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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Optimistic nihilism
By Jonathan Carr-West | 04 July 2023
It feels like local government is close to breaking point, but it doesn’t have to be this way, sa...
FINANCE
Power through partnership
By Tom Riordan | 04 July 2023
More than a decade after the Commission on the Future of Local Government, and as we advance towa...
ELECTIONS
Warning sounded over General Election
By Martin Ford | 03 July 2023
Elections experts were united in warning of a struggle to run future polls as they faced question...
WHITEHALL
Enough chaos and confusion, now we need solutions
By Heather Jameson | 28 June 2023
No one got everything right during the pandemic, but the early days showed a failure of central G...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Opportunity knocks for the sector
27 June 2023
Ahead of next week’s Local Government Association (LGA) annual conference in Bournemouth, The MJ ...
DEVOLUTION
Revealing excellence
By Heather Jameson | 26 June 2023
The MJ Achievement Awards were an opportunity to put the energy, hard work and creativity of loca...
ELECTIONS
Uncertainty has made me very certain about the value of some things
By Gill Kneller | 26 June 2023
East Hampshire's elections revealed a hung council. Chief executive Gill Kneller says 'what stood...
ELECTIONS
Risk of 'major electoral failure,' officers warn
By Martin Ford | 26 June 2023
Pressure on council teams running elections will only be recognised in the event of a ‘major elec...
ELECTIONS
Official figures show thousands deterred by voter ID
By Martin Ford | 22 June 2023
About 14,000 people were unable to vote at polling stations in the May elections due to ID requir...
ELECTIONS
The size conspiracy
By Colin Copus | 20 June 2023
The journey towards implementing the recommendations in the Redcliffe-Maud report is based on the...
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- Council backlash over asylum reforms
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Executive Director of Transport
£128,216 – £156,241
Getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Moving Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Children and Families
£80,995 - £86,757
Our promise to Sheffield’s children and young people is that Sheffield will be a place where they belong, Apply for this job
Assistant Director of City Transport
£ to match our ambition
You’ll keep abreast of emerging approaches and best practice Apply for this job
- Council backlash over asylum reforms
- EXCLUSIVE: LGA reduces transparency of key meeting
- Local government leaders must connect the council financial crisis to lived experience
- Exclusive: Councils must be made an equal partner in designing a national care system, says Casey
- Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care
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