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Unitary deputy takes top Cumbria job

By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016

Cumbria CC has named Warrington Council’s second in command, Katherine Fairclough, as its new chi...

Social care precept 'deeply flawed' policy

By Sam Clayden | 12 December 2016

Patching the social care funding gap with short-term fixes will cause the sector to lurch from on...

EXCLUSIVE: Tory council mulls referendum on 16% tax rise

By Sam Clayden | 09 December 2016

Surrey CC is understood to be considering holding a referendum to increase council tax by 16% as ...

Chief's pledge to improve failing children's services

By Sam Clayden | 09 December 2016

Tameside MBC’s chief executive has insisted the council has embarked on an improvement journey af...

Failure to fund social care is a 'moral issue and false economy'

By Sam Clayden | 08 December 2016

Ministers have been urged to turn back £5.5bn of real terms cuts after fresh NHS figures revealed...

STP could 'intensify' council funding pressures

By Sam Clayden | 08 December 2016

Measures to cut hospital admissions in Birmingham and Solihull could shunt costs from the NHS ont...

Dugdale: Reverse attack on local democracy

By Sam Clayden | 07 December 2016

The Scottish Labour leader has outlined radical plans to reshape the UK into a federal state and ...

Councils upbeat about defeating trusts' demands for rates relief

By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2016

Councils are quietly confident of defeating NHS trusts’ claim for mandatory business rates relief...

Children's services approaching 'tipping point'

By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2016

The country’s most senior children’s services director has warned that the sector is facing a ‘ti...

Ombudsmen welcome complaints system reform

By Sam Clayden | 05 December 2016

Ombudsmen have welcomed the Government’s proposed reforms to the ‘complex and fragmented’ complai...