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WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog to probe final funding deal
By Dan Peters | 25 May 2016
Auditors are poised to probe a last-minute government decision to gift some councils £300m transi...
FINANCE
Council leader calls for law change
By Laura Sharman | 25 May 2016
The law should be changed to restrict councils from re-housing large numbers of people outside th...
WHITEHALL
Collaboration on digital transformation
By Jamie Hailstone | 24 May 2016
Four leading local government groups have joined forces to call on council leaders to use digital...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Political deal ends LGA stalemate
By Heather Jameson | 20 May 2016
The Conservatives will maintain the chairmanship of the Local Government Association, despite no ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA in limbo over next chairman
By Heather Jameson | 17 May 2016
A question mark hangs over who will lead the Local Government Association (LGA) after a legal opi...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Let's stop this back door manoeuvre towards academisation
By Heather Jameson | 17 May 2016
After local government's lobbying success on academies, Heather Jameson explains why councils and...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
'Don't punish the devo undecided'
By Sam Clayden | 17 May 2016
Regions that have yet to fully embrace devolution should not be ‘penalised’ when Whitehall doles ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Back to school
By Claire Fox | 17 May 2016
After the High Court’s ruling on unauthorised school abscences, Claire Fox warns against the risi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
A whisker of power
17 May 2016
Sheffield City Council’s membership of the Local Government Association was doing three choruses ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Let councils decide where to invest
17 May 2016
Calls are growing for the law to change so it stresses councils have the power to decide where th...
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