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Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

Town halls must find more cash for wages

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Paul Marinko | 06 April 2022

Councils have been warned they will have to find more in their budgets to fund the sector’s incre...

Councils to call for greater devo after White Paper

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2022

The local government sector is to make the case for greater devolution beyond the Levelling Up Wh...

Sector set to clash over rates reform

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2022

A sector clash is threatening to erupt over business rates retention, with views split on the fut...

Pressure put on Treasury for extra COVID cash

By Dan Peters | 21 March 2022

The UK’s health agency has been adding to pressure on the Treasury to hand millions of pounds of ...

LGA to water down out-of-area protocol

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2022

The Local Government Association (LGA) will water down its proposals for a sector-wide agreement ...

London pension pool issues Russian investment edict

By Dan Peters | 17 March 2022

The pension pool tasked with managing investment funds for London’s local government schemes has ...

Gove urges pension funds to add to Russian pressure

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2022

Levelling up secretary Michael Gove has urged local government pension scheme (LGPS) committee ch...

Census delay could hit finance reforms

By Dan Peters | 11 March 2022

A delay to the publication of the first results from last year’s census could hit local governmen...

Slough commissioners sack chief for 'gross misconduct'

By Dan Peters | 09 March 2022

Slough Council’s commissioners have sacked chief executive Josie Wragg for ‘gross misconduct’ wit...

EXCLUSIVE: Week-long strike over pay to hit sector

By Dan Peters | 08 March 2022

Council workers are expected to strike for a week this month in the first coordinated industrial ...