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Bristol battles to save £5m

By Dan Peters | 15 June 2017

Bristol City Council has made a raft of proposals for how to save more than £4.7m.

Employers surprised at 'ambitious' 5% pay claim

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Trade unions today demanded a ‘relatively modest’ pay rise of at least 5% in their claim for 2018...

Lower-tier councils pull out of Sheffield devolution deal

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Bassetlaw DC has become the second lower-tier council to back away from participation in the Shef...

Time for some new school thinking?

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

At a recent The MJ round table, council chief executives and senior managers met to discuss the r...

More business rates lead to Reading making £1m reserves raid

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Reading BC has been forced to raid its reserves by an extra £1m after collecting more business ra...

'Steady progress' for Birmingham

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2017

Birmingham City Council is ‘making steady progress,’ an Ofsted monitoring report has found six mo...

Government cash for affordable housing

By Dan Peters | 13 June 2017

More than £1.75bn will be allocated to councils as part of a Scottish government commitment to st...

'Create STPs as statutory bodies'

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

Sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) should be created as statutory bodies, finan...

Tory policy 'won't aid' UK's social care crisis

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

The Conservatives’ social care policy would cost around £200m a year to run and will do nothing t...

Pension asset balance sheets 'in good health'

By Dan Peters | 06 June 2017

The asset side of local government pension schemes’ (LGPS) balance sheets is in good health, acco...