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TRANSFORMATION
A fresh start for the sector?
By Josh Bembridge | 14 April 2021
Josh Bembridge asks if, post-pandemic, the landscape has changed for future delivery of services ...
FINANCE
Building back better and fairer
By Cllr Oliver Ryan | 22 March 2021
Tameside MBC’s Budget and focus on Inclusive Growth offers a platform to work together to seize a...
WHITEHALL
Future Forum North: 'Business rates will be like Tudor beard tax'
By Dan Peters | 17 March 2021
A senior finance director has said ‘anachronistic’ business rates are ‘going in the direction of ...
HOMELESSNESS
Picking up the pieces and rethinking public services
By Heather Jameson | 03 March 2021
As Rishi Sunak braces the UK for tax rises 'it has to be about more than just replenishing the pu...
FINANCE
Index reveals funding woes
By Heather Jameson | 24 February 2021
Most councils allowed to use capital cash to prop up their finances faced problems before the imp...
PAY
The cap didn't fit, and lessons must be learned from it
By Heather Jameson | 17 February 2021
The Government has revoked the £95,000 cap on exit payments rule. Heather Jameson says the plan w...
FINANCE
Shielding from future shocks
By Gary Fielding | 25 January 2021
Amid a global pandemic, councils are dealing with an ‘eye-wateringly high’ list of obstacles to l...
SOCIAL CARE
More cash, but not enough
By Heather Jameson | 01 December 2020
With its £5.5bn extra funding for local government next year the Spending Review may have deliver...
SOCIAL CARE
SPENDING REVIEW: Live to fight another year
By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2020
Local government has probably got just about enough from the chancellor to keep the show on the r...
TRANSFORMATION
Time to stop what isn't working
By Professor Donna Hall | 24 November 2020
Before setting their budgets, councils must rethink themselves and the purpose they serve within ...
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Executive Director of Finance
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Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
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- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- The MJ crowns Local Authority of the Year
Director of Legal and Governance
£109,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Finance
£131,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
£108,015 - £118,000 pa
Operational leadership that turns strategy into reality. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- The MJ crowns Local Authority of the Year
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