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Dan Peters

Dan Peters

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

House and Sykes battle for LGA role

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

A council leader will battle it out with a backbench councillor to lead the Lib Dem group at the ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Plan to put poor performing kids' services in trust slammed

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Conservative manifesto plans to strip children’s services responsibilities from the ‘weakest coun...

WHITEHALL

Sector fury at Vodafone backtrack

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Telecoms giant Vodafone has ‘annoyed’ councils by back-tracking on plans to unbundle its services...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Councils hit by healthy food scheme's failure

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Councils are counting the cost of participating in a public health scheme designed to improve chi...

FINANCE

Council in bid to rebalance portfolio

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Bath & North East Somerset Council is to rebalance its investment property portfolio as it tries ...

FINANCE

Uncertainty over rates retention

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2017

Local government finance experts have questioned whether the next government will push ahead with...

BUSINESS

Liverpool chief executive to 'step aside' after arrest

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2017

Liverpool City Council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald will 'voluntarily step aside' after he was ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Tory ID check plan could 'put people off voting'

By Dan Peters | 18 May 2017

Plans in the Conservative manifesto to introduce voter identification across the UK are ‘overbear...

ELECTIONS

Tories reveal local government approach in manifesto

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

The Conservatives have revealed a raft of policies on social care, business rates, devolution, ho...

HOUSING

Four out of five sign up to tackle benefit fraud and errors

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

More than four out of five councils have signed up to the Government’s new initiative to tackle h...

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