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SOCIAL CARE

Councils pessimistic over their future sustainability

By Martin Ford | 05 June 2018

Three-quarters of senior officers expect austerity to claim more victims in the coming year, whil...

EDUCATION

Burnham in plea for further education devolution

By Martin Ford | 05 June 2018

The mayor of Greater Manchester has made a plea for skills training to be devolved after giving a...

FINANCE

Call for more councils to become social investors

By Martin Ford | 04 June 2018

Councils are being urged to ensure investments yield community benefits, in addition to generatin...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Torbay improvement of poor children's services 'too slow'

By Martin Ford | 04 June 2018

A council’s ‘entrenched culture’ has been blamed for a failure to improve its inadequate-rated ch...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Council relocating to 'rundown' town centre

By Martin Ford | 01 June 2018

Slough BC is moving its headquarters into the heart of the town centre in a bid to regenerate the...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Chief executive to retire after 40 years

By Martin Ford | 01 June 2018

Four decades of public service are to come to an end with the retirement of Wealden DC chief exec...

HUMOUR

The end of a beautiful relationship

By Martin Ford | 01 June 2018

It’s always sad, not to mention slightly awkward, when a couple finds themselves going their sepa...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

System has 'given up' on children in care, commissioner claims

By Martin Ford | 01 June 2018

The children’s commissioner for England has said the system has 'given up’ on children in care an...

BUSINESS

Manufacturing park to create 7k jobs and draw £400m investment

By Martin Ford | 31 May 2018

An ambitious project to create thousands of jobs and generate hundreds of millions of pounds of i...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Regeneration scheme aims to create hundreds of jobs

By Martin Ford | 31 May 2018

A developer has been appointed to carry out a multi-million pound regeneration project in Lincoln...

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