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Dan Peters

Dan Peters

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WHITEHALL

Call for Government to share more data with councils

By Dan Peters | 05 June 2023

Councils are struggling to reach households hit by the cost of living crisis due to the Governmen...

WHITEHALL

Councils urge Government not to delay waste reforms

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2023

Councils have urged the Government not to delay landmark environmental reforms that would shift t...

PAY

Unite in summer strike warning

By Dan Peters | 01 June 2023

Trade union Unite has warned summer strike action will hit key events after talks with the Conven...

WHITEHALL

'Devastating implications' warning over data threat

By Dan Peters | 30 May 2023

A Government threat to suspend council access to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data will...

WHITEHALL

Fraud flaw in energy scheme

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

The Energy Bill Support Scheme (EBSS) announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when he was chancel...

BUSINESS

Councils wait for Capita reassurance

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

Unhappy councils are seeking assurances from revenues and benefits software supplier Capita there...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Chief executive peers can escape peer challenge scrutiny, LGA admits

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

Chief executives who volunteer as peers do not have to have a corporate peer challenge (CPC) in t...

FINANCE

Harris to take interest in Oflog-audit interplay

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2023

The Financial Reporting Council’s first director of local audit wants to take a closer look at th...

WHITEHALL

Questions raised over asylum hotels pledge

By Dan Peters and Mark Conrad | 23 May 2023

Senior council figures have questioned whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to end the use...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall lobbied to expand Oflog metrics

By Dan Peters | 22 May 2023

Parts of the sector are pushing Whitehall officials to expand new watchdog Oflog’s metrics despit...

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