sector Excellence (APSE) has written to the Government urging ministers...

WHITEHALL

Two more districts to share top team

01 July 2009

Richmondshire and Hambleton DCs have revealed they will share a new chief executive, who they hav...

FINANCE

Uncertain future for troubled provider

01 July 2009

Time is running out to refinance the heavily-indebted social care provider, Four Seasons Healthca...