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WHITEHALL

Ministers 'exploiting' business with rate mechanism

14 January 2009

Municipal leaders have accused ministers of ‘exploiting’ businesses and undermining local economi...

WHITEHALL

Home Office grant shows crime pays

14 January 2009

Police authorities are set to receive a new year present of £5m from the Home Office, after seizi...

WHITEHALL

Liverpool defies 'sneering' critics and delivers a Capital success

14 January 2009

The success of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture project ‘hung by a thread’ at times last y...

FINANCE

Public bodies' housing 'perks' spark criticism

14 January 2009

Public bodies came under fire this week for paying senior executives tens of thousands of pounds ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Social workers face intense retraining following Baby P

14 January 2009

Children’s secretary, Ed Balls, has launched a Whitehall-based plan to improve children’s service...

WHITEHALL

Who next to lead the LGA?

14 January 2009

As we head into a new year, local government faces some of its toughest challenges, with a new go...

WHITEHALL

District View

14 January 2009

With such a strong national and international focus on the tough economic climate, it would seem ...

WHITEHALL

Bala's Basildon bond

14 January 2009

Heather Jameson meets the chief executive of a strategically-important Essex district.

Decent homes should be decent communities

14 January 2009

The Decent Homes programme, although well intentioned, does not actually offer a long-term soluti...

FINANCE

Rising to the productivity challenge

14 January 2009

Emma Lonergan identifies a number of suggestions which could help senior executives transform the...