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Authority opts to expand property portfolio in bid to fund services

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2016

A council has expanded its commercial property portfolio to help generate alternative sources of ...

Leave vote 'risk to UK investments'

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2016

Billions of pounds of UK investment could be put at risk by the vote to leave the European Union.

Shake-up is 'inevitable' despite setbacks

By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016

Local government reorganisation remains an inevitability despite a major blow to flagship plans b...

EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog to probe final funding deal

By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016

Auditors are poised to probe a last-minute government decision to gift some councils £300m transi...

TV probe forces council to announce trust takeover option

By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016

A takeover of Birmingham City Council’s children’s services by a trust was always going to be con...

Whitehall's council interventions probed

By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016

An inquiry into the Government interventions at Tower Hamlets LBC and Rotherham MBC has been laun...

Councils keen on sector-led audit deals

By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016

More than 200 councils and other local bodies have indicated they would be interested in a sector...

Oldham accounts 'on course to beat previous records'

By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016

Oldham MBC is on track to beat its own record for how quickly it can prepare its accounts.

Rogers: Trust option 'shouldn't be surprising'

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2016

A takeover of Birmingham City Council’s children’s services by a trust was always going to be con...

Flagship unitary bid binned

By Dan Peters | 19 May 2016

Flagship plans by Oxfordshire districts to create four unitaries that would have spilt out into n...