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FINANCE
CIPFA: Councils' demand and deficit risks deepen
By Ann McGauran | 20 January 2026
Councils are holding higher debt levels and lower usable reserves, leaving the system more leveraged overall, a key financial index has revealed today.
BUDGET 2025
The Budget: A step towards fiscal devo
By Heather Jameson | 02 December 2025
The Budget took its first steps towards local government finance reform and Total Place 2.0, but ...
SOCIAL CARE
The cost of improvement in children's social care
By William Burns | 02 December 2025
William Burns says that improvement to children’s social care is both complex, costly and long te...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Council tax, levies and local accountability
By Iain Murray | 01 December 2025
The Budget announcements on the ‘mansion tax’, the visitor levy and SEND suggested a system stuck...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Ofsted to drop headline 'one word' judgement for children's services inspections
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Ofsted has confirmed plans to change inspections of local authorities’ children’s services (ILACS...
NCASC
Profit cap on children's placement providers 'won't be worth the paper it's written on'
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Any profit cap on providers of children’s placements in England ‘won’t be worth the paper it’s wr...
NCASC
Counting care costs
By Ann McGauran | 27 November 2025
Councils continue to face steep rises in the cost of care in both children and adult services. As...
COHESION
Standing firm in the fight for hope
By Aneeka Muneer | 27 November 2025
Aneeka Muneer says that with community tensions growing, the Law Society’s new framework will be ...
COUNCIL TAX
A Budget eye on council tax
By Paul Marinko | 19 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering council tax reform in her upcoming Budget – a move that c...
AUTUMN BUDGET
EXCLUSIVE: Budget should fund further devo, says finance expert
By Ann McGauran | 19 November 2025
Next week’s Budget should be used to fund further waves of devolution and to create a commission ...
INVESTMENT
Riding the investment wave
By Joe Fyans | 22 October 2025
Joe Fyans explores how councils can seize investment opportunities and manage risks as they tap i...
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Director of Families, Quality & Commissioning
£126,543 to £132,441
Keep children safe. Strengthen families. Lead with purpose. Apply for this job
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