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TV doc to highlight council borrowing

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2015

Councils have been urged to stop borrowing from private banks by debt campaigners as a TV documen...

Clark invites LG Challenge winner to Whitehall

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2015

Communities secretary Greg Clark has invited the winner of the Local Government Challenge award t...

LGA 2015: Labour leadership candidates do battle over local government

By Dan Peters | 02 July 2015

Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has accused the Government of ‘trying to do devolution w...

LGA 2015: Government accused of referendum hypocrisy

By Dan Peters | 02 July 2015

Three in five councils do not think they can make any more efficiencies, the Local Government Ass...

LGA 2015: Integration alone will not deliver savings

By Dan Peters | 02 July 2015

Council chiefs are 'deluded' if they think integration alone will meet the scale of the financial...

LGA 2015: Clark hails big moment for local government

By Dan Peters | 01 July 2015

New communities secretary Greg Clark has told this year's Local Government Association conference...

LGA 2015: Chief executive changed crisis response

By Dan Peters | 01 July 2015

Award-winning investigative journalist Andrew Norfolk has hailed the response of Rochdale MBC's c...

Councils 'must seek new cash for growth'

By Dan Peters | 01 July 2015

New sources of finance will be needed for council economic development activities if the focus on...

New system 'costs just £20m'

By Dan Peters | 01 July 2015

The Local Government Association (LGA) has launched a publicity push on the benefits of sector-le...

York's review will save £150k

By Dan Peters | 01 July 2015

The third major review of the City of York Council’s senior management structure in six years wil...