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WHITEHALL
Right to Buy reform calls grow
By Dan Peters | 03 March 2020
Calls intensified this week for the Government to reform its ‘outdated’ Right to Buy (RtB) policy...
BUSINESS
Calls for local audit to be decoupled from system governing companies
By Dan Peters | 02 March 2020
Calls are mounting for the regulatory framework for local audit to be decoupled from the system g...
FINANCE
Finance settlement pulled for new terror law
By Dan Peters | 11 February 2020
Tomorrow’s local government finance settlement has been pulled to make way for emergency legislat...
BUSINESS RATES
Rates repatriation revolt collapses
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2020
An attempt to repatriate the setting of business rates to Scottish councils has collapsed.
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Rate relief delay expected
By Dan Peters | 31 January 2020
Changes to business rates reliefs that the Government wants to make from April will not be introd...
FINANCE
Davey: SEND crisis could blow up in councils
By Dan Peters | 30 January 2020
The acting Lib Dem leader has warned that the crisis in special educational needs and disability ...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Councils sent back to drawing board on SEND
By Dan Peters | 28 January 2020
Councils have been sent back to the drawing board after a quango ripped apart their plans to reco...
FINANCE
Scottish Government resists business rates devolution plan
By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020
Public finance minister Kate Forbes has hit out at opposition proposals to devolve control of bus...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Clash over timing of May election counts
By Dan Peters | 14 January 2020
Returning officers are on a collision course with police and crime commissioners (PCC) over the t...
FINANCE
March 11 Budget creates 'deep risk' for councils
By Paul Marinko | 07 January 2020
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) has written to the Chancellor warning of the...
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Director of Education and Inclusion
£120,901
Premium jobAs we move into a new era built on the strengths and ambition of our borough, we are seeking an outstanding Director of Education... Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Network Co-ordination)
£53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobWe are looking for an enthusiastic and highly driven candidate to join our Highways Asset Management team at Calderdale Council. Apply for this job
Joint Chief Planning Officer
£85,456 - £92,027
Across Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales, our councils are doing something genuinely different. Apply for this job
- Whitehall looking to collaborate with councils on cohesion
- From market town to modern destination: Barnsley's bold rebirth
- Conservatives pledge ban on council four-day work weeks
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Labour Together says 'big bang' package repairs the contract between councils and residents
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