Councils save over £1bn by sharing services, council chiefs say

26/06/2019

More than a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money has been saved by councils sharing services, the Local Government Association has calculated.

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PM calls for new housing design laws

Housing association calls for an end to the 5-week wait for UC payments

£146bn building programme needed to end housing crisis, experts say

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Fifth of local government leaders ‘privately educated’

Around 25% of local government jobs ‘slashed’ due to austerity

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Northern Ireland council staff sickness at highest level in nearly 30 years

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Councils save over £1bn by sharing services, council chiefs say

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Post-Brexit free trade zones could ‘rebalance the economy’, think tank claims

Government announces £155m of loans to build housing

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Birmingham to invest £778m to prepare for Commonwealth Games

Liverpool gets green light to build council houses

New toolkit launched to help councils go green

Welsh Government to simplify joint working between councils

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Carers increasingly ‘depressed’, survey reveals

Council-led programmes to fight childhood obesity launched

Thousands of overspill beds being used for routine care, report says

Cuts impacting on oral health in care homes, council chiefs warn

Public Property

Whitehall’s 300,000 house building target ‘way off track’

Councils build ‘highest number’ of houses since 1990

Blackpool museum allocated £4m in lottery funding

The rise of the ‘super’ parish council

With figures showing parish precepts have risen by 4.9% this year, Neil Merrick explores how parish councils are using the extra revenue to deliver increased and better services.

How councils can transform neglected town centres

Karle Burford discusses how local authorities can utilise effective placemaking and masterplanning to succesfully regenerate neglected town centres.

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The March issue of Local Government News explores alternative funding channels that are available to councils beyond the Public Works Loan Board, what hurdles merging councils face in coming together, and how local government is handling GDPR.

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