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LEISURE

Wigan insources leisure services

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2021

The council is to bring its leisure centres in-house in a bid to safeguard jobs following the imp...

PLANNING

Councillors voice intervention fears

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2021

Members of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council have raised concerns the authority could f...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

London chief announces retirement

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2021

Hackney LBC chief executive Tim Shields is to leave the council following four decades of public ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Questions over councils' regeneration role

By Martin Ford | 12 January 2021

A lack of funds and expertise prevents local authorities from reversing the decline of many town ...

FINANCE

Lack of entrants to council audit market

By Martin Ford | 12 January 2021

Councils have been urged to play a role in making the local government audit market a more attrac...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Why Hackney's sharing of Windrush heroes' stories stood out

By Martin Ford | 11 January 2021

Hackney LBC received the ‘delivering best outcomes’ award at The MJ Achievement Awards. Martin Fo...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Starmer demands halt to 'absurd' council tax rises

By Martin Ford | 11 January 2021

Labour leader Keir Starmer has called for central government to increase funding for local author...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Chief executive calls time on 40-year career

By Martin Ford | 08 January 2021

Colin Everett will leave Flintshire CC later this year, having joined the authority in 2007.

PENSIONS

High Court to hear four exit pay cap legal challenges

By Martin Ford | 08 January 2021

Another trade union has been granted permission to challenge the public sector exit pay cap at th...

EDUCATION

Council defies government by closing nurseries

By Martin Ford | 08 January 2021

A council has closed all of its nurseries to prevent the spread of COVID-19 despite the Governmen...

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