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Bury faces big payout

09 July 2009

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Healey's home lifeline

09 July 2009

Housing minister, John Healey, will be prepared to extend emergency help for families at risk of ...

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Commission mulls over 1.25% audit fee increase

09 July 2009

The Audit Commission has proposed increasing its audit fees by an above-inflation 1.25% this year...

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Chief executives lead calls for pay restraint

09 July 2009

The pay claim, put in last September, was no longer deemed appropriate in the current financial c...

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Questions over cash for housing

01 July 2009

Local government has been put centre-stage in building homes and the economy – but it is as yet u...

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Commission to cut workforce

01 July 2009

The Audit Commission is to slash its workforce as part of the watchdog’s efforts to be ‘exemplary...

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Councils have 'key role' to ease effects of slump

01 July 2009

The Association of Public Sector Excellence (APSE) has written to the Government urging ministers...

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Uncertain future for troubled provider

01 July 2009

Time is running out to refinance the heavily-indebted social care provider, Four Seasons Healthca...

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Slump hits tax revenues

01 July 2009

The level of council tax and business rates collected by England’s local authorities dropped this...

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Housing benefit reward faces axe

01 July 2009

Local authorities will soon be forced to scrap a popular reward system for housing benefit recipi...