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FINANCE
Porter: Rates retention will end in tears
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2017
The move to 100% business rates retention will ‘end in tears,’ the chairman of the Local Governme...
FINANCE
'Long-term national solution' still needed to solve social care crisis
By Dan Peters | 15 December 2016
The sector and experts have argued that the announcement that an extra £900m will be made availab...
FINANCE
A bumpy ride for the sector
By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2016
From Bowie to Brexit and bed-blocking, 2016 has been a rollercoaster year. Heather Jameson skips ...
FINANCE
Goodbye 2016 and hello to another turbulent year
By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2016
Heather Jameson looks back on one difficult year for local government and forward to another.
HEALTH
'Whitehall's failure to end trusts' charity claims wastes cash and harms health'
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016
Ministers’ failure to end a long-running legal dispute between NHS trusts and councils is wasting...
WHITEHALL
Councils upbeat about defeating trusts' demands for rates relief
By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2016
Councils are quietly confident of defeating NHS trusts’ claim for mandatory business rates relief...
FINANCE
100% rates retention branded 'irrelevant'
By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016
Returning business rates to the sector is ‘irrelevant,’ two members of the Layfield Commission on...
WHITEHALL
DCLG rates rethink leaves LEPs in limbo
By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016
The Government could row back from plans to give business members on local enterprise partnership...
FINANCE
Future Forum North: 'Devolution deals may not be for whole country'
By Dan Peters | 03 December 2016
Local Government Association chief executive Mark Lloyd has publicly accepted for the first time ...
WHITEHALL
Future Forum North: Call to 'grab attendance allowance'
02 December 2016
Several chief executives have called on local government to seize powers over attendance allowanc...
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