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WHITEHALL

LGA strikes £20m improvement deal

By Dan Peters | 10 April 2018

Whitehall is looking to strengthen the sector-led improvement regime in its latest £20m deal with...

WHITEHALL

Chancellor misses yet another opportunity

By Stephen Houghton | 13 March 2018

Steve Houghton says time is fast running out for local government finance.

FINANCE

Council finances are becoming truly unsustainable

By Mark Conrad | 12 March 2018

Mark Conrad digs into the underlying data behind the NAO's latest report on council finances and ...

WHITEHALL

'Big variances' in financial sustainability

By Dan Peters | 08 March 2018

There are ‘big variances’ in how equipped councils are to respond to the financial challenges the...

WHITEHALL

Reserves red alert

By Mark Conrad | 07 March 2018

NAO study on financial sustainability warns of fresh cash crisis for local authorities

HEALTH

What next for health and care?

By Michael Burton | 20 February 2018

In the second round table discussion hosted by The MJ and the National Audit Office, participants...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Recruitment and retention: Who will be left to care in the future?

By Mark Conrad | 13 February 2018

Auditors, academics, practitioners and unions are pointing to the recruitment and retention issue...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The words 'light touch' should never refer to public expenditure

By Abdool Kara | 06 February 2018

Abdool Kara on local enterprise partnership accountability and transparency.

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Government knew provisional settlement was wrong

By Dan Peters | 23 January 2018

Whitehall officials rushed out the provisional local government finance settlement days before Ch...

BUSINESS

Former LEP chair accused of cover-up over deal

By Mark Conrad | 23 January 2018

MPs have accused an ex-local enterprise partnership (LEP) chairman of a ‘cover up’ after he refus...

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