PREVENTION

Public services must welcome partnership and prevention

By Emmet Regan | 06 November 2024

Social care is pointing the way towards the use of working in partnership to deliver public servi...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Unprecedented interest in council's fostering offer

By Julie Kelly | 28 October 2024

Hillingdon LBC’s new payment and benefits package for foster carers, the most competitive of its ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

NAO: Councils face bankruptcy due to SEND deficits

By William Eichler | 24 October 2024

Two-fifths of local authorities will face the threat of bankruptcy if more is not done to tackle ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Sure Start Centres reduced criminal offending, says IFS

By Emily Twinch | 23 October 2024

Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% ...

POLITICS

Labour intervenes at Tameside

By Martin Ford | 11 October 2024

The leader of Tameside MBC has resigned after Labour took steps to directly intervene over ‘unacc...

WALES

Welsh councils facing £559m budget pressure

By Paul Marinko | 11 October 2024

Welsh councils face budget pressures of around £559m next year, the sector’s umbrella organisatio...

PEOPLE

Chief executive's resignation 'welcomed' by MPs

By Martin Ford | 10 October 2024

Chief executive of Tameside MBC, Sandra Stewart, has announced she is to stand down following a w...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Children's services need cash injection amid rising cases, says LGA

By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024

Children’s services in England need an ‘emergency cash injection’ in the Budget to deal with ‘rec...

SOCIAL CARE

Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits

By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024

English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...

BUSINESS

Contract agreed for Lincolnshire children's home build

By Dan Peters | 02 October 2024

Willmott Dixon has signed a multi-million-pound contract to build a 28-bed secure children’s home...

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Director of Family Help and Safeguarding

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Reading Borough Council

Head of Highways Operations

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frederica-diamanta

Director of Family Help and Safeguarding

£105,836 - £121,235

Brighter Futures for Children is looking for a visionary leader to drive transformation and improvement in children's services at a pivotal time. Apply for this job

Reading Borough Council

Head of Highways Operations

Salary: £78,168 per annum

Premium jobSomerset offers a unique blend of natural beauty, rich history and vibrant community life. Apply for this job

Somerset Council

Head of Operational Services

£73,051 to £75,342

Are you ready to shape the future of a thriving district? Apply for this job

South Derbyshire District Council