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COUNCILLORS
Security costs exemption for election spend limits
By Mark Conrad | 29 January 2024
Local government minister Simon Hoare this week confirmed key security costs for local elections ...
COUNCILLORS
Meeting endless
23 January 2024
Plymouth City Council wants to speed up public meetings after complaints that recent gatherings w...
WHITEHALL
LGA calls for powers to withhold councillors' address
By Mark Conrad | 10 January 2024
Monitoring officers should be allowed to withhold councillors’ home addresses from public registe...
PLANNING
Wrexham members avoid development plan 'jail threat'
By Mark Conrad | 21 December 2023
Councillors in Wrexham have avoided the threat of jail by approving a development plan – but some...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Councillor-officer relations coming under pressure
By Martin Ford | 20 December 2023
Relations between councillors and officers are being tested by the increasing financial pressures...
RECRUITMENT
Balancing pressure and passion
By Steve Guest | 13 December 2023
There's a great need to get more people choosing a career in local government. But for those in t...
LEGAL
Future Forum North: Monitoring officers need 'seat at top table'
By Martin Ford | 08 December 2023
More work is needed to bolster the role of the monitoring officer in councils, the MJ Future Foru...
DEVOLUTION
Norfolk devolution scheduled delayed
By Martin Ford | 04 December 2023
Norfolk’s level 3 devolution deal is set to be pushed back to 2025.
COUNCILLORS
Meetings are a riot in LA
29 November 2023
If Jackie Weaver thought Handforth meetings could get a bit tetchy, spare a thought for the good ...
COUNCILLORS
Mayor failed to intervene following bullying
By Martin Ford | 27 November 2023
Details have emerged of a bullying probe at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority th...
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- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- LGA's first chair Lord Beecham dies
- Councils can't deliver better public understanding of AI without resource
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Building Safety Regulator launches improvement plan
Head of Internal Communications
£59,526 - £74,040 per year
Southwark Council is strengthening how it communicates with staff and residents... Apply for this job
Head of Change
£69,537 - £86,766 per yea
Southwark is delivering an ambitious transformation programme to improve services and deliver financial sustainability. Apply for this job
Head of Data, Performance and Insight
£69,537 - £86,766 per year
Southwark is strengthening how it uses data, insight and performance information to support better decision-making and improve outcomes for residents. Apply for this job
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- LGA's first chair Lord Beecham dies
- Councils can't deliver better public understanding of AI without resource
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Building Safety Regulator launches improvement plan
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