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WHITEHALL
Rising housing benefit bill undermines welfare cutbacks
By Jonathan Werran | 18 November 2014
Coalition welfare reforms have delivered only £2.5bn real terms savings out of planned £20bn cuts...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A work in progress
By Tom Stannard | 11 November 2014
With investment in skills being primarily targeted at those under 24, and a rapidly changing econ...
WHITEHALL
MSPs call on ministers to arrange food bank meeting
By Jamie Hailstone | 10 November 2014
A committee of MSPs have called on the Scotland Office minister to keep his promise and meet food...
FINANCE
A glimmer of hope: councils standing up for refugees
By Estelle Worthington | 06 November 2014
Amid the media clamour over immigration, local government has had to pick up the pieces of poor W...
HEALTH
How to prepare for Care Act duties
By Simon Galczynski | 30 October 2014
Simon Galczynski urges social care managers to understand new legal duties under the Care Act and...
FINANCE
NALC 'gob smacked' by £9m council tax support cash grab
By Jonathan Werran | 27 October 2014
The representative body for parish and town councils will this week use its annual general meetin...
BUSINESS
LDL moves back to local authority ownership
By Jamie Hailstone | 21 October 2014
Liverpool City Council’s controversial partnership with BT – Liverpool Direct (LDL) – looks set t...
FINANCE
Fraud and errors cost housing benefit £1.4bn
By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014
The viability of the housing system is being put into question through increasing reliance by eve...
WHITEHALL
If the welfare cap fits, wear it
By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2014
Features editor Jonathan Werran on the countdown to chancellor George Osborne's quite wintry Autu...
BEDROOM TAX
Bedroom tax hits the North most, ALMOs' research indicates
By Jonathan Werran | 20 October 2014
Residents in the North of England continue to face the greatest impact of the so-called bedroom t...
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