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FINANCE
Surrey CC scraps plans for 15% council tax referendum
By Sam Clayden | 06 February 2017
Surrey CC has scrapped plans to hold a referendum on whether to increase council tax by 15%.
FINANCE
Schemes pressure poorer families
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2017
Each new wave of council tax support schemes (CTS) has put a greater burden on low income familie...
FINANCE
Surrey is an example of why councils need fiscal freedoms
By Dr John Stanton | 30 January 2017
In the wake of Surrey CC's decision to hold a council tax referendum, Dr John Stanton argues givi...
FINANCE
Warning over future for care home providers
By Dan Peters | 25 January 2017
Councils have called for ‘urgent and genuinely new’ funding for social care amid fresh warnings t...
COUNCIL TAX
Ashford exits super district plan
By Mark Conrad | 24 January 2017
Councils in east Kent have published a business case for a super district but Ashford DC has quit...
COUNCIL TAX
Leaders risk referendums to do the right thing
By Heather Jameson | 24 January 2017
With the announcement of two referendums in the past week, this local election day is set to be m...
FINANCE
White Van Man on . . . tourism tax
24 January 2017
Whenever I go abroad to Italy or France or whatever I always discover the hotel has whacked on an...
COUNCIL TAX
Surrey CC needs a masterful campaign
By Ben Page | 24 January 2017
Surrey CC's decision to hold a council tax referendum was a bold move, but will the odds are stac...
HEALTH
EXCLUSIVE: Lack of confidence in adult social care strategy exposed
By Dan Peters | 24 January 2017
The true scale of feeling across local government about the escalating social care crisis is reve...
FINANCE
Behind Surrey CC's 15% council tax rise proposal
By Cllr David Hodge | 23 January 2017
David Hodge explains why Conservative-led Surrey CC has no choice but to hold a referendum on a m...
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- Replumbing Britain's growth model: how to unlock place-based investment
- Government rows back on plans to exclude councils from ICBs
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