The MJ
In the current issue
Councils are finding out just what the public thinks for their performance through the Place Survey - but the LGA aren't happy.
Council leaders claimed the Government has taken so long to release the information that it is too out of date to be useful.
Elsewhere, the Audit Commission has returned to the row over its criticism of seven councils over their handling of investments in Icelandic banks. The commission has backed down from claims they had been negligent but the seven maintain they did nothing wrong.
The chief executive of a Scottish council has claimed he is being hounded out and another, Irene Lucas of South Tyneside MBC, has been poached by the CLG to oversee regeneration.
Plus, the Audit Commission finds a friend in The Sun and we reveal a key conversation between a 'civil servant' and a top 'spin doctor' in The Corridor
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