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HOUSING
Calls to ease borrowing restrictions in wake of homes buying blitz
By By Paul Marinko | 03 September 2026
Councils are demanding the Government ease borrowing restrictions to help them confront the natio...
HOUSING
Councils bulk buying housing from developers to ease pressures
By Paul Marinko | 03 September 2026
With the housing market stalled, councils are bulk buying homes intended for private sale at huge...
HOMELESSNESS
Let's start with prevention
By Jack Shaw | 03 September 2026
Jack Shaw looks at how government can make homelessness prevention a whole-place responsibility a...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Evict parents of anti-social children, think-tank suggests
By Joe Lepper | 02 September 2026
Social housing tenants who are parents of persistently anti-social children should be evicted fro...
HOUSING
Turning housing ambition into local government delivery
By Victoria Searle | 02 September 2026
Andy Burnham’s pledges to end rough sleeping and usher in the biggest post-war council housebuild...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Sir James replaced by Lam in shadow Cabinet reshuffle
By Dan Peters | 01 September 2026
Shadow Home Office minister and assistant whip Katie Lam has been appointed shadow housing, commu...
HOUSING
Another multi-million pound loss for Cambridgeshire CC-owned company
By Neil Merrick | 28 August 2026
A council-owned development company that borrowed £120m from its parent local authority has poste...
DEVOLUTION
Quango conundrum
By Ann McGauran | 27 August 2026
Rewiring the State promises a serious look at whether arm’s-length bodies’ powers and funding sh...
HOUSING
Sector split on direction of Government's housebuilding boost
By William Eichler | 26 August 2026
The Government’s funding boost for housebuilding has split the sector, with rural councils hittin...
HOUSING
Government announces £10bn to kickstart council housebuilding drive
By William Eichler | 25 August 2026
Local authority leaders have welcomed the first wave of funding from the Government's £39bn Socia...
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- Local government reorganisation: Financial sustainability amid uncertainty
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Local government reorganisation: Keeping services options open
- LGA proposes alternative to commissioners
- Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
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You will lead an organisation with ambition, complexity and reach, while helping shape the future of a place Apply for this job
Director of Family Help & Children’s Social Care
Up to £123,477
To help drive this vision forward, we’re seeking an exceptional Director of Family Help & Children’s Social Care. Apply for this job
Deputy Director Children’s Services (Director of Children’s Social Care)
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Reporting to the Director of Children’s Services, you will lead services across one of England Apply for this job
- Local government reorganisation: Financial sustainability amid uncertainty
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Local government reorganisation: Keeping services options open
- LGA proposes alternative to commissioners
- Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
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