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Council boss pay-offs face review
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Large pay-offs to departing council chiefs who start work soon afterwards at a new local authority are to be reviewed by the spending watchdog. The Audit Commission is to look into pay-offs to council chiefs, some of whom are reported to have left after...
Tags: Audit Commission, council chiefs, town hall, local authorities
Recession starts to threaten home life
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility Britain faces a surge in drug addiction, alcoholism and domestic violence as the second wave of the recession and rising unemployment take a grip, the leading public sector watchdog warns today. Councils are not doing enough to prepare their communities...
Tags: Audit Commission, social problems
Freeze public-sector pay, says spending watchdog
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility The head of Britain's spending watchdog lays bare the damage the recession has done to state finances with a bleak warning that a pay freeze should be imposed on Britain's six million public-sector workers. In the face of the bitter political row over...
Tags: public sectors, pay freeze, sectors workers, sectors pay, Alistair Darling, spend watchdog, Audit Commission, public spend, public finances, pay squeeze
Councils deemed negligent over Iceland banks
Reykjavík :: Iceland | 8 months ago
Credibility Local authorities "negligently" deposited almost £33 million in Icelandic banks in the final days before their collapse, the local government spending watchdog warned today. The Audit Commission found that seven English authorities breached official...
Tags: Icelandic, iceland banks, local authorities, Audit Commission, treasury managers, midlands council
Childcare failures put thousands more at risk, Audit Commission reveals
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Forty of the 149 councils assessed by the children’s watchdog Ofsted provided either inadequate or the bare minimum of children’s services, which covers education, social care and child protection. The number achieving the full four stars fell from twelve...
Downturn raises state school demand
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility The Audit Commission's report into the effect of the credit crunch on councils showed an increasing demand for their services as well as a drop in income. But the report says most councils are well placed to weather the downturn. The Commission questioned...
Tags: Audit Commission
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