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LEPs 'needlessly frozen out' on skills

By Dan Peters | 27 June 2022

Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) are being ‘needlessly frozen out’ of bidding for skills fundi...

Minister admits new homes target 'stretching'

By Dan Peters | 27 June 2022

A minister has admitted that the Government’s ambition for 300,000 new homes to be built a year i...

Council hosting monument decries Windrush funding

By Dan Peters | 27 June 2022

The council hosting the new national Windrush monument has decried the lack of Government funding...

EXCLUSIVE: Councils told to budget more for pay

By Dan Peters | 27 June 2022

Councils are busy reviewing their budgets after hearing more funding will be needed for higher-th...

Adult social care inspections ahead

By Dan Peters | 21 June 2022

Whitehall officials are drawing up a controversial adult social care inspections system after the...

Minister tells councils not to depend on fine income

By Dan Peters | 20 June 2022

Councils should not be depending on income from litter fines when drawing up their future budgets...

Veolia to sell Suez UK waste business

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2022

French-owned waste management firm Veolia has proposed selling Suez’s UK waste business after reg...

Travers to join consultancy

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2022

Lambeth LBC chief executive Andrew Travers will move to Inner Circle Consulting (ICC) after five ...

Driscoll urges Labour to back fiscal devolution

By Dan Peters | 13 June 2022

North of Tyne’s Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll has urged his party to back fiscal devolution.

Fresh strike warning for sector

By Dan Peters | 13 June 2022

Unions have warned of more local government strikes.