Finance concerns grow in wake of Grenfell
August 18, 2017
Council finance directors are growing increasingly concerned about the impact of the Grenfell Tower fire on their budgets.
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Equal pay ruling in favour of Glasgow City Council overturned
August 21, 2017
Glasgow City Council will look into making payments to potentially thousands of women workers after a court ruling suggested that the council might have been paying them less than their male colleagues.
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Call for more women in local government
August 21, 2017
Council leaders have admitted that the move towards gender balance in local government should be made at a ‘faster pace’.
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Financial uncertainty forcing councils to award shorter contracts
August 21, 2017
The Government should offer subsidised loans to cash-strapped councils to encourage them to award longer contracts to organisations that support children with mental health difficulties, a think-tank has urged.
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Councils call for post-Brexit procurement reforms
August 17, 2017
Council leaders have called on the Government to ‘simplify’ the current rules on how local authorities buy goods and services once the UK has exited the EU.
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Council wins court battle days after Gove intervention
August 16, 2017
Sheffield City Council has won a court battle against people protesting about its tree-felling programme.
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Councils urged to review homelessness procedures
August 17, 2017
Councils have been urged to ensure their homelessness procedures are ‘fit for purpose’ after faults were found with the treatment of a disabled woman.
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‘Wall of silence’ blocking county devo
August 16, 2017
Councils covering areas outside cities have been left frustrated after being met by a ‘wall of silence’ from the Government on devolution.
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Reading balances books but warns: ‘there’s no room for error’
August 16, 2017
Reading Council’s new boss has said the authority’s books are balanced until 2020 but there is ‘no room for things to go wrong’.
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