WHITEHALL

Westminster considers mansion tax

By Laura Sharman | 02 October 2017

A voluntary ‘mansion tax’ on properties worth more than £10m is being considered by Westminster C...

FINANCE

Scots set for new care abuse claims

By Mark Conrad | 27 September 2017

Scotland’s councils have been warned to brace themselves for a wave of compensation claims from p...

WHITEHALL

Lambeth concern at public inspection of finances

By Hiba Mahamadi | 27 September 2017

Lambeth LBC has raised objections with legislation passed in 2014 that allows the public to inspe...

PLANNING

Javid's top-to-bottom social housing review

By Heather Jameson and Dan Peters | 19 September 2017

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has launched a green paper on social housing in the aftermath o...

WHITEHALL

Name and shame threat hangs over councils

By Dan Peters | 15 September 2017

Councils that fail to get business rates relief schemes in place by the beginning of next month c...

WHITEHALL

Jones: Government fully committed to rates retention

By Dan Peters | 14 September 2017

Local government minister Marcus Jones has insisted the Government is ‘still fully committed to p...

DCLG

DCLG 'light-touch' fuels homeless rise

By Sam Clayden | 13 September 2017

Soaring homelessness levels have been described as a ‘national scandal’ after auditors warned min...

FINANCE

New care legislation blamed for overspend

By Dan Peters | 06 September 2017

Dundee City Council is predicting a £4.2m overspend against its adjusted 2017/18 revenue budget, ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Councils call for modernisation of taxi laws

By Sam Clayden | 25 August 2017

Council leaders have demanded a rethink of ‘outdated’ taxi laws to reflect new technology, reduce...

WHITEHALL

Ombudsman report prompts fresh DoLS reform calls

By Dan Peters | 19 July 2017

Fresh calls have been made for urgent reforms to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) sys...

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Principal Lawyer (Adult Social Care)

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