WHITEHALL

CIPFA calls for strengthening of council borrowing rules

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020

Legislation governing the rules on council borrowing should be strengthened, the Chartered Instit...

WHITEHALL

Plan to hand social care to NHS is for 'wrong reasons'

By Heather Jameson | 29 July 2020

Plans to hand social care to the NHS are being mooted for ‘all the wrong reasons,’ local governme...

WHITEHALL

MPs slate ministers over sector funding

By Michael Burton | 23 July 2020

MPs have slated ministers for failing to give local government sufficient funding and urged them ...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Deficit puts councils on cliff edge

By Dan Peters | 23 July 2020

Many councils could be pushed over the ‘financial cliff edge’ if the £500m of high-needs deficit ...

HEALTH

It takes two

By Ann McGauran | 20 July 2020

A £3bn winter funding boost for the NHS has highlighted a lack of focus on an adult social care s...

FINANCE

CIPFA mulls legal action against council

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2020

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has put aside £500,000 to fund ...

FINANCE

Council may have to issue s114, warns CIPFA

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2020

Windsor & Maidenhead RBC may not be able to set a legal budget in future years and may have to is...

PLANNING

Don't seek to override local choice on development

By Rob Whiteman | 25 June 2020

Rob Whiteman hopes the ‘sorry episode’ of the Westferry Printworks application ‘once and for all ...

FINANCE

The care home sector 'entered the pandemic on the back foot'

By Rob Whiteman | 24 June 2020

The suggestion that a 'protective ring' was cast around care homes is difficult to swallow, write...

FINANCE

IFS urges government to relax the rules on finance amid crisis

By Heather Jameson | 22 June 2020

Finance experts have called on the Government to temporarily relax rules that prevent councils bo...

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Service Director of Transformation and ICT

£95,000 - £110,000

Sandwell’s story is one of potential and striving to realise the ambitions of our borough, our residents and communities. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Chief People Officer

£95,000 - £110,000

Sandwell’s story is one of potential and striving to realise the ambitions of our borough, our residents and communities. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Service Director – Communications and Strategy

£95,000 - £110,000

Sandwell’s story is one of potential and striving to realise the ambitions of our borough, our residents and communities. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

frederica-diamanta

Service Director of Transformation and ICT

£95,000 - £110,000

Sandwell’s story is one of potential and striving to realise the ambitions of our borough, our residents and communities. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Chief People Officer

£95,000 - £110,000

Sandwell’s story is one of potential and striving to realise the ambitions of our borough, our residents and communities. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Service Director – Communications and Strategy

£95,000 - £110,000

Sandwell’s story is one of potential and striving to realise the ambitions of our borough, our residents and communities. Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council