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Care funding gap to reach £3bn

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 October 2015

Town hall chiefs have warned the social care funding gap is to rise to £2.9bn by the end of the d...

MPs criticise education funding

By Jamie Hailstone | 09 October 2015

The Pupil Premium is failing students from poorer backgrounds, according to the House of Commons’...

Plaid Cymru to scrap social care charges

By Jamie Hailstone | 09 October 2015

Plaid Cymru has pledged to abolish social care charges for the elderly and those with dementia if...

Worcester rejects workers' bid to run in-house services

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 October 2015

Members of Worcester City Council have rejected calls to let its workers bid to run their own ser...

One-party councils wasting billions, claims think tank

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 October 2015

Councils dominated by a single political party are wasting £2.6bn a year through procurement, acc...

Councils to get more cash to help refugees

By Jamie Hailstone | 02 October 2015

The Government has confirmed additional funding is on the way to help local authorities house and...

Commission for finance launched

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 September 2015

The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) has urged its members to ‘engage positively’ with a...

£120m development for Peterborough's South Bank

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 September 2015

A joint venture between Peterborough City Council and Lucent Strategic Land Fund has unveiled pla...

Bosses pledge to improve education levels

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 September 2015

Bosses at Poole BC have pledged to work with schools to improve standards following the publicati...

CQC raps quality of adult care services

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 September 2015

More than a third of adult social care services have been rated as requiring improvement or inade...