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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Demand to halt payments for school conversions
By Mark Whitehead | 19 January 2016
Councils should no longer be forced to pay for the cost of schools converting into academies, loc...
HUMAN RESOURCES
When it pays to know your rights
By Owen Willcox | 19 January 2016
Owen Willcox provides a guide for councillors to enable them to maintain proper conduct whether t...
FINANCE
IoW to challenge finance settlement
By Tom Bridge | 19 January 2016
A legal challenge could be launched by Isle of Wight Council over government funding cutbacks fol...
BUSINESS
Councils bid for school powers return
By Dan Peters | 15 January 2016
Councils must remain at the heart of school place planning, the Local Government Association (LGA...
BUSINESS
Ex-finance director loses employment tribunal
By Jamie Hailstone | 15 January 2016
Bournemouth BC’s former finance director has lost a tribunal claim against her former employer.
FINANCE
Need to know on pensions
By Katharine Swire | 15 January 2016
Following changes to rights for LGPS members, Michaela Berry and Katharine Swire explain crucial ...
LEGAL
Lawyers a 'barrier to change,' says survey
By Dan Peters | 13 January 2016
One in five local authority lawyers admit they are thought of as a ‘roadblock to change and innov...
BUSINESS
High Court says council can end £160m contract
By Dan Peters | 13 January 2016
A High Court judge has urged other local authorities to learn lessons after throwing out a bid to...
FINANCE
Excess spending safeguards rejected by finance chief
By Heather Jameson | 13 January 2016
Government hints that financial rules to stop councils over-spending could be changed have been d...
WHITEHALL
Call for more oversight over local government finance
By Dan Peters | 12 January 2016
Concerns have been raised with a group of MPs about the lack of ‘independent comprehensive oversi...
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