Articles by Sam Clayden
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...
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