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FINANCE

On the road to improvement

22 April 2024

Northumberland Council’s peer review, following a hard-hitting review of governance, shows the lo...

HEALTH

There's real value in our arts

22 April 2024

Council support for arts and culture is at serious risk amid the latest funding crisis. But we mu...

FINANCE

Peers call for action on private ownership of children's homes

By Martin Ford | 22 April 2024

Peers have called for action to tackle private companies’ dominance of the children’s homes market.

WHITEHALL

LGA lobbied over income tax devolution amid White Paper preparations

By Dan Peters | 22 April 2024

The Local Government Association’s (LGA) White Paper should make the case for councils to receive...

FINANCE

Wirral assurance panel 'no longer required'

By Martin Ford | 19 April 2024

Wirral MBC’s Independent Assurance Panel (IAP) has officially stood down after declaring it was ‘...

FINANCE

Watchdog tells Falkirk to confront 'difficult decisions'

By Martin Ford | 17 April 2024

Falkirk Council faces ‘difficult decisions’ to bridge a budget gap of tens of millions, according...

WHITEHALL

Councils hit with new productivity demands

By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024

Ministers have demanded councils improve their productivity in the same week as the Government qu...

FINANCE

We need to measure prevention spend

By Rob Whiteman | 16 April 2024

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy will seek to answer how much are we cur...

FINANCE

Doing things differently

By Paul Marinko | 16 April 2024

In the face of never-ending pressures councils are continuing to seek out ways to do things diffe...

FINANCE

The will to win in Wilts

16 April 2024

Wiltshire Council was the setting for the latest round of the Local Government Challenge, which f...