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FINANCE
Balancing the budget
By Tom Foster | 02 June 2016
How high is the risk of financial failure for local authorities? Tom Foster uses exclusive data a...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Supporting staff on the front line
By Harold Bodmer | 02 June 2016
Pressure is mounting on the country’s informal carers as demand rises and funding cuts continue t...
HEALTH
£820m bed blocking cost putting services under strain
By Jamie Hailstone | 26 May 2016
Bed blocking is costing the NHS £820m a year and putting care services under strain, according to...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Queen's Speech 2016: Councils face fresh demands under 'care covenant'
By Thomas Bridge | 18 May 2016
Plans to speed up adoption and raise scrutiny on council support for young people were outlined i...
FINANCE
Cuts hamper health integration
By Jamie Hailstone | 17 May 2016
Cuts to council budgets are making the integration of health and social care more difficult, acco...
HEALTH
Lack of coordination with social care blamed for 'harrowing ordeals'
By William Eichler | 11 May 2016
Vulnerable patients and their families are enduring ‘harrowing ordeals’ due to poor hospital disc...
FINANCE
Who wins from the social care precept?
By Tom Foster | 11 May 2016
Using exclusive data analyis, Tom Foster explains how the adult social care precept will most lik...
FINANCE
Making a case for the precept
By Iain MacBeath | 11 May 2016
Iain MacBeath explains Hertfordshire CC’s decision to deploy a 2% social care precept amid mounti...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Get yourself connected
By Cllr Izzi Seccombe | 11 May 2016
Cllr Izzi Seccombe says technology could have a transformative role to play in local government’s...
SOCIAL CARE
Social services to be assessed for end of life care
By Jamie Hailstone | 09 May 2016
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) watchdog is to start assessing social service departments on th...
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Shape the Future of Essex. Drive climate action. Deliver for our communities. Apply for this job
Director of Social Work and Social Care
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This is a role with real strategic influence. From shaping policy and commissioning service improvements Apply for this job
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