Articles by Jamie Hailstone
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...
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...
£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...
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...
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...
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