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By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

Birmingham City Council’s chief executive has urged other councils to check their whistleblowing ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall to increase use of 'external experts' to aid failing children's services

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

External experts will be increasingly called in to support weak or failing children’s social care...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Camden urges London councils to lobby for tourism tax

By Dan Peters | 08 January 2015

The idea of councils being allowed to impose a tourist levy to help plug funding gaps has been re...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Plans to create pool of external experts

By Dan Peters | 06 January 2015

Government moves away from sector-led improvement in children’s services have been criticised day...

TROUBLED FAMILIES

Councils praised after latest Troubled Families announcement

By Dan Peters | 22 December 2014

Councils have had payments-by-results made for over two-thirds of their troubled families, the Go...

FINANCE

2% referendum threshold but welfare fund axed

By Dan Peters | 18 December 2014

Local authorities will be allowed to raise council tax by up to 2% in 2015/16, local government m...

BUSINESS

Improvement cash could be up for grabs

By Dan Peters | 17 December 2014

The budget for improvement services could be opened up to the private sector, as exclusively reve...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Pickles announces ex-council chief Caller as Tower Hamlets commissioner

By Dan Peters | 17 December 2014

Former council chief executive Max Caller has been announced as one of the commissioners who will...

FINANCE

Spending settlement red alert

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

CLG chair issues sharp warning to ministers over perceived complacency amid an uncertain future f...

PAY

How much should chief officers be paid?

By Michael Burton | 16 December 2014

To the question ‘how much should chief officers be paid’ the response is another question, namely...

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