Councils withholding or heavily redacting information requested under Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014: report

  Local authorities are refusing to let the public access key information on how their money is being spent, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has claimed.     The Bureau said its investigation had found that authorities were: redacting documents to “protect commercial interests”; setting up council-owned companies that are removed from scrutiny; failing to respond…

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New CIL rules come into force communities will be able to see what developer contributions are spent on

Updated Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) rules, which mean that communities will be able to see what developer contributions are spent on, have come into force. The cash is for establishing community infrastructure to support new homes, including roads, schools, GP surgeries and parkland. Previous rules meant that councils did not have to report on the…

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Care Inspectorate Wales annual report 2018-19 published

Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) has published its 2018-19 annual report, outlining its work throughout the previous year. The 2018-19 annual report shows CIW regulated 5,946 services providing 112,075 places, and carried out 2,499 inspections across adult and children’s services, and childcare and play. The inspectorate dealt with 2,898 changes to services’ registrations and ways of working…

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