FINANCE

Service provision is healthy but not sustainable, warns report

By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 February 2018

Scottish councils will find it difficult to provide services at their current level, new data pub...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Councils 'close to collapse' despite extra cash offer

By Mark Conrad | 08 February 2018

Councils remain ‘perilously close’ to financial collapse despite an additional £166m to support s...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Children's services to be slashed over coming year, new research reveals

By Hiba Mahamadi | 08 February 2018

More than 50% of councils analysed in new research plan to cut spending on children’s services ov...

SOCIAL CARE

Crisis in social care workforce, report warns

By Mark Conrad | 08 February 2018

The care workforce crisis has been laid bare by a report that warned ministers were not tackling ...

SOCIAL CARE

Scottish homecare services under threat

By Hiba Mahamadi | 11 January 2018

Almost 40% of care at home services in Scotland handed back their contracts to local authorities ...

WHITEHALL

Pressure growing on DCLG as Fair Funding wait goes on

By Mark Conrad | 14 December 2017

Ahead of next week’s finance settlement, local government has been warned it faces a longer-than-...

BUSINESS

South Somerset and Civica extend contract

By Hiba Mahamadi | 13 December 2017

South Somerset DC has awarded an £800,000, five-year contract to outsourcing service Civica to ex...

FINANCE

Frugal authorities may be left exposed to more cuts

By Heather Jameson and Jamie Hailstone | 15 November 2017

It is a ‘tragic truth’ that local government’s ability to deal with cuts has left it vulnerable t...

CRIME

Mayors call for end to police cuts

By Hiba Mahamadi | 14 November 2017

Mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan have called on chancellor Philip Hammond to end cuts to police...

FINANCE

Austerity 'unlikely to end' despite public's desire for more spending

By Sam Clayden | 03 November 2017

The much-debated ending of austerity is ‘unlikely’, according to the National Audit Office’s (NAO...

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frederica-diamanta

Director - Governance

£76,134 – £88,571 (including car allowance)

As the Monitoring Officer you will work as part of the ‘Golden Triangle’ with the Head of Paid Service and s.151 officer Apply for this job

North Herts Council

Director Highways, Transport & Waste Management

up to £120k

There for Nottinghamshire. There for each other. There for you. Apply for this job

Nottinghamshire County Council

Deputy Director for Education and Inclusion

£110,000 - £120,000 & Benefits

Together, we’re shaping children’s education for the future Apply for this job

Oxfordshire County Council