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Dan Peters

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Freer: Start thinking about future of audit

By Dan Peters | 07 July 2016

Local government must start thinking about future audit arrangements today, the chairman of the s...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Place leadership 'absolutely essential'

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2016

Place leadership is ‘absolutely essential’ to chief executives wanting to improve their councils ...

FINANCE

Stockton gets 'cautious go-ahead' to borrow £17m

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2016

Prudential borrowing of up to £17m has been approved by Stockton-on-Tees BC to build a 125-bedroo...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Council silence over resource director's status

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2016

Herefordshire Council has refused to answer questions about the status of its director of resourc...

WHITEHALL

'Biggest reforms in a generation' for kids

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2016

The Government’s approach to intervening in failing services will be strengthened as part of the ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Casey: Rebuilding trust is vital to sector success

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2016

A new deal between the public and politicians is needed to rebuild trust, extremism tsar Louise C...

FINANCE

Councils face negative credit rating after Brexit

By Dan Peters | 01 July 2016

Four councils have had their credit rating outlooks downgraded from stable to negative in the wak...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Open scrutiny on government interventions

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2016

Dan Peters examines government intervention in children’s services and asks whether greater trans...

REORGANISATION

DCs eye merger options as part of restructure

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2016

Two district councils in Somerset are looking at a possible merger as one of a number of restruct...

DEVOLUTION

London mayor calls for fiscal devo for capital

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2016

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has made a fresh plea for fiscal devolution for the capital in the w...

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