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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Press pause on fair funding review

By Heather Jameson | 15 May 2019

Crippled by austerity and uncertainty, councils are financially paralysed and facing failure. Hea...

COUNCIL TAX

'Smart bins' and tax cuts could help increase recycling rates - report

By William Eichler | 13 May 2019

Local authorities could use ‘smart bins’ and council tax cuts to help drive up recycling rates in...

FINANCE

Localised council tax support schemes six years on

By Thomas Pope | 16 April 2019

Stuart Adam and Thomas Pope of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfS) estimate a quarter of the a...

COUNCIL TAX

London councils unite to reveal pockets of poverty

By Deven Ghelani | 15 April 2019

Deven Ghelani outlines how a collaboration involving 18 London boroughs has resulted in a data an...

COUNCIL TAX

Whitehall pledges to end aggressive council tax debt collection

By Laura Sharman | 11 April 2019

The way local authorities recover unpaid council tax is to be reviewed by the Government in a bid...

FINANCE

Plea to fund social care through insurance

By Martin Ford | 09 April 2019

A minister has been asked to consider mandatory insurance to ease social care funding pressures i...

COUNCIL TAX

Wales launches 'resident-focused' council tax reforms

By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 April 2019

Council tax debtors in Wales will no longer be at risk of imprisonment as part of a new initiativ...

WHITEHALL

Councils defend council tax hikes

By Heather Jameson | 27 March 2019

Councils have had ‘little choice’ but to raise council tax to protect local services, the Local G...

FINANCE

A taxing problem

By Heather Jameson | 21 March 2019

Heather Jameson looks at the latest report from the IFS’s Local Government Finance Commission, wh...

SOCIAL CARE

Waiting for Godot and the Social Care Green Paper

By Heather Jameson | 19 March 2019

Public finances are outperforming expectations, but the post-spring statement briefing from the I...

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frederica-diamanta

Road Safety Manager

£60,532 - £63,895

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Gloucestershire County Council

Head of Neighbourhood Operations

£68,268 - £72,640

This is a deliberate, innovative approach to collaboration, designed to unlock scale, capability and influence Apply for this job

Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent Councils

Director of Commissioning, Procurement & Contract Management

£99k - £103k

When you’re spending ten figures a year, you need to be way beyond just asking ‘how many, and how much? Apply for this job

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