LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Service provision variations still exist

By Jamie Hailstone | 17 February 2015

Care bosses have warned against complacency as the latest figures reveal regional variations in s...

FINANCE

Council bosses call for social care protection

By Jamie Hailstone | 16 February 2015

Town hall chiefs have called for social care to be protected in the next Budget, as councils come...

WHITEHALL

Merge pensions and adult care into single Whitehall department, minister urges

By Michael Burton | 11 February 2015

The next government should merge pensions and adult care into a single new Whitehall department, ...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Think-tank laments 'distracting' health reforms

By Jonathan Werran | 06 February 2015

Reforms set in train by the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act have proved ‘damagin...

WHITEHALL

Care cap not a 'cure all' warns charity

By Jonathan Werran | 05 February 2015

Department of Health (DH) proposals to place a cap on care for people aged over 65 would benefit ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Disability funding under scrutiny

By Mark Whitehead | 03 February 2015

Local government leaders have called for a major change in the funding formula for people with le...

HEALTH

Smith new boss of Burnley

03 February 2015

Pam Smith has been appointed chief executive of Burnley BC.

FINANCE

Time to find some model citizens

By Ewan King | 03 February 2015

To face up to the social care ‘graph of doom’ we need to encourage community led social care. Ewa...

HEALTH

Report slams lack of care progress

By Jamie Hailstone | 30 January 2015

A major report into standards of care for disabled people has called for ‘much faster and sustain...

WHITEHALL

Council services to take £1.1bn hit for adult social care

By Dan Peters | 28 January 2015

The escalating cost of caring for the elderly means councils will have to divert £1.1bn from othe...

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Head of Service Social Work & Specialist Support

Grade M scp 60 £72,118 - scp 64 £77,293

There couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us. Apply for this job

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

Chief Executive Officer - Housing Delivery Shared Service

£123,983 - £138,786 per annum (37 hours per week)

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