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COUNCILLORS
Avoiding a 'make it so' mentality
24 April 2023
The MJ’s series of articles on avoiding organisational failure continues with a look at the impor...
FINANCE
Council to review governance failures
By Martin Ford | 19 April 2023
Devon CC is to embark on a governance review in a bid to tackle ‘serious, material, well-evidence...
LEGAL
Let's go legal
By Ben Cox | 18 April 2023
Penna’s Ben Cox outlines the findings from a panel in which the group looked at the ever increasi...
SOLACE
Lessons on leadership and governance
By Professor Catherine Staite | 18 April 2023
Paul Dossett and Professor Catherine Staite consider what can be learned from the varied and comp...
SCRUTINY
Give locals a seat at the table
By Courtney Stephenson | 12 April 2023
Providing MPs the ability to scrutinise policy implemented by combined authorities does nothing t...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The drumbeat of oversight could be a good thing
By Ed Hammond | 12 April 2023
Ed Hammond examines the emerging accountability framework in local government and says that, rath...
WHITEHALL
Oflog should look at council effectiveness, says accountancy body
By Dan Peters | 11 April 2023
The industry body for accountants has called for the new local government watchdog to play a key ...
WHITEHALL
Oflog 'could help strengthen local government accountability'
By Dan Peters | 06 April 2023
The executive Mayor of beleaguered Croydon has suggested the Government’s new local government wa...
SCRUTINY
Accountability is not a one-way street
By Jessica Studdert | 04 April 2023
Even if Oflog starts life with a light touch, 'there’s little to guard against mission creep seve...
LEGISLATION
Perfecting the art of procurement
By John Tizard | 04 April 2023
The Procurement Bill should have been bolder and stronger, says John Tizard. But there is nothing...
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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
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
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
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
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