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WHITEHALL

Chief executives' frustration at lack of devolution deal

By Dan Peters | 30 January 2015

The chief executive of Leeds City Council has revealed the ‘cross-party frustration’ at the lack ...

WHITEHALL

Charity calls for end to 'highly centralised' welfare system

By Dan Peters | 28 January 2015

Citizens Advice has called for the decentralisation of welfare benefits in England and an end to ...

WHITEHALL

Government: Councils could do more to provide new homes

By Dan Peters | 28 January 2015

Councils could play a more central role in supporting the provision of new homes, the Government ...

WHITEHALL

Council services to take £1.1bn hit for adult social care

By Dan Peters | 28 January 2015

The escalating cost of caring for the elderly means councils will have to divert £1.1bn from othe...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Herts CC is biggest innovation winner

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

The latest winners from the Department for Education’s £100m innovation programme were expected t...

FINANCE

One-off cash boosts 'not enough'

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

Chief executives caught in the middle of a political row on social care this week have argued one...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Sector-led improvement is 'right approach for future'

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

The senior Local Government Association (LGA) officer in charge of improvement has insisted the s...

HEALTH

Burnham hails Salford integrated care organisation

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

Andy Burnham has hailed the establishment of an integrated care organisation in Salford as the ‘c...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

VIDEO: Ex-children's head sidelined over Rotherham CSE cases

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

A former director of children’s services at Rotherham MBC has been sidelined from her job in Aust...

HEALTH

BCF spend 'eroded by extra burdens'

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

Financial problems, winter pressures and extra burdens piled on the health service has eroded the...

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