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FINANCE
Fears raised as uncertainty clouds funding settlement
By Dan Peters | 19 January 2016
Government plans to create financial certainty through a four-year funding settlement have been u...
HEALTH
Health/social care integration top of council bosses' agenda
By Jamie Hailstone | 19 January 2016
The integration of health and social care is at the top of the agenda for almost all council boss...
FINANCE
What happens when business rates run low?
By Heather Jameson | 13 January 2016
Reflecting on the finance settlement, Heather Jameson urges finance directors to get tough on usi...
WHITEHALL
Expansion strategy for troubled families programme
By Tom Bridge | 13 January 2016
A wide-reaching government strategy to expand the Troubled Families programme and tackle ‘sink es...
WHITEHALL
Councils resisting call to use reserves
By Sam Clayden | 13 January 2016
A leading finance expert has attacked government suggestions that the four-year settlement means ...
FINANCE
Excess spending safeguards rejected by finance chief
By Heather Jameson | 13 January 2016
Government hints that financial rules to stop councils over-spending could be changed have been d...
WHITEHALL
Council spending freezes 'prove system works'
By Heather Jameson | 11 January 2016
Issuing a freeze on council spending should not be a sign of failure for a local authority, accor...
FINANCE
Authorities 'must make accounts more accessible'
08 December 2015
Councils should produce summary versions of their accounts to increase engagement with the public...
HEALTH
Care bosses call for Osborne talks
By Jamie Hailstone | 08 December 2015
Care industry chiefs have called for a crisis meeting with George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt amid fe...
FINANCE
CFO confidence plummets on finance outlook
By Thomas Bridge | 23 November 2015
Confidence in councils’ abilities to deliver services in the next financial year is rapidly falli...
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LGR Programme Director
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