Articles by Jamie Hailstone
£3m shortfall forces councils to consider merging
By Jamie Hailstone | 13 July 2016
Two district councils in Somerset are facing a combined budget shortfall of more than £3m by 2020...
Councils warn of extra transparency burdens
By Jamie Hailstone | 12 July 2016
Government plans to make councils publish more data should be applied across other parts of the p...
Care programmes will not deliver savings - think-tank
By Jamie Hailstone | 11 July 2016
Integrated care and health programmes are unlikely to deliver any savings in this parliament as t...
Hill: Councils best placed to run schools
By Jamie Hailstone | 08 July 2016
Children’s services chiefs have called for a ‘meaningful relationship’ between Whitehall and loca...
Council's energy firm aims to be 'greenest in London'
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016
Barking & Dagenham LBC is to create an energy services company which could make the borough one o...
Collaboration to make £2bn City Deal a success
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016
Business leaders have called on ministers to work together to help make the £2bn Edinburgh and S...
New care firm pledges to be 'socially responsible'
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016
The boss of Bolton MBC’s new adult social care company has pledged it will be a ‘socially respons...
Wage bill soars despite reduction in authorities
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016
The total wage bill for local government in Northern Ireland has soared by £11m despite the numbe...
Welsh warned of post-Brexit cash cuts
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016
The Brexit vote could result in further cuts in government grants and a loss of economic opportun...
'Remember us up North,' says leader'
By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016
The leader of Rochdale BC has called on the Government to remember the Northern Powerhouse post-B...
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