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15 Jun 00
Political leaders could face isolation and have little control over democracy with increasing use of the Internet, Barry Quirk, chief executive of the London Borough of Lewisham, has warned.
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15 Jun 00
The public sector must stop seeing leadership skills as a personality defect, Cabinet secretary Sir Richard Wilson told CIPFA delegates on June 14.
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15 Jun 00
The ratings agency Standard & Poor's has issued its first rating for a local authority in Britain. Huntingdonshire District Council has been awarded a triple-A long-term issuer credit rating.
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15 Jun 00
Knowing they're on the street where you live could save local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales £200m.
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15 Jun 00
The waves of modernisation sweeping through local government are producing far-reaching changes in the way authorities provide services and do business with their partners in the private and...
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15 Jun 00
The Local Government Association has set up its own hit squad to establish how education authorities can intervene effectively to turn around failing schools under their control.
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8 Jun 00
Tony Blair breezed back into Downing Street this week after completing his paternity leave with a vow to sort out the care of the elderly.
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8 Jun 00
Traditional travelling fairs could help trigger an urban renaissance, and local authorities that do not encourage them are 'foolish', according to a new report from MPs.
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8 Jun 00
Tameside local education authority this week received a yellow card from schools' inspectorate Ofsted and was told to put its house in order or face further action.
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8 Jun 00
Local authorities in northern England are counting the cost of massive clean-up operations following serious flooding last weekend. The bill may come to as much as £15m, according to some estimates.
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1 Jun 00
A government advisory body has published new guidance for local councils on Private Finance Initiative contracts.
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1 Jun 00
Labour think-tank the Fabian Society has called for pilot studies of compulsory voting to be carried out in local elections.
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1 Jun 00
Asylum seekers must be offered more than just a roof over their heads in the provinces if the government's new dispersal policy is to prove successful, according to an Audit Commission report,...
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1 Jun 00
The Department of Health is planning to include private health providers in contingency plans to avoid a repeat of last winter's hospital beds crisis.
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1 Jun 00
Local authorities have reacted angrily to yet another attempt to sideline them in favour of more centralised control, this time over care of the elderly and the disabled.
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1 Jun 00
Worcestershire Health Authority has slammed an independent report into its Private Finance Initiative hospital project as 'breathtakingly inaccurate'.
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25 May 00
The Local Government Association commission examining the school year has heard that redistributing holidays more evenly and having an increased number of shorter terms could cut absence levels among...
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25 May 00
Immediate steps must be taken to tackle poor administration of housing benefit, MPs were told this week.
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25 May 00
The quality of Welsh council services varies widely and falls below that of their English counterparts in many areas, the Audit Commission said this week.
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25 May 00
The Department of Health will for the first time draw up statutory guidance for council social services departments on charging for home care services, health minister John Hutton revealed this week.
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18 May 00
The expanded list of companies approved to supply services to failing local education authorities has been criticised by the Local Government Association and the National Union of Teachers.
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18 May 00
Local authorities may be given the chance initially to opt out of a new grant system for people living in sheltered and supported accommodation.
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18 May 00
The government must guarantee the future of rural post offices or face a further decline in countryside communities, a cross-party committee of MPs has warned.
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11 May 00
The Audit Commission this week exposed 'unacceptable variations' in councils' charging policies for home care, and called on the government to produce formal guidance to ensure a more consistent...
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11 May 00
Moves towards regionalisation in England have brought about no significant devolution of power, according to findings published by the Local Government Association on May 8.
15 Jun 00Political leaders could face isolation and have little control over democracy with increasing use of the Internet, Barry Quirk, chief executive of the London Borough of Lewisham, has warned.
