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FINANCE

Council rent rise of 6% branded 'scandalous'

29 January 2009

Local government has hit out at central Whitehall for raising council rents and restricting counc...

WHITEHALL

Redundancy hotline reveals managers 'expect to lose job'

29 January 2009

Most local government managers now see redundancy as inevitable, the Chartered Management Institu...

WHITEHALL

Normal service resumes as LGA unveils new chief

29 January 2009

The Local Government Association has solved its management problems – by convincing current deput...

WHITEHALL

Has local democracy really got a future?

29 January 2009

Let’s make sure that local elections really matter. Then, perhaps, the Government won’t need to r...

WHITEHALL

The challenge from teenagers

29 January 2009

WHITEHALL

Commuter belt county faces a one-star shock

29 January 2009

A South East county council is set to be named the worst-performing in England next month, after ...

WHITEHALL

Soap Box

29 January 2009

The British state now knows more about its citizens’ views of public services than any other coun...

WHITEHALL

Commuter belt county on the road to one-star status

29 January 2009

Previously-high performing Surrey CC faces a disastrous rating in next month’s CPA results, and h...

WHITEHALL

I'll go if I have to, says departing chief of Cheshire CC

29 January 2009

The chief executive of the soon-to-be dissolved Cheshire CC is to reluctantly quit his post when ...

BUSINESS

Rushcliffe pulls out of joint services agreement

28 January 2009

Rushcliffe BC has told Capita it is breaking off a shared services deal.