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BEST VALUE
Best Value Notices lifted for three authorities
By Martin Ford | 09 September 2024
Three authorities are no longer operating under Best Value Notices, the Government has confirmed.
DIGITAL
Audit warning over councils' digital ambitions
By Martin Ford | 15 August 2024
Councils are taking risks as they turn to technology to ease financial pressures, Audit Wales has...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Tower Hamlets Best Value Inspection extended
By Mark Conrad | 28 May 2024
The Best Value Inspection (BVI) team at Tower Hamlets LBC has extended its work to include the co...
IMPROVEMENT
Suite support from the LGA
By Cllr Abi Brown | 21 May 2024
Cllr Abi Brown highlights the range of support services offered by the Local Government Associati...
FINANCE
Could the beating stick be used to point out councils' efficiencies?
By Heather Jameson | 15 May 2024
While local government focuses on the stick used to beat it, where is the carrot?, asks Heather J...
FINANCE
Best Value inspections to examine debt concerns
By Martin Ford | 08 May 2024
Spelthorne and Warrington BCs are facing Best Value inspections amid concerns over debt levels at...
IMPROVEMENT
Commissioners to depart Liverpool
By Martin Ford | 08 May 2024
Commissioners at Liverpool City Council are to hand all remaining powers back to the authority an...
FINANCE
Auditors concerned by slow transformation
By Mark Conrad | 27 March 2024
Scotland’s Accounts Commission is ‘extremely concerned’ by slow transformation at Moray Council, ...
WHITEHALL
Two-year Sandwell intervention to end
By Dan Peters | 07 March 2024
Local government minister Simon Hoare has today confirmed that Whitehall’s two-year intervention ...
WHITEHALL
Slough intervention could continue after November - Government
By Dan Peters | 22 February 2024
Whitehall intervention in Conservative-led Slough BC could continue beyond November, the Governme...
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Head of IT
£76,999 plus £3,000 car allowance and generous benefits package
As our new Head of IT, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology across the organisation. Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Law, Governance and HR (Monitoring Officer)
Up to £78,510 p.a. (pay award pending)
Lead governance, integrity and legal excellence in Rushcliffe. Apply for this job
Service Director – Adult Social Care
£106,769 to £114,229
We’re seeking an inspiring, strategic leader... Apply for this job
- LGA's first chair Lord Beecham dies
- LGR creates major challenges for the corporate services that many have reduced and pared back for years
- Council threatens legal action over £20m roads funding row
- Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent
- When councils get desperate, they start being cultural liquidators
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