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SOCIAL CARE
£12m cash boost for council care workers
By Ann McGauran | 10 January 2020
A council plans to put an extra £12m in the hands of its 30,000 care workers by adding two per ce...
FINANCE
Councils are faring well on finance
By Heather Jameson | 09 January 2020
Last month, CIPFA published its resilience index tool – and the picture for local government is b...
FINANCE
Stoke-on-Trent warns of job cuts
By Martin Ford | 06 January 2020
The council is aiming to make £9.2m of savings next year.
WHITEHALL
LGA care talks offer rejected
By Martin Ford | 02 January 2020
The Government has declined an offer by the Local Government Association (LGA) to host talks on h...
SOCIAL CARE
'Ambitious programme of domestic reform' promised in Queen's Speech
By Dan Peters | 19 December 2019
The second Queen’s Speech in almost as many months has promised an ‘ambitious programme of domest...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Local government are the systems thinkers and the time to act is now
18 December 2019
Systems thinking - considering the whole, not just the parts, and how those parts interact - bri...
SOCIAL CARE
Counties are key to unleashing the entire country's potential
By David Williams | 18 December 2019
David Williams says Boris Johnson’s Government has been elected on a domestic pledge to ‘level-up...
SOCIAL CARE
First and foremost we need clarity on finance
By Paul O'Brien | 18 December 2019
Getting ‘Brexit Done’ should open up an oven-ready settlement for local government to implement r...
FINANCE
'Unaffordable and unsustainable' care demand creates £14m funding gap
By Martin Ford | 16 December 2019
Shropshire Council officers have warned that all services are facing costs next year to cover inc...
WHITEHALL
This will be a different Conservative Government
By Paul Dossett | 13 December 2019
Head of local government at Grant Thornton UK, Paul Dossett, says the fact that the Conservative ...
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