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Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

SOLACE Summit: £11bn of extra responsibilities for councils

By Dan Peters | 07 October 2015

Local government will have to take on £11bn of additional responsibilities from Whitehall in retu...

Chief's frustration over geography issue

By Dan Peters | 07 October 2015

A chief executive involved in devolution talks has expressed her ‘frustration’ that the Governmen...

Changing places

By Dan Peters | 06 October 2015

Dan Peters reports on how the face of senior management in local government has changed since 2010.

MJ survey reveals drop in senior numbers

By Dan Peters | 06 October 2015

The number of senior council officers has plummeted by almost a quarter (23.2%) in five years, ex...

Chorley makes £1m profit from town centre purchase

By Dan Peters | 06 October 2015

Council plans to extend a shopping centre have been approved, paving the way for the authority to...

New rules to stop 'playground politics'

By Dan Peters | 05 October 2015

New rules will stop politically motivated boycott and divestment campaigns against UK defence com...

DCN proposes district clusters model

By Dan Peters | 02 October 2015

District clusters could take on powers including housing, planning and regeneration under a doubl...

Referendum call over council merger plan

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

Welsh Conservatives have pledged to give local residents a referendum on any proposed council mer...

Cracking the code

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

Many believe in the need for an ethical code for officers to follow and, in the wake of SOLACE’s ...

SOLACE code needs to have 'more bite'

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

A committee will be formed to develop the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives’ (SOLACE) c...