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FINANCE

Council tax hikes won't be enough, Hunt warned

By Martin Ford | 16 November 2022

Council tax rises alone will not be enough to bridge the gaping budget shortfalls faced by local ...

WHITEHALL

Ministers expected to stick with referendum threshold

By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022

Whitehall officials are not expecting returning local government secretary Michael Gove to make c...

COUNCIL TAX

Local response to crisis offers some hope

By Jonathan Carr-West | 26 October 2022

Dr Jonathan Carr-West says financially vulnerable councils are providing heroic levels of support...

LONDON COUNCILS

Prognosis grim but not incurable

By Cllr Georgia Gould | 24 October 2022

Cllr Georgia Gould says London’s boroughs have sprung into action to help those most at risk from...

COUNCIL TAX

Policy trumps PR

By Dan Corry | 19 October 2022

Dan Corry says the Prime Minister has perhaps now learned that if a policy is fundamentally poor,...

WHITEHALL

Sector split over finance settlement

By Mark Conrad | 11 October 2022

Financial uncertainty has split opinion over whether local government should push for a multi-yea...

COUNCIL TAX

Districts need certainty on funding

By Ian Miller | 10 October 2022

A two-year settlement – even if it is worse than previously envisaged – would at least allow some...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Mini-Budget: Government in 'early discussions' on investment zones

By Ann McGauran | 23 September 2022

The Government is in ‘early discussions with nearly 40 places’ including Tees Valley and the West...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Birmingham has no alternative other than to declare a cost of living crisis

By Cllr Ian Ward | 12 September 2022

As Birmingham City Council declares a cost of living emergency, leader Ian Ward says the Prime Mi...

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES

More grant funding, not devolved tax powers, will support levelling up

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 31 August 2022

Sir Stephen Houghton says fiscal devolution is not a ‘levelling up’ silver bullet – and a new ref...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development

£73,908 - £85,884

As Head of HR and OD Apply for this job

Swansea Council

Director of Environment and Housing

£104,451 - £115,830

Welcome to the Vale of Glamorgan Apply for this job

Vale of Glamorgan Council

Head of Transformation and Change

£69,210 - £77,728

The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority was established as a new organisation in early 2024. Apply for this job

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority