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WHITEHALL
Spending Review will 'fail to offer long-term view' for sector
By Dan Peters | 22 September 2020
This year’s Spending Review will fail to offer a long-term view for local government, The MJ unde...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall draws up early warning system
By Dan Peters | 22 September 2020
The Government is plotting to create an early warning system alerting Whitehall to councils that ...
COUNCIL TAX
Why councils should support the expansion of Fair for You
By Damon Gibbons | 22 September 2020
As part of their plans to reshape financial support for residents, councils should enter into fo...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
Talk to councils first on COVID
By Bob Neill | 22 September 2020
The centre’s lack of communication with councils on crucial aspects of COVID policy – including t...
WHITEHALL
New oversight body 'dead in the water' without legislation
By Dan Peters | 21 September 2020
Sir Tony Redmond’s proposals for a new audit oversight body are ‘dead in the water’ unless the Go...
WHITEHALL
Council leaders told to start preparing for self-isolation support scheme
By Dan Peters | 21 September 2020
English council leaders have been asked to start preparing to implement financial support for peo...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The business rates system needs to go
By Sir Stephen Houghton | 18 September 2020
Today is the deadline for the call for evidence for the Treasury’s review of business rates. Rat...
FINANCE
Croydon would have issued s114 'in normal circumstances'
By Dan Peters | 17 September 2020
Croydon LBC’s £49m total net forecast general fund overspend means it would have had to have issu...
SOCIAL CARE
Forget the charm, local government needs certainty
By Heather Jameson | 16 September 2020
Heather Jameson asks if Boris Johnson’s surprise appearance on a local government call this week ...
FINANCE
Before reorganisation we need a clear view of the sector's core purpose
By Abdool Kara | 16 September 2020
How local government 'can sensibly be reorganised without a clear view of its core purpose (will ...
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- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Toxic member behaviour risks local government excellence
- Brighton faces 'unquantifiable' liability over equal pay claims
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
Director of Legal and Governance
£109,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Finance
£131,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
£108,015 - £118,000 pa
Operational leadership that turns strategy into reality. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Toxic member behaviour risks local government excellence
- Brighton faces 'unquantifiable' liability over equal pay claims
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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