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Steven Parker is a lecturer in management at the Open University,Joyce Liddle is a research professor at Durham University ...

Norse Group is the UK’s leading local authority trading company, delivering a wide range of services to the public sector ...

Judging Spending Reviews on the day is like judging new-ish England manager Thomas Tuchel on the basis of his early games in ...

Local authority trading companies can deliver huge benefits to cash-strapped councils, while promoting public service values, writes Norse chief executive Justin Galliford.

Audit should play an important part in boosting confidence, and not many aspects of modern Britain are as desperate for a confidence boost as local government. England’s local audit system, however, ...

Councils have warned that they will remain under “severe financial pressure” despite a more generous than expected settlement that will see core spending power rise by 2.6% from next year.

Anita Charlesworth is director of research and the REAL Centre (Research and Economic Analysis for the Long term) at the Health Foundation ...

Analysis by the Local Government Information Unit, based on an anonymous survey of councils carried out earlier this year, revealed that almost one in ten respondents – 14 local authorities – expected ...