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Separate audit is needed for housing benefit work

By Dan Peters | 22 March 2017

Section 151 officers have been reminded they will have to procure accountants to carry out their ...

Unitary plan would 'pull council off see-saw'

By Dan Peters | 15 March 2017

South Northamptonshire DC has warned that unitary plans by ‘financially-stricken’ Oxfordshire CC ...

'Ambitious' health integration plans look to be 'scaled back'

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

The Government has scaled back on achieving full health and social care integration by 2020, it h...

'Brexit wil make more work for small firms,' says Javid

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has said the Government will use Brexit to make it easier for s...

One in three upper-tier councils face 'severe financial challenges'

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

At least one in three of England’s 152 upper-tier councils are facing ‘severe financial challenge...

Councils prepared to lose cash after Brexit

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Council negotiators have resigned themselves to taking a financial hit from Brexit as they contin...

Benefit changes warning

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Hackney LBC has warned MPs about the Government’s attempt to ‘rush through’ benefit changes to th...

Council approves £9m hospital loan

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Senior councillors have approved a £9.2m loan to help Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation...

Jones to leave think-tank to work with Clark

By Dan Peters | 10 March 2017

The chief executive of the Centre for Cities think-tank, Alexandra Jones, has been hired to head ...

Budget 2017: Hammond announces £2bn social care cash

By Dan Peters | 08 March 2017

Chancellor Philip Hammond has promised additional grant funding of £2bn over the next three years...