FINANCE

Risks of retrenchment

By Andrew Jepp | 04 December 2014

The big risk to local government is that as cutbacks reduce services further, they expose themsel...

SOCIAL CARE

Beyond expectations

By Jonathan Werran | 03 December 2014

Greenwich RLBC scooped the award for innovation in social care through a well-planned approach to...

PLANNING

Accessibility for all

By Paul Gamble | 03 December 2014

On the United Nations day for disabled people, Paul Gamble expresses frustration that the Governm...

SOCIAL CARE

Alarm as registered voter numbers plummet

By Jonathan Werran | 03 December 2014

Far fewer eligible residents will be registered to vote at next May’s General Election, a Liverpo...

FINANCE

How do you fill the NHS black hole?

By Heather Jameson | 03 December 2014

If the next Government continues to cut local government funding and protect ring-fenced health b...

HEALTH

Councils 'were close' to dumping the BCF

By Dan Peters | 02 December 2014

The Local Government Association (LGA) considered walking away from the Better Care Fund (BCF) pr...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Burstow: boost care worker pay to end exploitation

By Jonathan Werran | 02 December 2014

Former care minister Paul Burstow has urged councils to give home care workers key worker status ...

HEALTH

Self-funder support: are you meeting Care Act requirements?

By Ray Hart | 28 November 2014

Ray Hart explains the changes that social care departments need to take to ensure their support p...

HEALTH

Extra funding for fraud clampdown

By Dan Peters | 27 November 2014

A range of council-led projects to claw back billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money lost every ye...

SOCIAL CARE

Call for more community provision post-Winterbourne

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2014

A report into the care of people with learning difficulties has called for the ramping up of comm...

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Head of Community Cohesion

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Brighton & Hove City Council

Principal Planning Officer

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