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22 Nov 01
English councils are set to receive an increase of around 7% in grant when ministers unveil the provisional 2002/03 finance settlement next week, Public Finance can reveal.
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22 Nov 01
The Employers Organisation is to set up a graduate training programme to try to attract some of the brightest and best university students into a career in local government.
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15 Nov 01
There are no plans to introduce 'franchise' managers into Dartford and Gravesham Trust despite the sudden departure of its chief executive this week.
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15 Nov 01
The European Court of Auditors has praised significant improvements in the way the European Union runs its financial affairs in its report on the year 2000, published this week.
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15 Nov 01
The Treasury had a leading role to play in the demise of Railtrack, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers admitted to MPs this week.
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15 Nov 01
Opposition parties have condemned the one-horse race to decide the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party and with it the role of first minister as 'pathetic'.
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15 Nov 01
Education Secretary Estelle Morris has pledged to free teachers from their administrative burden so they can concentrate on teaching, after consultants recommended reducing their workload.
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15 Nov 01
The future of the Public Private Partnership Programme looks increasingly uncertain after it was confirmed that there are currently no plans to replace outgoing chief executive Peter Fanning.
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15 Nov 01
Two housing associations are proposing to swap a total of 1,800 homes in an attempt to reduce their management costs.
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15 Nov 01
Customs officials in Northern Ireland last week seized the UK's largest ever consignment of smuggled cigarettes, valued at £8m.
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15 Nov 01
Unison members at Westminster City Council have threatened to walk out over plans for a £1bn outsourcing contract intended to improve customer services.
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15 Nov 01
UK local authorities are edging ahead of their US counterparts in offering public services on-line, according to research published by an e-government business group.
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15 Nov 01
The government's drive to increase diversity across Whitehall's white, male-dominated workforce is in danger of stagnating, the First Division Association warned this week.
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8 Nov 01
Voter apathy has reached crisis point and the government must take urgent action to resuscitate democracy in Britain, senior backbench MPs urged this week.
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8 Nov 01
A decision to give free nursing care to all nursing home residents in Wales will put pressure on the government to simplify care funding in England, Help the Aged said this week.
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8 Nov 01
Audit Commission controller Sir Andrew Foster has revealed plans to work with a Welsh local authority to develop its much-vaunted new model for Best Value inspections.
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8 Nov 01
GPs have welcomed the double boost to primary care in the poorest areas of England that was launched by health ministers this week.
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8 Nov 01
Strike action by the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) is set to escalate after staff at a key benefit office voted to join a walkout over security issues.
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8 Nov 01
Enlargement of the European Union is now vital to the security of member states following the events of September 11, members of the Committee of the Regions were told this week.
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8 Nov 01
The Local Government Association has declared its 'emphatic' opposition to any attempt by the government to ring-fence local authorities' education budgets.
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8 Nov 01
One of the charity sector's most influential figures has called for the creation of a new 'public benefit sector' capable of delivering and raising investment for major public services.
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8 Nov 01
Local councils could be forced to delve deep into their reserves to shore up their employees' pension funds despite the government's insistence that an actuarial review of the market will uncover few...
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8 Nov 01
Albert Bore, one of local government's few campaigners for directly elected mayors, has narrowly survived a challenge to his leadership of Birmingham City Council.
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8 Nov 01
The government's micro-management of the NHS is frustrating innovation and preventing managers improving the service to patients, the NHS Confederation claimed this week.
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8 Nov 01
Whitehall is out of step with public opinion over care for the elderly, according to a new survey.
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