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10 Oct 11
Unison today launched a strike ballot of its 1.1 million public sector members over pension scheme changes.
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4 Oct 11
Councils will not achieve the substantial savings needed over the next three years through either outsourcing or employee-owned mutuals, a Public Finance round table debate agreed this week.
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4 Oct 11
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced that councils are to be given enhanced powers to evict travellers from unauthorised sites following the long-running legal battle at Dale Farm in...
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27 Sep 11
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called on Prime Minister David Cameron to recognise that the government's economic plan is not working.
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23 Sep 11
Planned increases in council workers' pension contributions could be avoided, the umbrella body of councils in England and Wales has told minsters today.
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20 Sep 11
Health minister Paul Burstow has said that the government might amend its controversial health reforms further in the House of Lords
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19 Sep 11
Councils will be able to borrow up to £13bn at cheaper rates to cover the costs of Housing Revenue Account reforms, the government has announced.
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15 Sep 11
The cost of ambulances responding to emergency calls varies widely between trusts, MPs said today.
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15 Sep 11
Councils are 'gambling' taxpayers' money on risky, expensive and outmoded road schemes, transport campaigners said today.
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13 Sep 11
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has admitted that the government was 'a tad optimistic' to believe the Community Budgets initiative could be co-ordinated across Whitehall without a minister...
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9 Sep 11
Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber has admitted that he cannot predict whether it will be possible for the unions to strike a deal with the government on changes to public sector...
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7 Sep 11
Ofsted will introduce some no-notice inspections of welfare provision at boarding and residential special schools.
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6 Sep 11
Ministers are looking for private or voluntary sector bodies to take over the Fire Service College as public spending cuts have caused a slump in its revenue
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5 Sep 11
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that none of the new free schools being set up across England will be profit-making.
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31 Aug 11
The Private Finance Initiative is ‘a better deal for the private sector than the taxpayer’, an influential committee of MPs has said.
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30 Aug 11
Changes to the planning system could increase congestion on roads across the country, with a cost to the economy of £250m, campaigners have argued.
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26 Aug 11
Giving local authorities control of Council Tax Benefit certainly fits in with ministers’ localism plans. But by combining it with a 10% grant cut, the coalition is also passing the buck for cutting...
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25 Aug 11
Councils are being asked for their views on whether they should have greater freedom to dispose of housing stock.
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23 Aug 11
Councils have called for the government to speed up the introduction of new powers that will allow local authorities to charge fees to utility companies who dig up roads.
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26 Jul 11
UK economic growth slowed to 0.2% in the second quarter of 2011, prompting renewed calls for the government to revise its deficit reduction plan.
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22 Jul 11
A government fund has been launched to give coastal communities a share of the money earned from renewable energy activities in UK seas.
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21 Jul 11
More than 16,000 police officer jobs are being cut by forces across England and Wales to meet reductions in their budgets from government
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15 Jul 11
Upper-tier councils in England will take over responsibility for providing access to sexual health services, the national child measurement programme and the NHS's health check assessments, ministers...
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14 Jul 11
Up to 170,000 new and affordable homes will be built in England by 2015, ministers announced today.
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12 Jul 11
Public service ombudsmen are to be given expanded roles as part of the government's public service reforms for England, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.