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WHITEHALL

Are districts doomed?

03 September 2008

Escalating fuel prices will place new pressures on district council budgets, already struggling t...

WHITEHALL

Councils looking for happiness

03 September 2008

How to be happy is one of life’s most elusive questions. But these days, it’s not just our own ha...

WHITEHALL

A smarter route to efficiency

29 August 2008

Are your staff seeing their work life transformed by efficiency drives? The up-take of ‘smarter’ ...

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

27 August 2008

Winner of the MJ award for Best Achieving Council 2007, Tameside's top-performing team explains h...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

London Assembly seeks residents advice on underage drinkers

27 August 2008

The London Assembly is asking Londoners how they think underage drinking can be curbed in the cap...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Children's data system under fire

26 August 2008

A new computer system forecast to revoluntionise children’s services has been slammed by civil li...

Sandy Bruce-Lockhart 1942-2008

21 August 2008

Following the death of Lord Bruce Lockhart last week, tributes poured into the LocalGov offices. ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

North-South vision rejected by council chief

21 August 2008

Bradford City Council’s chief executive has hit back at the think-tank which branded his city a w...

WHITEHALL

Unemployment is a priority for LAAs

21 August 2008

Fledgling local area agreements regimes withstood their first major test this week, when it emerg...

WHITEHALL

Council employees in Scotland to walk-out

21 August 2008

Scotland is bracing itself for a mass walk-out of town hall staff over pay.