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FINANCE

Cash-strapped council dumps LOBO loan

By Paul Marinko | 09 August 2021

Cash-strapped Liverpool City Council is to swap £65m of loans for £107m of debt in order to cut i...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Council exit payments halved

By Paul Marinko | 04 August 2021

The Government has revealed exit payments by English councils have more than halved in the last s...

WASTE

Council drive to tackle staff shortages

By Paul Marinko | 03 August 2021

Dacorum BC has started retraining workers to drive waste lorry in a bid to tackle a national shor...

UNIONS

Unions urge pinged staff to isolate

By Paul Marinko | 02 August 2021

Unions have urged waste and recycling staff to stay at home if ‘pinged’ by the COVID-19 app despi...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Shropshire chief exit payment revealed

By Paul Marinko | 02 August 2021

Shropshire Council has revealed its former chief executive received a severance payment of more t...

FINANCE

Environmental health risks being 'hollowed out'

By Paul Marinko | 15 June 2021

More than half of English councils are not taking on environmental health trainees and apprentice...

BUSINESS

EXCLUSIVE: Councils urged to 'sharpen commercial edge'

By Paul Marinko | 15 June 2021

A new report has argued that allowing councils to sharpen their commercial edge will ‘unlock imme...

WHITEHALL

Redcar & Cleveland reduces cyber-attack cost estimate

By Paul Marinko | 15 June 2021

Redcar & Cleveland BC has recalculated the cost of the cyber-attack it suffered down by £1.7m.

FINANCE

Cardiff boosts reserves in pandemic

By Paul Marinko | 15 June 2021

Cardiff City Council’s reserves increased by £48m despite the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

BUSINESS

Business leaders make planning plea

By Paul Marinko | 14 June 2021

Business leaders have demanded ‘properly resourced and upskilled local planning departments’ so c...

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