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City council to apologise to courts by end of month over misleading documents
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City council to appoint provider to multi-million pound legal services contract advising on restructuring of major PFI agreement
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City council to bring legal challenge after planning inspector grants permission for 289-dwelling scheme
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City council to change complaints process following Ombudsman report into respite care
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City council to consult for second time on late night levy
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City council to consult for second time on late night levy
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City council to ditch ‘Leader and Cabinet’ model for committee system
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City council to explore all available avenues including legal amid concern that Home Office asylum claims plan will lead to rise in rough sleeping
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City council to hold soft market testing exercise for potential new case management system
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City council to move to committee system in 2022 after governance referendum
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City council to pay £8,550, amend its Direct Payments Policy after Ombudsman finds it failed disabled teenage siblings
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City council to procure £450k barristers services framework
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City council to procure £600k childcare advocacy barrister services
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City council to procure case management system in £240k, five to ten-year deal
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City council to procurement child advocacy barrister services worth £1.5m
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City council to recruit eight trainee solicitors in one go as part of “grow our own” initiative
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City council to refund 11 years of care home top-up fees to family following Ombudsman investigation
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