Legislation

By Richard Pantlin | 09 April 2015

These days no major change programme can be effectively implemented without supportive informatio...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Getting full value

By Adele Taylor | 08 April 2015

Adele Taylor higlights the important role the Social Value Act has to play in transforming servic...

HEALTH

Councils likely to 'pay lip service' to new obligation

By Dan Peters | 08 April 2015

Councils are unlikely to be able to meet a new obligation to reach out to people experiencing iso...

BUSINESS

Beefing up social value?

By Dan Gregory | 07 April 2015

There’s some muscular localism at the heart of the suggested revisions to Best Value Statutory Gu...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Breaking the strike law?

By Paul McFarlane | 07 April 2015

If the Conservatives gain an overall majority, the stage is set for a battle royal between Unite ...

HEALTH

Care Act warning on implementation day

By Dan Peters | 01 April 2015

Warnings that the Care Act needs more funding for it to be a success have continued to be made as...

DCLG

Pickles' parting DIP shot is a botched job

By Mark Greenburgh | 26 March 2015

New arrangements for chief executive dismissals are full of holes and remove key protections for ...

FINANCE

Councillors to 'raise merry hell with ministers' over delay

By Dan Peters | 25 March 2015

A promise by ministers to exempt councillors’ travel expenses from tax by the beginning of 2015/1...

LEGAL

Plans to simplify senior staff dismissals unveiled

By Jonathan Werran | 24 March 2015

Ministers will this week set out measures which would make it easier to dismiss council chief exe...

Postal vote reminder branded 'needless'

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Returning officers are being forced to write more than 100,000 letters containing postal voting i...

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