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FINANCE
100% rates retention Bill revealed
By Dan Peters | 13 January 2017
Much-anticipated framework legislation that will pave the way for local government to retain all ...
FINANCE
Porter: Rates retention will end in tears
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2017
The move to 100% business rates retention will ‘end in tears,’ the chairman of the Local Governme...
HEALTH
Vulnerable 'falling through cracks of fragmented system'
By Dan Peters | 22 December 2016
Vulnerable people are falling through the cracks of a fragmented health and social care system, t...
FINANCE
'Good' finance settlement for Welsh councils
By Dan Peters | 21 December 2016
Welsh councils should use this year’s ‘good settlement’ to ‘plan for the harder choices which wil...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
MPs raise concerns over devolution
By William Eichler | 19 December 2016
The Government has failed to clearly define its objectives for devolution in England and must imp...
DCLG
Rebel councils stand firm in face of DCLG crackdown
By James Evison | 16 December 2016
Three rebel local authorities flouting the Department for Communities and Local Government’s (DCL...
WHITEHALL
Law relaxed to meet need for more secure children's places
By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016
Spiralling demand and dwindling supply has forced the Government to try to relax the law to allow...
WHITEHALL
Ministers to limit council exemptions clause
By Jamie Hailstone | 09 December 2016
The Government is to backtrack on a controversial clause in the Children and Social Work Bill whi...
FINANCE
Call for rethink over 'flawed' investment crackdown
By Dan Peters | 09 December 2016
Disappointed council leaders have called for a rethink of ‘flawed’ proposals that could ‘severely...
WHITEHALL
A different school of thought
By Ben Cahill | 06 December 2016
Compulsory academisation has been dropped – but challenges remain for local authorities and small...
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Executive Director of Transport
£128,216 – £156,241
Getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Moving Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Children and Families
£80,995 - £86,757
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- Council backlash over asylum reforms
- EXCLUSIVE: LGA reduces transparency of key meeting
- Local government leaders must connect the council financial crisis to lived experience
- Exclusive: Councils must be made an equal partner in designing a national care system, says Casey
- Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care
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