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WHITEHALL
Let councils write their own job specs
By Heather Jameson | 18 November 2014
Central government needs to massively scale back on statutory duties and give councils the chance...
WHITEHALL
Tower Hamlets loses legal battle
By Jamie Hailstone | 17 November 2014
A High Court judge has thrown out a second attempt by Tower Hamlets LBC to fight government moves...
BUSINESS
Opposition defeated over plan to bring legal team back in house
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014
Opposition calls for Barnet LBC’s legal department to be brought back in-house after a report cri...
WHITEHALL
'This is no way to run public finances'
By Heather Jameson | 04 November 2014
National politicians should ‘come clean’ about cuts in the run up to the General Election or they...
WHITEHALL
Fierce reaction to staff salaries plan
By Jonathan Werran | 04 November 2014
Government proposals to claw back the salaries of senior council staff who find work within the s...
PENSIONS
Parry-Jones payout gets final clearance from WAO
By MJ reporter | 04 November 2014
Welsh spending watchdogs have cleared Pembrokeshire CC’s exit payment for former chief executive ...
WHITEHALL
DfE 'failed to establish councils' school spending responsibilities'
By Jonathan Werran | 04 November 2014
The Department for Education (DfE) has failed to clearly set out what roles and responsibilities ...
FINANCE
Pickles proposes Tower Hamlets intervention
By Dan Peters | 04 November 2014
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has insisted his proposed Government intervention package for ...
HEALTH
We should embrace early accounts closure
By Andy Mack | 29 October 2014
Early closure of accounts is the future, writes Andy Mack, a director with Grant Thornton and the...
BUSINESS
Squeeze on audit timetable risks strain on councils and auditors
By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014
Concerned councils fear their finance functions will be put under further strain by plans to sque...
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Executive Director of Transport
£128,216 – £156,241
Getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Moving Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Children and Families
£80,995 - £86,757
Our promise to Sheffield’s children and young people is that Sheffield will be a place where they belong, Apply for this job
Assistant Director of City Transport
£ to match our ambition
You’ll keep abreast of emerging approaches and best practice Apply for this job
- Council backlash over asylum reforms
- EXCLUSIVE: LGA reduces transparency of key meeting
- Local government leaders must connect the council financial crisis to lived experience
- Exclusive: Councils must be made an equal partner in designing a national care system, says Casey
- Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care
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