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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Calls for a new Audit Commission are an affront to localism
By Ian Miller | 25 April 2018
Ian Miller rejects recent calls for the reinvention of the Audit Commission.
WHITEHALL
Chief sought answers from building society over fraud
By Mark Conrad | 18 April 2018
Dundee City Council’s chief executive sought assurances over anti-money laundering practices from...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Cheshire East: Investigation committee chair steps down
By Hiba Mahamadi | 13 April 2018
The chair of the committee that suspended three top officers at Cheshire East Council last year h...
WHITEHALL
Government crackdown amid confusion
10 April 2018
Councils fear they could fall victim to a Government crackdown amid continuing confusion a year o...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
New guide to improve member-officer relations
By Mark Conrad | 05 April 2018
Cheshire East Council has responded to concerns about member-officer relations by producing a new...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Our peer challenge experience
By Mike Harden | 03 April 2018
Mike Harden breaks down the key learning from Knowsley MBC's recent peer challenge.
SCRUTINY
Donna Hall: Let's bring back the Audit Commission
By Donna Hall | 28 March 2018
Donna Hall believes Northamptonshire CC’s situation and the changing nature of chief executives’ ...
AUDIT
The Audit Commission needed its wings clipped but abolition was not the answer
By Andy Sawford | 28 March 2018
Northamptonshire CC’s woes have been fuelled by a real-time experiment that failed, writes Andy S...
BUSINESS
Government oversight of LEPs not good enough, MPs say
By Hiba Mahamadi | 16 March 2018
The Public Accounts Committee has stressed its lack of faith in the Government’s oversight of loc...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Mayor defends close relationship between LEP and combined authority
By Hiba Mahamadi | 08 March 2018
The mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) has defended the autho...
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