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FINANCE

Essex challenges evidence base for Basildon unitary bid

By Martin Ford | 12 February 2020

Essex CC’s leader has questioned the benefits of Basildon BC’s pursuit of unitary status.

FINANCE

Scottish councils' improvements 'stalling'

By Martin Ford | 31 January 2020

Spending on culture and leisure, economic development, and roads all fell by around a quarter las...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Examining the boarding school effect

By Paul Marinko | 28 January 2020

Councils appear to be reluctant to explore the option of placing the children they support at boa...

EDUCATION

Cyber Central transformation

By Heather Jameson | 28 January 2020

Rather than wait for a private developer to buy land next to the GCHQ building, the council stepp...

EDUCATION

Medway caves after Ombudsman rap

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2020

Medway Council has finally accepted the recommendations in a Local Government Ombudsman public in...

FINANCE

Let's put investment into our school buildings

By Gary Fielding | 15 January 2020

Schools capital allocations have been skewed by political priorities, says Gary Fielding As a res...

EDUCATION

Sutton set to take full ownership of outsourced education company

By Martin Ford | 09 January 2020

An independent report has found that the company had ‘moved away’ from the council’s ‘ambitions a...

EDUCATION

'We must do more than tinker at the edges'

By Phil Norrey | 09 January 2020

The system needs a truly sustainable multi-year financial settlement to ensure children and young...

LONDON COUNCILS

A gap that will prove hard to close

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2020

Dan Peters investigates the scale of the funding challenge faced by the 32 councils told by the G...

EDUCATION

Bristol is the first city worldwide to adopt a Period-Friendly Places model

By Cllr Helen Godwin | 20 December 2019

Cllr Helen Godwin explains how Bristol is tackling the issue of period poverty - becoming the wor...

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Head of Service - Assessment & Intervention

£62,474 - £73,056 plus a Market Rate Supplement

Join a creative, forward-thinking senior leadership team within Children and Families at Kirklees Council. Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

General Manager – Building Safety Compliance

£51,356 - £53,460

Building safety for our homes and neighbourhoods is a top priority at Kirklees Council. Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Service Director - Education and SEND

£103,212 to £110,106 per annum (Grade O)

West Berkshire Council is seeking an exceptional Service Director for Education and SEND to join our Children’s Services family Apply for this job

West Berkshire Council

frederica-diamanta

Head of Service - Assessment & Intervention

£62,474 - £73,056 plus a Market Rate Supplement

Join a creative, forward-thinking senior leadership team within Children and Families at Kirklees Council. Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

General Manager – Building Safety Compliance

£51,356 - £53,460

Building safety for our homes and neighbourhoods is a top priority at Kirklees Council. Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Service Director - Education and SEND

£103,212 to £110,106 per annum (Grade O)

West Berkshire Council is seeking an exceptional Service Director for Education and SEND to join our Children’s Services family Apply for this job

West Berkshire Council