LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA forum 'will help Tower Hamlets to improve'

By Dan Peters | 31 March 2015

Tower Hamlets LBC has called for a Local Government Association-facilitated forum to sort out pro...

FINANCE

Next government 'must tackle the crisis in care'

By Dan Peters | 31 March 2015

Council services face a hammering in next year’s spending review if the soaring costs of health a...

WHITEHALL

Fewer authorities freeze council tax

By Jonathan Werran | 31 March 2015

Ten fewer English councils accepted cash inducements to freeze council tax in 2015/16 than in th...

FINANCE

The sector 'needs its own OBR'

By Michael Burton | 30 March 2015

Local government needs its own Office for Budget Responsibility to fill the gap left by the Audit...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Fear and loathing in St Albans

By Mark Rogers | 30 March 2015

SOLACE president Mark Rogers relates what he heard at this year's Future Forum - and what it poss...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Importance of imparting information

By David Walker | 30 March 2015

‘Town hall Pravdas’? No. Information is the lifeblood of local government and constricting its fl...

WHITEHALL

DCLG sitting idly on housing cash hoard, Betts laments

By Jonathan Werran | 30 March 2015

Chair of the communities and local government select committee Clive Betts has accused ministers ...

FINANCE

MJ Forum 15: Kerslake - We can't repeat cuts that went before

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2015

Implementing the same level of cuts to local government in the next five years as seen in the las...

HUMAN RESOURCES

SOLACE: Government DIP hit 'chaotic and costly'

27 March 2015

Government measures issued this week aimed at making it easier to dismiss council chief executive...

DCLG

Pickles' parting DIP shot is a botched job

By Mark Greenburgh | 26 March 2015

New arrangements for chief executive dismissals are full of holes and remove key protections for ...

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