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Hiba Mahamadi

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Children's services to be slashed over coming year, new research reveals

By Hiba Mahamadi | 08 February 2018

More than 50% of councils analysed in new research plan to cut spending on children’s services ov...

Tower Hamlets: We're ready for elections

By Hiba Mahamadi | 07 February 2018

Tower Hamlets LBC is ready for the upcoming mayoral and local elections but chief executive Will ...

Government fostering report calls for councils to work with agencies

By Hiba Mahamadi | 07 February 2018

Collaboration between local authorities and the private sector would improve foster care for chil...

Willmott Dixon awarded Rochdale's £80m regen contract

By Hiba Mahamadi | 06 February 2018

Construction company Willmott Dixon has been awarded an £80m contract to deliver the final part o...

Bill to extend FOI to councils' private partners presented

By Hiba Mahamadi | 06 February 2018

A bill that would subject private companies that have contracts with public authorities to the Fr...

Business rates cannot fund public health, committee told

By Hiba Mahamadi | 06 February 2018

It doesn’t make sense to ease councils’ funding pressures using business rates alone because the ...

South Essex councils form 'association'

By Hiba Mahamadi | 05 February 2018

Seven councils in south Essex have taken the ‘momentous’ decision to form an association to give ...

Councils should form joint ventures with housing associations - think-tank

By Hiba Mahamadi | 02 February 2018

Local authorities should ‘seriously consider’ entering into joint venture partnerships with housi...

Government migration funding formula 'unfair'

By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 February 2018

The council accommodating the second-highest number of asylum-seeking children in the UK has crit...

Glasgow denies £500m government loan reports

By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 February 2018

The leader of Glasgow City Council has blasted claims it plans to ask the Government for a £500m ...