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WHITEHALL
LGA backs mandatory council role in migrant children scheme
By Dan Peters | 09 September 2020
Council leaders have backed a government suggestion that the national transfer scheme for unaccom...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Responding to the rise in parental conflict during lockdown
By Virginia Ghiara | 08 September 2020
Despite a divergence in referral rates during COVID, research has found that councils are respond...
FINANCE
Criticised council makes SEND investment
By Dan Peters | 02 September 2020
Bristol City Council has pledged to spend £29m on capital works to boost services for children wi...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Survey reveals spending control plans
By Dan Peters | 01 September 2020
A dozen metropolitan councils have been forced to impose spending controls or plan to do so, surv...
LEGAL
Tribunal rules foster care workers entitled to employee rights
By William Eichler | 01 September 2020
A UK tribunal has ruled that foster care workers are council employees and therefore entitled to ...
EDUCATION
High hopes for high needs
By Leo Jones | 30 August 2020
IMPOWER has published a list of the best performing councils on high needs. Leo Jones takes a loo...
EDUCATION
The problem with averages
By Dan Corry | 30 August 2020
In the aftermath of the exams disaster it should sound obvious that the individual matters, says ...
WHITEHALL
Migrant children transfer scheme could be mandatory
By Martin Ford | 28 August 2020
The Government is consulting on making the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seek...
IMMIGRATION
Government tells councils to 'do their bit' for child asylum seekers
By William Eichler | 21 August 2020
The Home Office has called on local authorities to do more to support vulnerable children seeking...
MANAGEMENT
Council changes after 'culture of fear' found
By Dan Peters | 20 August 2020
Southampton City Council has made ‘significant changes’ to its children’s services senior leaders...
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Advanced Social Work Practitioner
£51,356.00 - £54,495.00, Grade 12, 37 hours, Permanent
You will be expected and enabled to contribute to workforce development and staff wellbeing. Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Operational Maintenance)
Special A, SCP 42-45, £53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobThis is an exciting time to join Calderdale’s Highways Maintenance service. Apply for this job
Director of Public Health
£109,483 to £122,620
This is a rare and career-defining opportunity to shape the future of public health Apply for this job
- Former local government minister Phil Woolas dies
- Recruitment challenges restricting pace of Sandwell improvement, peers find
- Wirral management overhaul to create executive director roles
- LGA to recruit interim chief
- Whitehall thinks its expenditure should be subject to less scrutiny than the local state
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