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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: Axe fears over top-slice
By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014
The future of sector-led improvement hangs in the balance with fears that Whitehall’s grant to th...
FINANCE
A job half done and a truth half told
By Rob Whiteman | 08 December 2014
Chief executive officer of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, Rob Whitema...
FINANCE
A small victory
By Cllr David Sparks | 08 December 2014
The Autumn Statement spared local government from worse cuts and the sector won three lobbying vi...
FINANCE
Ministers signpost fifth year of council tax freeze
By Jonathan Werran | 08 December 2014
Communities secretary Eric Pickles is set to offer local authorities cash to freeze council tax l...
BUSINESS
We are in a financial straitjacket and it will only get tighter
By Graeme McDonald | 05 December 2014
Director of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, Graeme McDonald, on the realities of...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A worrying trend towards self-sufficiency
By Frances Foster | 05 December 2014
Treasurer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Frances Foster, on the unfairne...
FINANCE
'Colossal' local government spending cuts to come
By Jonathan Werran | 04 December 2014
Unprotected areas of public spending – including local government budgets - face ‘cuts on a colo...
FINANCE
Risks of retrenchment
By Andrew Jepp | 04 December 2014
The big risk to local government is that as cutbacks reduce services further, they expose themsel...
FINANCE
A glance at the small print
By Michael Burton | 04 December 2014
Michael Burton scrutinises the Treasury documents accompanying yesterday's Autumn Statement to se...
WHITEHALL
Divided devolution
By Sir Merrick Cockell | 04 December 2014
Sir Merrick Cockell says the chancellor's warm words for local government in the Autumn Statement...
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- Impact of ICB cuts leads councils to moot legal challenge
- EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Basildon pauses chief executive search
- EXCLUSIVE: Councils told to 'avoid publicity' over business rates refunds
- Rewiring the state: The case for a 50 to state pension age labour market measure
- Scottish councils reject reorganisation
Associate Director – Acquisitions, Compliance & Maintenance
£111,579 - £122,596
Shape Dudley’s future through bold investment, safe homes and transformational estate leadership. Apply for this job
Associate Director – Streetscene
£96,064 - £107,932
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking an exceptional leader to join our senior leadership team as Associate Director – Streetscene Apply for this job
- Impact of ICB cuts leads councils to moot legal challenge
- EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Basildon pauses chief executive search
- EXCLUSIVE: Councils told to 'avoid publicity' over business rates refunds
- Rewiring the state: The case for a 50 to state pension age labour market measure
- Scottish councils reject reorganisation
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