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By Laura Sharman | 24 November 2020

Some councils will face the 'difficult choice' of leaving people to sleep rough or placing them i...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Hackney shifts the dial on contact tracing

By Ann McGauran | 23 November 2020

Cllr Chris Kennedy talks to Ann McGauran about the highlights and challenges of Hackney LBC’s lo...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils are critical to beating this pandemic

By Abi Brown | 23 November 2020

Stoke-on-Trent was the first area to pilot new quick turnaround lateral flow testing. Here, counc...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The value of districts working at the local level

By Neil Shaw | 23 November 2020

Chief executive at Rossendale BC Neil Shaw outlines how the council has addressed the need to sup...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Stretched councils rumbled over identical financial returns

By Dan Peters | 23 November 2020

Councils have been reminded to regularly update their monthly financial returns to Whitehall afte...

FINANCE

Early days for motion

23 November 2020

It was a heartfelt message of thanks to local authorities that went out from Green Party MP Carol...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Surge support required for local test and trace

By Martin Ford | 23 November 2020

Council-run test and trace systems cannot entirely replace the national system, the Local Governm...

HEALTH

NHS lays out plan for working with councils on mass vaccination

By Ann McGauran | 23 November 2020

The NHS has started to detail its mass vaccination strategy, outlining how it expects to work wit...

WHITEHALL

Leisure centre collapse warning

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2020

Under-pressure leisure centres will go under without further rescue funding on top of the £100m a...

PAY

Local government 'must have parity' with NHS on pay

By Ann McGauran | 20 November 2020

The chairman of the LGA’s Community Wellbeing Board says the hard work of the sector during the p...

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