Dclg

By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014

A rebel council has refused to submit a Better Care Fund (BCF) plan amid widespread dissatisfacti...

BUSINESS

Squeeze on audit timetable risks strain on councils and auditors

By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014

Concerned councils fear their finance functions will be put under further strain by plans to sque...

FINANCE

Situations vacant

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

With an impeccable sense of timing for the half-term holidays, spending watchdogs the National Au...

BUSINESS

Pickles to block supermarket tax

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 October 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has announced he will not support extra business rates on supe...

Councils failed to detect rise in non-benefit fraud

By MJ reporter | 21 October 2014

Some 39 councils, among them 35 districts, failed to detect a single instance of non-benefit frau...

DCLG

Districts' devolution direction

By Sandra Dinneen | 20 October 2014

Devolution should be about place and make sense for communities and not be a tool to re-ignite a ...

DCLG

Keep the door open on the road to devolution

By Heather Jameson | 15 October 2014

It is less than a month ago that the Scots voted on independence, the poll which kicked off the d...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Boroughs bid for CA status

By Heather Jameson | 15 October 2014

London boroughs should be allowed to create combined authorities as part of the push towards devo...

PLANNING

Pickles blamed for council's decision to scrap wind farms

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 October 2014

Peterborough City Council has blamed communities secretary Eric Pickles’ decision to call in appl...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Overcoming obstacles

By James Hawkins | 13 October 2014

Up to 10,000 local authority self-build schemes are envisaged under the new Right to Build progra...

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