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Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

Directors call for £1bn emergency funding

By Dan Peters | 30 January 2017

Councils could fail to meet to meet their statutory duties without ‘emergency’ government funding...

Warning over future for care home providers

By Dan Peters | 25 January 2017

Councils have called for ‘urgent and genuinely new’ funding for social care amid fresh warnings t...

LGA backs districts following Whitehall raid on NHB budget

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

The Local Government Association (LGA) has backed furious districts angry after Whitehall raided ...

Government climbdown possible over revaluation

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

The Government has cooled on its wish to move from five-yearly to three-yearly business rate reva...

Emergency rules aim to quell delays to NI rate collection

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

Westminster may be forced to step in with emergency legislation to ensure Northern Irish councils...

Finance settlement consultation offers no room for movement

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

Councils have been told that there is ‘little chance of any movement’ during the local government...

EXCLUSIVE: Lack of confidence in adult social care strategy exposed

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

The true scale of feeling across local government about the escalating social care crisis is reve...

Call for Whitehall to 'publish grant details'

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

A council has vowed not to give up its quest to get the Government to publish details about the a...

Inter-authority loans put councils under pressure

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

A growing rate of inter-authority lending could be creating a complex web of interaction that tie...

How do we solve a problem like care?

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017

Funding pressures in adult social care have permeated the national press lately. Dan Peters analy...