Ministers urged to reconsider pace of pensions reform
FINANCE

Ministers urged to reconsider pace of pensions reform

16 January 2025

Ministers have been urged to ‘seriously reconsider’ the fast pace of their reform to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

FINANCE

Lessons from literature

By Tracie Langley | 15 January 2025

Classic novels' warnings of the abuse of money and power are as relevant now as when they were fi...

PLACE-MAKING

In need of a place lift

By Stephen Taylor | 15 January 2025

Stephen Taylor says there is no need to wait for the English Devolution Bill to trundle through b...

REORGANISATION

New year of everything, everywhere, all at once

By Heather Jameson | 15 January 2025

'If the Labour Government is successful in its plans to scrap two-tier local government during it...

FINANCE

Chiefs expecting pressure to spend ahead of reorganisation

By Martin Ford | 14 January 2025

Council chiefs expect to come under intense pressure from leaders to sanction questionable spendi...

FINANCE

National Insurance compensation is 'total shambles'

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2025

The Government’s handling of compensating councils for the increase in employers’ National Insura...

PRIVATE SECTOR

Jones: Private sector to examine Whitehall efficiency

13 January 2025

Private sector ‘experts’ could be drafted into the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Gov...

FINANCE

We can't wait for finance reform

By Patrick Meila | 13 January 2025

Despite the pace of change in local government, the crisis in local government finance remain unt...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Special educational needs statutory override is 'abomination'

By Martin Ford | 09 January 2025

Accountancy alone will not be enough to end the ‘abomination’ of statutory overrides for special ...

FINANCE

Warning to councils after £1m fraud case

By William Eichler | 09 January 2025

Local authorities have been urged to learn from weaknesses that enabled an Aberdeen City Council ...

REORGANISATION

McMahon: No cap on devo priority programme

By Martin Ford | 09 January 2025

There will be no cap on the number of areas included in the Government’s devolution priority prog...

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Oxfordshire County Council

Director People and Organisational Change

Grade 18 - £101,540 - £111,491 plus industry leading benefits package

You will lead and direct the council wide management of transformational workforce changes. Apply for this job

Derbyshire County Council