HEALTH

EXCLUSIVE: Adult social care biggest cost pressure

By Jamie Hailstone | 23 February 2016

Adult social care is the biggest short and long-term pressure for council chiefs, an exclusive su...

FINANCE

Let's raise the roof

By John Sparkes | 16 February 2016

John Sparkes says housing and welfare policy must be reformed if councils are to effectively tack...

FINANCE

Four Wheel Drive Woman on . . . homelessness

22 July 2015

Tarquin, stop throwing sweets out the window, poppet. I don’t care if you think the tramps would ...

HUMOUR

Ellie's feeling rough

09 June 2015

This week’s fusion of celebrity and local government comes courtesy of pop starlet Ellie Goulding...

LEGAL

Supreme Court gives councils further pause for thought on homelessness test

By Laura Tweedy | 29 May 2015

Laura Tweedy runs through the legal implications for local authorities of a landmark legal ruling...

FINANCE

Devo to aid spend for working-age people

By MJ reporter | 20 May 2015

Further devolution of welfare budgets from Whitehall to local level is necessary if reduced benef...

BUSINESS

Chief defends action on 'persistent' homeless

By Dan Peters | 10 April 2015

Oxford City Council’s chief executive Peter Sloman has denied that a proposed order that could le...

FINANCE

LGA: welfare fund axe 'expensive mistake'

29 January 2015

Knock-on effects from the scrapping of local welfare schemes in April could cost the public purse...

FINANCE

Councils forced to consider self-funding

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

Councils are being forced to think seriously about becoming self-funding as they plan their finan...

FINANCE

Give authorities powers to increase tax on long-term empty homes

By Dan Peters | 06 January 2015

Giving local authorities the power to increase tax on empty homes could raise as much as £215m a ...

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Director of Economy

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York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

Head of Legal (Monitoring Officer)

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York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

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