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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Solace presidency: The pitches
29 September 2016
How should Solace hold its conferences, how must it collaborate with the LGA and how can members ...
HEALTH
Call to tackle health and care 'structural disconnect'
By Laura Sharman | 28 September 2016
‘Political maladministration’ has led to an unacceptably high level of unsafe discharges from hos...
WHITEHALL
Lack of cash may scupper free childcare programme
By Jamie Hailstone | 27 September 2016
Town hall bosses have warned Whitehall’s plans to increase the amount of free childcare in Englan...
FINANCE
Core Cities urged to put pressure on 'mute' LGA
By Thomas Bridge | 27 September 2016
Core Cities is expected to increase pressure on the Local Government Association (LGA) after a ma...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Riding the metro
By James Evison | 27 September 2016
Local government is about to have the first test cases of metro mayors. But what do local leaders...
WHITEHALL
'Let's reorganise before planned finance system overhaul'
By Dan Peters | 27 September 2016
Local government reorganisation should happen before the planned overhaul of the finance system, ...
WHITEHALL
Calais Jungle is 'moral outrage' - Forbes
By Heather Jameson | 26 September 2016
The Calais Jungle is a ‘moral outrage’ and councils stand ready to take care of the children of a...
WHITEHALL
Forbes: Social housing under threat
By Heather Jameson | 26 September 2016
The future of social housing has ‘never been under so much threat,’ Local Government Association ...
WHITEHALL
Academisation could cost councils £320m
By Dan Peters | 23 September 2016
The cost to council taxpayers of converting all schools to academies could be as high as £320m, n...
BUSINESS
LGA calls for end to rates loophole
By Laura Sharman | 21 September 2016
Councils are being forced to write off millions of pounds in unpaid business rates due to a legal...
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