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WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Councils call for streamlined new burdens for Brexit
By Dan Peters | 26 February 2019
Councils have urged the Government to introduce a more streamlined approach to providing new burd...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Sector fumes over lack of pre-Brexit briefing
By Dan Peters | 21 February 2019
Councils have threatened to walk away from Government attempts to engage with them on Brexit amid...
WHITEHALL
NAO to probe council commercialisation
By Dan Peters | 20 February 2019
Local authority commercialisation will further come under the spotlight, with the National Audit ...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Public audit will soon need a spring clean
By David Walker | 19 February 2019
John Tizard and David Walker make the case for a new way of auditing how public money is spent th...
FINANCE
NAO should oversee council spending - report
By Martin Ford | 12 February 2019
The remit of the National Audit Office (NAO) should be extended to cover local government, a new ...
FINANCE
NHS sustainability 'very difficult' without a long-term social care settlement
By Abdool Kara | 06 February 2019
A series of significant National Audit Office reports on local services have emerged so far this ...
FINANCE
Labour calls for NAO to intervene in fair funding review
By Dan Peters | 04 February 2019
Labour has called for the National Audit Office (NAO) to vet the outcome of the local government ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Keeping up standards
By Michael Burton | 30 January 2019
As councils become increasingly commercial, auditors are asking how high standards of governance ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Auditors bid to explain real cause of difference in councils' spend on kids
By Chris Mahony | 23 January 2019
A nine-fold variation in spending on children’s social care could largely be down to ‘differences...
FINANCE
Are reports of the death of PFI an exaggeration?
By Hiba Mahamadi | 23 January 2019
Critics initially welcomed the announcement of the end of controversial PFI schemes. But central ...
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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
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
Our promise to Sheffield’s children and young people is that Sheffield will be a place where they belong, Apply for this job
Assistant Director of City Transport
£ to match our ambition
You’ll keep abreast of emerging approaches and best practice Apply for this job
- 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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