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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Flexing practice in response to COVID in Surrey
By Rachael Wardell | 17 February 2021
Rachael Wardell reveals how promoting flexibility in Surrey CC’s usual practice is one of the big...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Reasons to be hopeful
By Tim Aldridge | 17 February 2021
Newham LBC’s children’s services is rising to the demands of the third lockdown, while continuing...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's tsar - Families should be at the centre of MPs' plans
By Ann McGauran | 15 February 2021
Radical reforms in the wake of the pandemic should include rebuilding a government department tha...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Guidance issued on school polling stations
By Martin Ford | 11 February 2021
Returning officers have been told schools used as polling stations should be given back for teach...
OFSTED
Intervention ends at Reading
By Martin Ford | 09 February 2021
Government intervention in Reading Council’s children’s services has come to an end after five ye...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Finding more funding
By Martin Ford | 02 February 2021
A flurry of Government grants have been received by local authorities in the wake of the pandemic...
OFSTED
Medway's children's services commissioner is stood down
By Ann McGauran | 01 February 2021
Medway Council will continue to run its own children’s services after the independent commissione...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
'This was liberation'
By Daisy Carter | 01 February 2021
Daisy Carter of the Innovation Unit outlines how COVID disruption inspired new ways of working in...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ombudsman warns over council buck-passing
By Martin Ford | 27 January 2021
Councils have been warned against ‘passing the buck’ in cross-border child protection cases by th...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Filling in the gaps
By Ann McGauran | 26 January 2021
The Government has launched an independent inquiry into children’s social care in England, amid c...
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Enhanced Senior Social Worker x 4
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Programme Manager - Local Government Reorganisation
£57,875 to £61,430 per annum
You will oversee the LGR Programme Plan, monitor milestones and risks, provide clear reporting Apply for this job
Business Finance Manager
£51,356 - £55,539 per annum
The role is based at County Hall, but the service is delivered through hybrid working Apply for this job
- Labour Together says 'big bang' package repairs the contract between councils and residents
- 'Hard to see' what underpins LGR other than politics, says Reform
- The LGR clock is ticking
- Conservatives pledge ban on council four-day work weeks
- From market town to modern destination: Barnsley's bold rebirth
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