WHITEHALL

Sector split over finance settlement

By Mark Conrad | 11 October 2022

Financial uncertainty has split opinion over whether local government should push for a multi-yea...

WHITEHALL

More than 100,000 public sector jobs could be lost

By Michael Burton | 10 October 2022

More than 100,000 public sector jobs could be lost over the next year as employers struggle to fi...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Councils urged to improve pay policies

By Mark Conrad | 03 October 2022

High Peak BC and Staffordshire Moorlands DC should jointly improve their pay progression policies...

WHITEHALL

Inflation may drive increased insourcing

By Dan Peters | 03 October 2022

Councils may be propelled to bring services back in-house to escape contracts tied to inflation a...

PAY

Unison members back pay offer

By Dan Peters | 28 September 2022

Members of trade union Unison have voted by 63.5% to 36.5% to accept the national employers’ fina...

BUSINESS

Labour pledges 'biggest wave of insourcing for a generation'

By Dan Peters | 26 September 2022

A Labour Government would oversee the ‘biggest wave of insourcing for a generation,’ deputy leade...

WHITEHALL

Energy support for councils 'too little, too late'

By Dan Peters | 21 September 2022

The Government’s new package of energy bill support for councils is ‘too little, too late,’ trade...

FINANCE

Council offers all staff voluntary redundancy

By Martin Ford | 16 September 2022

Northumberland Council has offered all of its staff the option of voluntary redundancy as it atte...

WHITEHALL

'Fierce resistance' to threatened strike clampdown

By Mark Whitehead | 06 September 2022

Any attempt by new Prime Minister Liz Truss to outlaw strikes will be met with ‘fierce resistance...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Scottish council workers consider 7.5% pay offer

By William Eichler | 05 September 2022

Strikes that have hit schools and waste services across a number of council areas in Scotland hav...