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Future Forum North: Funding uncertainty could hamper integration partnerships

By Sam Clayden | 05 December 2016

Efforts to integrate health and local government partnerships could grind to a halt if the Govern...

Future Forum North: Devo focus moves away from transformation

By Sam Clayden | 05 December 2016

The focus of the devolution agenda has shifted away from public service transformation under the ...

Bleak outlook for council's finances

By Sam Clayden | 29 November 2016

Auditors have warned that Birmingham City Council could face serious financial risks beyond next ...

Council slammed over 'widespread children's failures'

By Sam Clayden | 29 November 2016

Children’s services at Kirklees MBC have been slammed as inadequate due to ‘serious and widesprea...

Birmingham trust will 'accelerate' improvement of failing children's services

By Sam Clayden | 25 November 2016

The new chair of Birmingham City Council’s children’s trust has insisted that the new model will ...

Sheena Ramsey to return to the North East

By Sam Clayden | 24 November 2016

Gateshead MBC has appointed Sheena Ramsey as its new chief executive.

Autumn Statement: No cash for ailing social care

By Sam Clayden | 23 November 2016

Local government and health bosses have reacted with fury after the chancellor failed to address ...

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to elect mayor in May

By Sam Clayden | 23 November 2016

Residents in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will elect a mayor in May after all seven authoritie...

Strike action over kids' services trust

By Sam Clayden | 23 November 2016

Sandwell MBC workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike against the decision to form a trust to ...

'Outsource to avoid intervention'

By Sam Clayden | 23 November 2016

A member of Norfolk CC’s children’s services committee has urged the council’s leader to consider...