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£18m for health and care research

By Jamie Hailstone | 15 May 2015

The Welsh Government is to invest £18m in researching public health, emergency care and mental he...

Think tank calls for flat rate council tax

By Jamie Hailstone | 15 May 2015

The Government could kill off the idea of a mansion tax by scrapping the council tax band system ...

Mott McDonald wins contract to regenerate Croydon

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 May 2015

Croydon LBC has appointed Mott McDonald as the lead consultant on its project to regenerate the C...

BT council/NHS deal 'failing to deliver'

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 May 2015

BT’s controversial partnership with Cornwall Council and the NHS is failing to deliver and has be...

3,000 staff move to catering firm

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 May 2015

More than 3,000 staff from a company owned by Staffordshire CC are to be transferred to part of t...

Welsh focus on prevention

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 May 2015

The Welsh Government has unveiled a new set of social care criteria with more emphasis on interve...

Shared services have saved councils almost £500m

By Jamie Hailstone | 11 May 2015

New research by the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed councils have saved almost £5...

Up to 5,000 authority staff could make equal pay claims

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 May 2015

An equal pay lawyer has claimed up to 5,000 current and former staff at Wolverhampton City Counci...

Council clarifies chief executive fraud comments

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 May 2015

Woking BC has clarified comments made by its chief executive after criticism he was linking the t...

'Don't let devo burden taxpayers'

By Jonathan Werran | 28 April 2015

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has reaffirmed Conservative policy that the drive towards dece...