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Dan Peters

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Ofsted: More to do to improve Birmingham's children's services

By Dan Peters | 20 October 2017

Birmingham City Council has ‘further work’ to do to improve its children’s services, an Ofsted mo...

Rates pilots fuelling fears of two-speed 'unfair' approach

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

The County Councils’ Network (CCN) has warned the Government’s approach to the business rates ret...

MPs to examine impact of Brexit on sector

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

The role councils could play after Brexit will be examined by MPs on the Communities and Local Go...

Labour may drop policy on care

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

Labour may ditch the name of its flagship National Care Service policy, the party’s shadow minist...

£20m for sector-led kids' services

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

The Department for Education (DfE) has signalled a major policy shift with a £20m investment for ...

Counter-fraud pilot successful

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

Councils are encouraged to sign up to a joint counter-fraud initiative with Department for Work a...

Councils warned slow business rates revisions 'unacceptable'

By Mark Conrad | 18 October 2017

Fewer than half of all billing authorities in England have issued revised business rate bills fol...

Council chiefs 'must be sector leaders'

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services’ (ADCS) president has insisted serving counci...

Adult care talks snubbed as tensions grow in sector

By Dan Peters | 18 October 2017

A sector offer to help build cross-party consensus on the way forward for adult social care has b...

Refuges 'not always right solution'

By Dan Peters | 17 October 2017

A top children’s services director has suggested refuges are ‘not always the right solution’ afte...