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Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

Council aids police with paedophile ring investigation

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Lambeth LBC said it is ‘determined’ to do all it can to hold offenders to account as police inves...

EXCLUSIVE: Call to share more data

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Leading lights in the Troubled Families programme have called for more data to be shared, with th...

Care Act will add costs to councils

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

The Care Act will start to have a big financial impact on councils in 2016/17, it has been predic...

Barclays bids delayed farewell to head of pay committee

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Barclays has confirmed the departure date for the head of its pay committee after pressure from c...

EXCLUSIVE: LGA in row over European cash

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Councils have questioned the Government’s commitment to devolution amid a fierce row over Europea...

BASW: Jail threat will make children less safe

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has warned that the threat to jail public servan...

Counties to open devolution talks with Whitehall

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2015

Council leaders from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire will open devolution talks with Whitehall today.

MPs call for social care to be free at end of life

By Dan Peters | 16 March 2015

Social care should be free at the end of life, the health select committee has said.

Welsh council tax to rise by 4%

By Dan Peters | 13 March 2015

Local authorities in Wales will have £100m more funding in 2015/16 than their counterparts in Eng...

Two councils expand partnership

By Dan Peters | 12 March 2015

Finance is among the departments that two councils have agreed to combine as part of an expanded ...