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Government lifts 10-year-old improvement direction on children’s services at city council
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Government lifts best value notices at councils and combined authority after seeing improvement
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Government looking to boost trading standards powers in fight against youth vaping
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Government makes immediate amendments to NPPF to scrap de facto ban on onshore wind
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Government makes pavement licensing regime permanent
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Government minded to send Commissioners into Croydon
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Government minister reiterates need for primary legislation if councils to be allowed to hold meetings remotely on permanent basis
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Government moves to expand intervention at Thurrock after concluding financial position result of “deeper systemic weakness"
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Government mulls making local transport authorities responsible for taxi and PHV licensing
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Government must act now to fix crisis in local audit, say MPs
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Government must adequately resource officers to enforce anti-social behaviour restrictions, say councils
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Government must learn lessons from use of criminal law in pandemic including avoiding blurred line between guidance and the law: Justice Committee
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Government names 11 firms to framework supplying costs lawyer services to public sector
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Government names 12 potential sites for new towns
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Government names McGibbon as Treasury Solicitor, head of Government Legal Department
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Government names preferred candidate for chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission
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Government names preferred candidate for next Local Government Ombudsman
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Government needs to better understand risks carried by arm’s length bodies, says spending watchdog
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Government needs to improve the process by which ministers take legal advice: Institute for Government
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Government Net Zero Strategy in breach of Climate Change Act, High Court finds
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