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EDUCATION
PM announces policies to support levelling up agenda
By Laura Sharman | 19 May 2021
The Prime Minister has announced 57 local areas will share £830m to transform high streets as par...
HEALTH
Javid: Devolution crucial in levelling up
By Dan Peters | 13 May 2021
Former local government secretary Sajid Javid has stressed the importance of devolution in the dr...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: High needs spending could 'bankrupt councils'
By Dan Peters | 11 May 2021
A senior finance director has warned that spending on high needs threatens to ‘bankrupt councils’...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Powell becomes shadow housing secretary in mini-reshuffle
By Michael Burton | 10 May 2021
Labour leader Keir Starmer has replaced his shadow housing secretary and brought in a high-flyer ...
EDUCATION
A sense of hope for the future
20 April 2021
The new president of the ADCS Charlotte Ramsden talks to Ann McGauran about her aim of making thi...
FINANCE
SEND funding boost of £280m announced
By Martin Ford | 09 April 2021
Councils will receive £280m to create new school places for pupils with special educational needs...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Somerset MP urges county to up SEN spend
By Mark Conrad | 08 April 2021
A Somerset MP has urged the county council to find £2.4m from existing coffers to settle a two-ye...
EDUCATION
Councillors call extraordinary meeting over director secondment
By Martin Ford | 23 March 2021
Councillors in Stockport said they had been ‘treated with contempt’ after a joint director with T...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Pressure mounts over SEND grant deficit
By EXCLUSIVE By Dan Peters | 17 February 2021
Councils are facing renewed pressure from the Department for Education (DfE) to make cuts to brin...
EDUCATION
Cheshire leaders put concerns to Government on jabs, lockdown and schools
By Ann McGauran | 13 January 2021
Council leaders in Cheshire and their partners have written to the Government laying out their co...
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