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Mixed response to DfT handover plan

By Dominic Browne | 08 February 2012

Industry leaders welcome the Department for Transport's plans to hand responsibility for a wider ...

Pickles slams councils' refusal to act on pay transparency

By Dominic Browne | 06 February 2012

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has described as 'insulting' the refusal of some councils to i...

Council officials face tax probe

By Dominic Browne | 03 February 2012

Senior local government officials face a potential Treasury probe into their personal tax affairs.

Southampton council's cuts hit social care

By Dominic Browne | 01 February 2012

Southampton City Council confirms plans to cut 203 posts, as the cash strapped authority tries to...

Shapps attacks councils for 'hoarding' land

By Dominic Browne | 31 January 2012

Grant Shapps has called on councils to stop the 'horrible hoarding' of public land so that it can...

Community trigger' to tackle problem neighbours

By Dominic Browne | 30 January 2012

Home secretary Theresa May outlined plans to give communities in England and Wales tougher protec...

'Bonfire of quangos' cost poised to reach £830m

By Dominic Browne | 25 January 2012

A report by Whitehall's spending watchdog says David Cameron's 'bonfire of the quangos' will cost...

UK social care system 'on brink of collapse'

By Dominic Browne | 25 January 2012

The influential chair of the Commons health committee has warned that the UK's social care system...

MPs issue stark warning over care system

By Dominic Browne | 25 January 2012

An influential group of MPs has raised serious concerns over the future of social care in the UK.

Scotland floats empty homes plan

By Dominic Browne | 24 January 2012

Councils in Scotland could be given more powers to force the sale of empty homes, the Scottish Go...