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Climbing high together

By Dan Peters | 16 November 2022

Jonathan Stephenson tells Dan Peters about the demands and benefits of working between two counci...

Glasgow strikes equal pay deal

By Dan Peters | 10 November 2022

Glasgow City Council has struck a deal with groups representing around 19,000 current and former ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gove to push ahead with light-touch intervention plans

By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022

Senior civil servants are expected to push ahead with plans to introduce more light-touch financi...

Ministers expected to stick with referendum threshold

By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022

Whitehall officials are not expecting returning local government secretary Michael Gove to make c...

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked blackout plans warn people could die

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2022

People could die in an energy blackout as local government services supporting vulnerable people ...

EXCLUSIVE: Councils could resurrect legal action over asylum

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2022

Government attempts to fix the UK’s ‘broken’ asylum system could be hit as West Midlands mets thr...

Making a difference in Bedford

By Dan Peters | 02 November 2022

Bedford BC’s chief executive Laura Church is a fan of unitarisation, but she says it comes with i...

Review exposes 'very serious abuse and neglect'

By Dan Peters | 31 October 2022

Children with disabilities and complex needs suffered ‘very serious abuse and neglect’ at three n...

New cash pledge for Investment Zones

By Mark Conrad | 19 October 2022

Investment zones will be funded with ‘new’ Treasury cash, and not existing local government spend...

Council audit failures hit Government accounts

By Dan Peters | 14 October 2022

Failures in the local audit market in England and Wales mean central Government has ‘poorer quali...