Articles by MJ Correspondent
Councils have 'real opportunity' to redesign children's services
By MJ Correspondent | 24 April 2014
Councils have a ‘real opportunity’ to redesign children’s services as they face a fourth consecut...
Public backs plans to devolve fiscal powers
By MJ Correspondent | 24 April 2014
The MJ’s campaign for the Government to give councils more financial freedoms has been boosted by...
The sector-led challenge
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
Rogue councils could be a challenge to sector-led improvement, one of the LGA’s deputy chairmen h...
Wigan to step up information protection
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
A Merseyside council has agreed to improve its practices after breaching the Data Protection Act.
Clause 82 puts council control of children's care under threat
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
The latest threat to council control of children’s social care has been met with disappointment f...
Shared services integration 'inevitable' for large councils
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
Large councils will find it is ‘inevitable’ they will fully integrate back office systems with ot...
LPFA boss urges Whitehall to 'speed up pension reforms'
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
The chief executive of the £4.8bn LPFA has urged the Government to accelerate its plans for struc...
Too many back office cuts harm frontline services
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
Finance officers have broken cover to stress the importance of their work amid a climate of back ...
Authorities' demand for rival to PWLB queried
By MJ Correspondent | 17 April 2014
Independent treasury adviser Arlingclose has questioned the demand from councils for a fresh riva...
Tories deny NHS social care plans
By MJ Correspondent | 11 April 2014
Conservative ministers have strongly rejected suggestions that they are thinking about moving soc...
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