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WHITEHALL
IFS implores action over growing social care funding chasm
By Heather Jameson | 20 March 2018
The Government will need to scrap its funding reforms, significantly boost top-ups or centralise ...
HEALTH
Government backs DoLS replacement
By Dan Peters | 14 March 2018
The Government has said it ‘agrees in principle’ that the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguar...
WHITEHALL
Mandatory reporting calls rejected by Government
By Mark Conrad | 05 March 2018
Ministers today rejected calls for the mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse – claiming an...
LEGISLATION
The Drugs Don't Work
05 March 2018
As Diary has mentioned before, the impressively liberal Canadians have decided to legalise cannab...
WHITEHALL
Hotel levy talks over Commonwealth Games
By Dan Peters | 16 February 2018
Talks between Birmingham City Council and the Government over how the Commonwealth Games will be ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Lord Porter gives the gift of time
05 February 2018
Too often we lament our hectic lives – usually while simultaneously getting the kids ready for sc...
SOCIAL CARE
Academics highlight recruitment and retention problems
By Mark Conrad | 05 February 2018
Councils require greater clarity over how their social care market-shaping and commissioning duti...
SOCIAL CARE
Judge's warnings over care proceedings
By Mark Conrad | 22 January 2018
Councils should ‘think long and hard’ before embarking on care proceedings against ‘otherwise uni...
WHITEHALL
Kerslake: Localism Act not backed by resources
By Dan Peters | 22 January 2018
The Localism Act has not been backed up by the resources it needs, according to the civil servant...
WHITEHALL
Inspector arrives amid reorganisation pressure
By Mark Conrad | 16 January 2018
An independent inspector today began investigating Northamptonshire CC’s precarious finances amid...
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