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FINANCE
Councils to receive cyber probe
By Dan Peters | 17 August 2020
One in 10 councils will be offered ‘penetration testing’ of their cyber security arrangements to ...
OFSTED
Ofsted to visit councils and children's social care providers
By Ann McGauran | 17 August 2020
Ofsted will resume its visits to local authorities and children's social care providers from Sept...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Restored visits by Ofsted are 'not about judging'
By Yvette Stanley | 17 August 2020
Rather than creating something new, Ofsted’s visits from September to schools and social care and...
FINANCE
Advisers offer neat solution to the rocky road ahead
By Heather Jameson | 11 August 2020
As a raft of councils could face difficulties from their commercial investment, or just failing f...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Birmingham improvement model could be used elsewhere
By Dan Peters | 11 August 2020
An improvement model that has helped turn around Birmingham City Council could be rolled out to o...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Learning the lessons from interventions
By Paul McDermott | 05 August 2020
Paul McDermott says the MHCLG’s analysis of corporate dysfunction is a must read, as it raises th...
WHITEHALL
CCN steps back from backing 'radical' shake-up
By Dan Peters | 04 August 2020
The County Councils’ Network (CCN) will hold back from calling for historic boundaries to determi...
WHITEHALL
'Small minority' of councils have still not had a corporate peer challenge, report finds
By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020
The Local Government Association (LGA) should consider what further action it could take to encou...
OMBUDSMAN
Ombudsman makes 12% more service improvement recommendations
By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020
Increasing systemic problems identified in residents’ complaints has led to the Local Government ...
WHITEHALL
Williams: I'll accept whatever it takes to get a county unitary
By Dan Peters | 28 July 2020
The leader of Hertfordshire CC has conceded he would accept a directly-elected mayor as the figur...
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