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Rogers blows whistle on policies

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

Birmingham City Council’s chief executive has urged other councils to check their whistleblowing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall to increase use of 'external experts' to aid failing children's services

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

External experts will be increasingly called in to support weak or failing children’s social care...

Complex accounts 'obstacle to public scrutiny'

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

Finance chiefs have been lobbying the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) over...

Hampshire Community Bank project goes ahead

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

Backers of what is hoped will be the first community bank of its kind in the country believe the ...

Legal panel paves way for LGPS framework expansion

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

A panel of legal advisors have been appointed as the number of frameworks available for members o...

West Yorkshire still waiting for devolution Christmas present

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

West Yorkshire and the Leeds city region are still waiting for a devolution deal that had been ex...

The mayor the merrier?

By Dan Peters | 12 January 2015

Dan Peters talks to leading local government figures to assess whether directly-elected mayors ar...

Minister: Mayor and commissioner role could be combined

By Dan Peters | 12 January 2015

New directly elected mayors could take over the role of police and crime commissioners (PCCs), ho...

Drive towards self-sustainability

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2015

South Staffordshire has gone the extra mile to ensure local growth and guarantee authority is wel...

Senior posts to be axed at Redbridge

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2015

Three senior posts could be axed at Redbridge LBC less than three years after the last major revi...