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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...

WHITEHALL

PluggedIn

31 July 2008

A report by the London School of Economics found that almost one in five 16 to 17-year-olds in th...

WHITEHALL

SoapBox

31 July 2008

Council leaders in the North West are proud of the fact that they have become the first in the co...

WHITEHALL

An unfair cover-up

31 July 2008

A long-standing, upper-tier local authority chief executive, who wishes to remain anonymous, deli...

FINANCE

Welsh Assembly sets debt timetable for Vale of Glamorgan

30 July 2008