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By Cllr Phil Jones. September 2, 2016. Hit with a funding gap caused by the cancellation of a range of government capital programmes, Cllr Phil Jones explains how Camden is fighting back with regeneration projects funded through a 15-year Community Investment Programme. By Sean Ruth, Louise Goldsmith and Penelope Schofield. August 31, 2016. August 31, 2016. Heather Jameson speaks to Claire Kober, new chair of London Councils, about devolution post-Brexit and how this will impact Londoners. August 17, 2016.
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Think tank calls for flat rate council tax
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Think tank calls for flat rate council tax. The Government could kill off the idea of a mansion tax by scrapping the council tax band system and replacing it with a flat rate, a think tank has said. In a report published today. CentreForum said a flat rate for properties would help end the regressiveness of the current system. Want full article access? Receive The MJ magazine each week and gain access to all the content on this website with a subscription. I've forgotten my password. Keeping you up to da...
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Councils predict 2015 will be a year of transformation - LocalGov
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Visit: jobs.LocalGov.co.uk. Click here for menu. Health and Social Care. Councils predict 2015 will be a year of transformation. Council bosses believe that while 2015 will be a year of deeper cuts, it will also mark the start of a step-change in the way they deliver services, according to new research. A third of those surveyed also thought road repairs and building maintenance will deteriorate in 2015, with 28% saying adult social care will be compromised. Kim Ryley, chair at SOLACE in Business, said: ...
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Stop inventing council spending stats Government told - LocalGov
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Visit: jobs.LocalGov.co.uk. Click here for menu. Health and Social Care. Stop inventing council spending stats, Government told. The Government has been accused of inventing new measures for council spending to back up ministers’ arguments and gloss over cutbacks. Clive Betts, chair of the CLG select committee, said ministers had failed to clarify calculations in the Spending Round that showed a 2.3% real terms fall in local government expenditure over the next two years. He said the Government had used ...
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City given green light for road racing first - LocalGov
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Visit: jobs.LocalGov.co.uk. Click here for menu. Health and Social Care. City given green light for road racing first. Coventry is set to become the first city in the UK to stage competitive motorsport on its public roads. The city council has given the green light to racing under new legislation allowing cities to host motor sports events. Now the event's organisers plan to stage competitive time trails next year on the city's ring road which will be turned into a temporary racetrack. This was a big par...
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Deals behind closed doors
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Deals behind closed doors. Oscar Wilde said that consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative, and governments often rely upon this aphorism to justify the contradictions that siloed Whitehall policy formulation inevitably creates. In May, Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner triggered a council tax referendum, which was defeated. How to square this with elected mayors for combined authorities? In May 2012 11 English cities held referenda on elected mayors. But it is naive not to recognise...
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High time for the sector to start paying the price
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High time for the sector to start paying the price. News that the Local Government Association (LGA) has awarded pay rises – albeit relatively small sums – to its senior staff while the rest of local government faces a freeze has been greeted with a bit of ire within the senior officer ranks. No one would argue that the LGA staff rises were not deserved – it is just they would be equally well-deserved across local government but the association is caught between a rock and a hard place. Keeping you up to...
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Local government on the brink. By Steve Leach and Dennis Reed. February 12, 2016. The combined authorities initiative, hailed as ‘English devolution’ to empower local government, is not what it seems, warn professor Steve Leach and former LGiU chief Dennis Reed. Theres digital gold in those hills. February 10, 2016. Andrew Burns considers how analysis of digital data represents a goldmine for local government as the finance settlement fundamentally shifts the agenda. By James Hawkins and Helen Randall.