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WHITEHALL

Court ruling opens floodgates for pay claims

04 August 2008

Councils that have settled equal pay claims under Single Status laws could be forced to pay out b...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Designed for learning

01 August 2008

School design proposals put forward by LEAs and Building Schools for the Future have been describ...

Pay and Workforce Achievement of the Year

01 August 2008

WHITEHALL

Do councillors really get it?

31 July 2008

Are participative democracy and representative democracy incompatible, or are they just two sides...

Working on commissioning

31 July 2008

The local government White Paper, published earlier this month, aims to devolve power down to ord...

WHITEHALL

Up, up and away

31 July 2008

Bristol City Council’s new chief executive, Jan Ormondroyd, and Helen Holland, leader, are not ju...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Calling all Cumbrians

31 July 2008

Community consultation may be high on the Government’s agenda, but how does one consult? Heather ...

FINANCE

Figuring out the picture

31 July 2008

The Audit Commission’s latest study on chief executive salaries in local authorities fails to tel...

WHITEHALL

District View

31 July 2008

When it comes to communications, if men are from Mars and women are from Venus, what planet shoul...

FINANCE

Battening down the hatches

31 July 2008

As the UK faces up to the possibility of recession, local authority managers must keep their nerv...