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WHITEHALL

Squaring the circle: working with the wider public sector

19 March 2009

Local government has made huge efficiency gains, but if it is to go further, it must cross the or...

WHITEHALL

District View

19 March 2009

Customer insight is very much ‘flavour of the month’ within local government circles at present.

WHITEHALL

The new chief at City Hall

19 March 2009

Boris Johnson’s new chief executive, Leo Boland, is just a few weeks into his job, and tells Mic...

Taking the controls

19 March 2009

Control of a service should rest with the individuals who receive it. They are, after all, the pe...

FINANCE

Council pension funds join war on banks

19 March 2009

A question of care

19 March 2009

Jon Hanlon looks at a new survey into adult social services provided by local authorities, and fi...

WHITEHALL

Call for councils to jump in for free swim

18 March 2009

Unallocated Government funds for free swimming will be given to help councils who have signed up ...

FINANCE

Unions afraid pension sharing plans will be 'rushed through'

18 March 2009

FINANCE

Don't ditch 'unethical' investments councils told

18 March 2009

Councils were this week urged to encourage engagement with firms in which town hall pensions are ...

National inquiry call to look into 'freeze fiasco'

18 March 2009

Ministers have been challenged by the LGA over transport spending following February’s freeze fia...