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Jamie Hailstone

Articles by Jamie Hailstone

Legal challenge to halt social care cap fails

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 August 2013

Worcestershire and North Yorkshire CCs have won High Court battles over social care costs and ene...

Conservatives favour unitary authority

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 August 2013

The Conservative group on Stroud DC has called for a working group to be set up to look at creati...

LGA issues welfare reform warning

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 August 2013

The Local Government Association has called for the Government to relax the rules around borrowin...

Government fund has helped community groups forge links with public sector

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 August 2013

A £30m fund for third sector groups has helped ‘cement’ links between community groups and the pu...

More people using personal budgets, say care bosses

By Jamie Hailstone | 08 August 2013

The number of people using direct payments to fund care programmes has also increased - from 13.7...

Campaign launched to keep more services in public hands

By Jamie Hailstone | 08 August 2013

A new campaign has been launched to ensure more services are kept in public hands, as Buckinghams...

Campaign for unitary councils launched

By Jamie Hailstone | 08 August 2013

A UKIP district councillor has launched a nationwide campaign to abolish second tier authorities,...

Waste contract decision defended

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 August 2013

The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) has defended its decision not to award a £1bn ener...

Merseyside plans won't create a 'super council'

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 August 2013

Local authorities in Merseyside have denied plans to create a combined authority will lead to the...

Joint study demanding unity over SME planing

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 August 2013

Local and central government must to do more to ‘align’ policies closer to the needs of local bus...