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Dan Peters

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'Give NI councils powers to do their jobs'

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

Northern Irish councils should be given the ‘power and the resources to do the job’ while Stormon...

No 10 accused of halting unitary plans over backbench rebellion fear

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

The Government’s wafer-thin majority frightened prime minister Theresa May away from approving pl...

EXCLUSIVE: 'Silly' orders hindering key information sharing

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

Councils are struggling to share key information with NHS trusts and Whitehall because guidance o...

Warning over 'proxy vote' as elections clash

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

The local elections could be turned into a ‘proxy vote on party politics and Brexit’ by the Gener...

Guide to championing civic crowdfunding launched

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

A new guidebook to help empower local authorities ‘champion’ civic crowdfunding will be sent to c...

'Delay rollout of 100% rates retention by at least a year'

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

The rollout of 100% business rates retention should be pushed back by at least a year, the chair ...

Casey to leave government after two decades

By Dan Peters | 21 April 2017

Senior civil servant Dame Louise Casey has announced she will be leaving government in the summer...

Scrap private finance for public buildings, says Unite

By Dan Peters | 20 April 2017

Trade union Unite has called for the use of private finance to build public buildings in Scotland...

Whitehall to improve homelessness stats

By Dan Peters | 20 April 2017

The Government has pledged to continue to work with the UK Statistics Authority to make its homel...

UC rollout: pause needed

By Dan Peters | 20 April 2017

Councils have called for a ‘longer pause’ in the rollout of Universal Credit amid the emergence o...