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CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Warning over councillor-officer problems
By Mark Conrad | 21 November 2022
A governance review of Southampton City Council has warned the authority’s new administration cou...
FINANCE
Are two heads better than one when things go wrong?
By Chris Buss | 17 November 2022
Rather than one ‘Roman God’ tackling external intervention, Chris Buss and Duncan Whitfield say a...
FINANCE
District to examine case for borrowing
By Mark Conrad | 14 November 2022
Breckland DC will supply enhanced financial reports to its executive and membership to assess whe...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Gove to push ahead with light-touch intervention plans
By Dan Peters | 08 November 2022
Senior civil servants are expected to push ahead with plans to introduce more light-touch financi...
WHITEHALL
Devolution not enough to fix governance, say MPs
By Heather Jameson | 31 October 2022
Governance in England is not fit for purpose and devolution plans are not enough to fix the probl...
FINANCE
Moving towards sound financial management
By Steve Freer | 26 October 2022
Steve Freer sets out some of the actions which need to be considered to achieve real progress in ...
COMMERCIALISM
Evaluating innovation and risk
By Camilla de Bernhardt Lane | 26 October 2022
Camilla de Bernhardt Lane examines the value of scrutinising councils’ financial innovation and c...
COUNCILLORS
Standards chair challenges government
By Martin Ford | 25 October 2022
The Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) has expressed disappointment over Government rej...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Left or right is of less interest to a chief executive than 'hands on or hands off'
By Blair McPherson | 24 October 2022
The party in power in a council is less important to a chief executive than the extent to which m...
HEALTH
Breaking the health outcomes gridlock
By Aidan Rave | 19 October 2022
Aidan Rave says if councils can harness their place-based networks then Integrated Care Boards co...
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Advanced Social Work Practitioner
£51,356.00 - £54,495.00, Grade 12, 37 hours, Permanent
You will be expected and enabled to contribute to workforce development and staff wellbeing. Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Operational Maintenance)
Special A, SCP 42-45, £53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobThis is an exciting time to join Calderdale’s Highways Maintenance service. Apply for this job
Director of Public Health
£109,483 to £122,620
This is a rare and career-defining opportunity to shape the future of public health Apply for this job
- Former local government minister Phil Woolas dies
- Recruitment challenges restricting pace of Sandwell improvement, peers find
- Wirral management overhaul to create executive director roles
- Whitehall thinks its expenditure should be subject to less scrutiny than the local state
- Getting local government reorganisation land transfers right
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