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HUMAN RESOURCES

Staff shortages erode switch to community-based services

By Jamie Hailstone | 25 November 2014

A new report by the King’s Fund has warned that government plans to move to community-based servi...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Working challenges

By Jack Airey | 24 November 2014

Local government has had to make radical changes in the last four years to cope with austerity fi...

FINANCE

UNISON chief: town hall bosses 'not much better' than Mike Ashley

By Jonathan Werran | 18 November 2014

Council employers are not much better than controversial Sports Direct retailer Mike Ashley, comp...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Unions accept LGA pay offer

By Jonathan Werran | 14 November 2014

The three main local government trade unions have voted to accept an improved pay offer from coun...

FINANCE

Public service mutuals: a work in progress

By Kristian Scholfield | 14 November 2014

Francis Maude's dream of one million public sector staff working in John Lewis-style employee-led...

FINANCE

Manchester's children's services face £54m budget axe

By Jonathan Werran | 14 November 2014

Manchester City Council’s beleaguered children’s services department is set to bear the brunt of ...

HEALTH

Playing it safe?

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Dan Peters reports from a recent round table in which chief executives weighed up the biggest imp...

BUSINESS

GatenbySanderson buy-out

By Jonathan Werran | 12 November 2014

Public sector recruitment specialists GatenbySanderson has completed a management buy-out of the ...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

MJ People 13 November

11 November 2014

HUMAN RESOURCES

Reworking the vision thing

By Nicola Bulbeck | 11 November 2014

Nicola Bulbeck explains how Teingbridge staff helped build a shared common vision to uphold the d...