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FINANCE
Council reprimanded after suffering Cyber attack
By Martin Ford | 28 November 2023
Gloucester City Council has pledged lessons will be learnt following a reprimand from a data watc...
FINANCE
MPs warn services on 'knife edge'
By William Eichler | 28 November 2023
MPs have warned key services are on a ‘knife edge’ due to the poor financial health of councils i...
DEVOLUTION
McMahon returns to Labour frontbench
By Heather Jameson | 28 November 2023
Former Oldham MBC leader Jim McMahon has returned to the opposition frontbench as shadow devoluti...
FINANCE
The Autumn Statement leaves councils to solve their own problems
By Graeme McDonald | 27 November 2023
Few expected the King’s Speech and Autumn Statement to be the silver bullet that solved local gov...
FINANCE
London borough applies for capitalisation direction
By Martin Ford | 27 November 2023
Havering LBC is to apply for a capitalisation direction as it bids to avoid issuing a section 114...
WHITEHALL
Councils welcome PWLB rate extension
By Dan Peters | 27 November 2023
Councils have welcomed chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s decision to extend preferential Public Works Loan...
DEVOLUTION
Rotheram threatened over Covid restrictions
By Martin Ford | 27 November 2023
Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram was assigned 24-hour police security after he received...
WHITEHALL
Pressure for LGA peer review to be strengthened
By Dan Peters | 27 November 2023
Senior Local Government Association (LGA) figures are pushing the organisation to beef up its pee...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Council directors call for ministers to ditch 'senseless' immigration crackdown
By Mark Conrad | 27 November 2023
An influential group of experts – including council directors – has urged ministers to ditch ‘sen...
SOCIAL CARE
The King's Fund: Health and care lack shared understanding on delayed discharges
By Paul Marinko | 27 November 2023
Health and care systems lack a shared understanding of the causes of hospital discharge delays an...
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