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Budget problem? Ask FRED
FINANCE

Budget problem? Ask FRED

By Cllr Rowan Ree | 17 July 2025

Using data and the latest technology is helping Hammersmith and Fulham LBC save money to fund vital local services, and is the latest step in the council’s approach of ruthless financial efficiency...

FINANCE

Thurrock Council seeks 'justice' following alleged fraud

By Izzy Lepone | 04 June 2025

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation into Rockfire Investment Finance fo...

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 ...

ELECTIONS

Biggs wins Tower Hamlets mayoral election re-run

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2015

Labour’s John Biggs has become the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets in a re-run of the ele...

FINANCE

Mystery of Tower Hamlets posts

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

Tower Hamlets LBC’s commissioners have approved permanent appointments to the senior posts of chi...

FINANCE

A leap of faith

By Adele Taylor | 27 May 2015

There’s a bit of a buzz building across Hertfordshire as we await a special day in our diaries, w...

BUSINESS

Council staff plead guilty to taking bribes

By MJ reporter | 20 May 2015

Two former employees of Edinburgh City Council have pleaded guilty to receiving bribes for buildi...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Council clarifies chief executive fraud comments

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 May 2015

Woking BC has clarified comments made by its chief executive after criticism he was linking the t...

LEGAL

UPDATED: Police pledge to 'fully investigate' Tower Hamlets concerns

By Dan Peters | 24 April 2015

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has pledged to ‘fully investigate’ any allegations after To...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Stand-off over counter-fraud strategy

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

A new counter-fraud strategy for councils has been delayed with the Department for Communities an...

FINANCE

Going going gone!

By Melanie Carter | 17 March 2015

With the imminent demise of the Audit Commission after nearly 30 years as local government’s spen...

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Public Health Consultant

£81,347 - £90,305

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Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

Housing Strategy and Development Manager

£50,269 - £54,495 per annum

Mansfield is a town of towns at the centre of things in Nottinghamshire Apply for this job

Mansfield District Council

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