Council staff earning more than £100,000 hits highest level in a decade
Job adverts at Westminster Council boast of an “unmatchable work-life balance” and it being accredited by Timewise, a flexible working consultancy, while the Essex authority said last…
Kwasi Kwarteng pressures councils to distribute Covid cash
In a letter to councils, Mr Kwarteng said: “My message to you today is simple: businesses need you and your staff to help them through this period….
We copy the French fetish for municipal government at our peril
The advantage of naming a ministry “the Department for Levelling Up” is that no-one quite knows what it means. It sounds so abstract and dull that we’ll…
Cancelled bin collections blamed for surge in fly-tipping during Covid lockdown
Changes to household purchasing during lockdown, as well as changes to travel and leisure, may also have driven the increase in fly-tipping, the Government said. Household waste…