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WHITEHALL

Devo bids process blasted for promoting 'short-term' plans

By Dan Peters | 03 September 2015

A senior sector figure has suggested the Treasury’s devolution bid process encourages a short-ter...

FINANCE

Island Deal vital to IoW survival

By Dan Peters | 03 September 2015

A small unitary has warned it faces likely ‘financial failure’ unless it secures a unique deal wi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

'Long wait for Greater Manchester trickle-down'

By Dan Peters | 02 September 2015

Medium-sized cities and smaller urban areas must not be ignored at the expense of larger northern...

FINANCE

DCLG grants £4.37m to fund Birmingham improvement

By Dan Peters | 01 September 2015

Birmingham City Council will speed up work on its improvement programme thanks to a £4.37m grant ...

WHITEHALL

Public health cut 'short-sighted'

By Dan Peters | 28 August 2015

The Government’s proposed in-year cut to the public health budget is ‘short-sighted, short-term a...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA chair Porter given peerage

By Dan Peters | 27 August 2015

Local Government Association (LGA) chairman Gary Porter has been unveiled as a new Tory peer in t...

WHITEHALL

Chief executives criticise exit payment cap

By Dan Peters | 27 August 2015

Council chief executives have given short shrift to government plans for a new £95,000 cap on exi...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

One Year From Jay: Rotherham could 'win back powers in 2017'

By Dan Peters | 25 August 2015

The head of the intervention team sent in to turn around Rotherham MBC hopes to hand back ‘some o...

WHITEHALL

Yorkshire-wide devolution bid ditched

By Dan Peters | 24 August 2015

Ambitious devolution proposals for the whole of Yorkshire appear to have been ditched.

FINANCE

Chief executive role reinstated

By Dan Peters | 24 August 2015

The leader of Northumberland CC has defended a decision to reinstate the role of chief executive ...

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