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DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

What a year!

By Ann McGauran | 15 December 2020

The MJ reflects on another year in local government, significantly influenced by the pandemic tha...

FINANCE

Ministry to improve funding delivery

By Dan Peters | 14 December 2020

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has launched a year-long projec...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

EXCLUSIVE: Anger over delays to high street bid funding

By Heather Jameson | 10 December 2020

Funding to help boost the high street has not been paid to councils more than a year after the if...

WHITEHALL

Minister cools on national infrastructure levy

By Martin Ford | 09 December 2020

Government proposals for a national infrastructure levy may be dropped, a minister has suggested.

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

The PAC casts a gimlet eye on the ministry

By Michael Burton | 08 December 2020

The phrase ‘glass houses and throwing stones’ comes to mind when Government departments finger wa...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

MHCLG demands updates after Liverpool mayor arrest

By Heather Jameson | 08 December 2020

Government officials have written to the chief executive of Liverpool City Council demanding upda...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

MPs savage abandoned £192m housing scheme

By Martin Ford | 08 December 2020

A £192m affordable housing programme that failed to deliver any homes has been labelled ‘deplorab...

WHITEHALL

Lawyers brought in over Towns Fund row

By Martin Ford | 08 December 2020

Legal advisers have been summoned to break a deadlock between civil servants and MPs over a key d...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Nottingham City Council risks Section 114 if no Government bailout

By Ann McGauran | 08 December 2020

Nottingham City Council risks a Section 114 notice without a significant Government bailout, says...

FINANCE

MPs to investigate S114s amid Croydon collapse

03 December 2020

MPs have launched an investigation into the financial predicament of councils in the aftermath of...

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frederica-diamanta

Strategic Director – Place-Based Services

£Competitive

Stevenage is a town with bold ambitions. Apply for this job

Stevenage Borough Council

Executive Director of Adult Care Services

£158,000

This is an exciting time to be joining Hertfordshire County Council. Apply for this job

Hertfordshire County Council

Assistant Director - People & Change

Up to £91,625 + generous pension

Cambridge is a city of global reputation and local pride – a place of ideas, innovation and inclusion. Apply for this job

Cambridge City Council