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Survey reveals interest in PSAA scheme

By MJ reporter | 27 August 2021

Public Sector Audit Appointments has a battle on to maintain the number of organisations signed u...

Winning on social housing in Hull

By MJ reporter | 20 January 2021

The combination of austerity and welfare reform led Hull City Council to rethink its support for ...

Cut for IDeA's sector-led improvement grant

By MJ reporter | 08 July 2019

The Government has again chipped away at the grant for sector-led improvement and moved to expand...

Researchers to look at '200-mile long Whitehall screwdriver'

By MJ reporter | 25 October 2018

Experts have laid out their plans to examine whether the Government’s 20-year-old intervention re...

Qualified opinion for Lancashire accounts

By MJ reporter | 09 August 2018

Lancashire CC’s auditors have issued a qualified opinion on the county’s value for money work ami...

Nottinghamshire leader steps up unitary push

By MJ reporter | 11 July 2018

Nottinghamshire CC’s leader has stepped up her push for a unitary council to cover the county.

LGA group elects new deputy leader

By MJ reporter | 12 July 2017

Gedling BC's Michael Payne was the Labour group's vice chair from 2015-2016

Standards committee investigation after High Court ruling

By MJ reporter | 29 June 2017

A former deputy leader of Sandwell MBC who denies claims of serious misconduct in office will fac...

North Ayrshire Council chief executive appointed to Scottish youth charity

By MJ reporter | 28 June 2017

North Ayrshire Council’s chief executive, Elma Murray, has been appointed as the chair of Scotlan...

Miller attacks Whitehall's welfare reform policies

By MJ reporter | 21 June 2017

The president of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives has launched a scathing attack o...