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Record-breaking year for Ombudsman

By Martin Ford | 27 July 2022

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has directed more improvements to councils in the ...

Local government stalwart Stephen Baker to retire

By Martin Ford | 27 July 2022

East Suffolk Council chief executive Stephen Baker has announced his retirement after 17 years in...

Ofsted calls for social care workforce strategy

By Martin Ford | 27 July 2022

The watchdog the need is ‘more urgent than ever’ as it published a report looking at the ongoing ...

Care in skills crisis

By Martin Ford | 27 July 2022

Social care directors have said the sector is facing ‘a workforce crisis never seen before’ as th...

Local government accounts for one in 10 data breaches

By Martin Ford | 26 July 2022

The local government sector accounts for one in 10 rule breaches reported to the UK’s data protec...

A tale of two factions

By Martin Ford | 26 July 2022

As the Tory leadership candidates start setting out their campaign policies, how much are they re...

Half of Right to Buy homes replaced

By Martin Ford | 25 July 2022

There were 10,878 homes sold under the Right to Buy scheme in the 2021-22 financial year, while j...

Westmorland and Furness appoints first CEO

By Martin Ford | 25 July 2022

The current chief executive at Barrow BC, Sam Plum, will take on the role at the new unitary coun...

Social care facing 'greatest workforce crisis in history'

By Martin Ford | 25 July 2022

An extra 490,000 social care jobs will be required in the coming years, a new report has found. 

County fends off £500k cyber fraud attempts

By Martin Ford | 22 July 2022

Nottinghamshire CC has thwarted two attempts to defraud the council totalling more than £500,000.