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SIB on track despite move

By Dan Peters | 31 August 2016

Social impact bond (SIB) providers have insisted the agenda remains on track despite responsibili...

Getting to the business end

By Dan Peters | 31 August 2016

Time is fast approaching on the issue of business rates retention, and local government has a lot...

Merger proposed to secure financial future

By Dan Peters | 23 August 2016

The leader of West Somerset DC has called for his council to merge with Taunton Deane BC to secur...

Reforms will destroy local services link

By Dan Peters | 17 August 2016

Scottish government plans to hand £100m-a-year extra cash raised by council tax reforms straight ...

'Lessons for UK' over schools closure

By Dan Peters | 17 August 2016

Edinburgh City Council’s leader is ‘determined’ the whole UK can learn lessons from an independen...

Whitehall urged to 'keep funding projects'

By Dan Peters | 17 August 2016

Chief executive of Scape Group, Mark Robinson, has urged the Government to plough more cash into ...

Post-Brexit uncertainty plunges finance settlement into chaos

By Dan Peters | 17 August 2016

Council finance directors have expressed concerns about taking up the Government’s offer of a fou...

EXCLUSIVE: DCLG leaves door open for delayed mayoral elections

By Sam Clayden | 17 August 2016

The push to hold a wave of mayoral elections next year may be relaxed as part of a shift in the n...

Devo-health more 'delegation than devolution'

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2016

The devo-health agenda is ‘more delegation than devolution despite promises about full-blooded ch...

Waste permits warning after cash axe

By Dan Peters | 10 August 2016

Councils are being forced to introduce new waste permit schemes to stop neighbouring residents fr...