Legal

By Dan Peters | 25 July 2016

A council has insisted it was left with ‘no choice’ but to reduce short breaks funding for disabl...

Relinquish your power

By Claire Fox | 20 July 2016

Claire Fox says the time is right for local government to lead the charge against its own Public ...

BUSINESS

Councils launch legal challenge

By Dan Peters | 15 July 2016

Two councils have launched an appeal to the highest court in the land to prevent developers ‘ridi...

LEGAL

Handover is 'danger to county'

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

Proposals to hand over some council services in Chesterfield to a Sheffield city region mayor cou...

LEGAL

Court throws out boycotts complaint

By Jamie Hailstone | 29 June 2016

The High Court has dismissed claims of antisemitism against three local authorities following the...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Legal firm boycott after gloating tweets

By Laura Sharman | 15 June 2016

Cambridgeshire CC has said it will no longer use the services of legal firm Baker Small following...

WHITEHALL

Hunt in court fight over DoLS

By Dan Peters | 15 June 2016

A cross-party coalition of councils is taking health secretary Jeremy Hunt to court over his gove...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Proposed law 'could strip councils of children's social care'

By William Eichler | 14 June 2016

Hundreds of local authority duties to young people could be removed as the Government seeks to ‘r...

WHITEHALL

Rowland gets Falkland job

07 June 2016

Former Northumberland Council boss Barry Rowland has been named the new chief executive of the Fa...

PLANNING

Lay of the land?

By Cllr Simon Cook | 02 June 2016

Cllr Simon Cook says laws must be changed to stop councils ‘pinching’ homes from each other and l...

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