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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Focusing on fostering pressures
By Cllr Richard Watts | 29 November 2016
Rising numbers of children entering care means the foster system is under severe pressure. Cllr R...
FINANCE
The quest for financial resilience
By Peter Moore | 29 November 2016
In the face of increasing uncertainty for council treasurers, Peter Moore stresses the importance...
WHITEHALL
Action to back up the Statement
By Bob Neill | 29 November 2016
Bob Neill gives his verdict on the Autumn Statement and explains what the chancellor needs to pri...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Responding to the needs of child asylum seekers
By Dave Hill | 29 November 2016
Local authorities are working hard to support unaccompanied asylum seeking children but swift act...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT OMBUDSMAN
Lessons from the Ombudsman
By Dr Jane Martin | 29 November 2016
As she steps down after seven years as Local Government Ombudsman, Dr Jane Martin reflects on the...
WHITEHALL
Crossing the divide between Whitehall and Town halls
By Sandra Dinneen | 29 November 2016
In the wake of the District Councils' Network Autumn Assemble, Sandra Dinneen comments on the imp...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Skills are the missing link
By Alexandra Jones | 29 November 2016
Alexandra Jones argues that the Government is missing a key piece of the puzzle in its drive to a...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Autumn Statement: Where is the social infrastructure
By Katie Johnston | 28 November 2016
Devolution isn’t just about roads and railways, so where is the chancellor's measures to meet car...
FINANCE
Autumn Statement: Council budgets face bleak future after Hammond's silence
By Heather Jameson | 24 November 2016
Heather Jameson says the chancellor's approach means cracks will soon appear in council finances,...
WHITEHALL
Autumn Statement: Austerity can kicked down the road
By Michael Burton | 23 November 2016
As has been well-trailed chancellor Philip Hammond focussed in his Autumn Statement speech on inv...
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