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22 March 2017

Durham Council has made two new appointments to its senior management team.

FINANCE

Adult social care market 'broken'

By Mark Conrad | 20 March 2017

The adult social care market is ‘broken’ with services now bought at prices that are unsustainabl...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Peer report calls on councils to stop 'cherry-picking' leads

By Mark Conrad | 14 March 2017

Sector-led improvement review teams need to be better prepared and more consistent, an independen...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Pathways to employment

By James Alexandre | 14 March 2017

Ten contestants descended onto a corner of the north Kent coast at the end of January to kick off...

WHITEHALL

Councils prepared to lose cash after Brexit

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2017

Council negotiators have resigned themselves to taking a financial hit from Brexit as they contin...

FINANCE

Mayor keen to identify officers responsible for cash failures

By Dan Peters | 08 March 2017

Bristol mayor Marvin Rees is keen to identify the individuals to blame for the state of the counc...

FINANCE

Temporary accommodation bill revealed

By William Eichler | 06 March 2017

A ‘chronic shortage’ of affordable housing is forcing local authorities to spend £2m a day on tem...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

MPs call for government to publish fresh asylum data

By Mark Conrad | 06 March 2017

Ministers should publish fresh data on councils’ ability to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking chi...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Ofsted inspection regime raises concerns

By James Evison | 28 February 2017

Concerns have been raised over Ofsted’s plans for a new inspection regime to focus on failing chi...

FINANCE

DCN to lobby Whitehall on future of baseline rate

By Dan Peters | 28 February 2017

The District Councils’ Network (DCN) will lobby the Government for certainty on the future baseli...

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