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COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

£1.14bn East Midlands devo deal agreed

By Ann McGauran | 30 August 2022

A landmark £1.14bn devolution deal for a new combined county authority (CCA) is on offer for the ...

FINANCE

Government not even close to 'rescuing' social care

By Martin Ford | 03 August 2022

The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee said billions of pounds ‘urgently’ needed to ...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Waiting for council issues to get an airing

By By Simon Edwards | 03 August 2022

Local government has hardly featured in the initial debates of the Conservative leadership contes...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Councils face record £2.4bn deficits in SEN this year

By Laura Sharman | 29 July 2022

Local authority deficits in special educational needs (SEN) have reached an ‘unmanageable’ £2.4bn...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Care warning after elderly 'population boom'

By Martin Ford | 15 July 2022

A ‘population boom’ of over-65s is piling pressure on adult care services, county councils have w...

WHITEHALL

Minister delays self-funding care reforms

By Dan Peters | 07 July 2022

Residential care self-funders will not be able to ask their council to arrange care for them at t...

WHITEHALL

A year of progress on county devolution

By James Maker | 28 June 2022

James Maker says that rather than stripping powers from any tier of local government, Clause 16  ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Council chiefs argue for accountability

By Martin Ford | 28 June 2022

Senior officers have asked for greater accountability for the local government sector as part of ...

FINANCE

LGA finance warning kicks off conference

By Chris Mahony | 27 June 2022

More councils could be tipped into financial crisis while others face emergency in-year cuts due ...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall needs to up its game

By Chris Tambini | 14 June 2022

Adult social care and special education reforms are examples of Whitehall departments' poor polic...

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