Immigration

By Dan Peters | 22 November 2021

Delays in matching Afghan refugees with available accommodation should now be decreasing, a senio...

WHITEHALL

LGA lobbies Patel on asylum pressures

By Dan Peters | 15 November 2021

Senior councillors have written to ministers expressing their concerns about the resettlement of ...

WHITEHALL

Councils offer almost 1,000 properties in Afghan asylum drive

By Dan Peters | 25 October 2021

Councils have offered almost 1,000 properties to support the resettlement and relocation of Afgha...

WHITEHALL

Watchdog calls for mandatory transfer scheme

By Martin Ford | 20 October 2021

Ofsted has joined calls for councils to be required to take in unaccompanied asylum-seeking child...

HOUSING

The power of quiet diplomacy

By Martin Ford | 20 October 2021

Outgoing chair of the District Councils’ Network, Cllr John Fuller, talks to Martin Ford about hi...

HEALTH

Afghan refugees must be given the tools to thrive, not just survive

By Geeta Nanda | 04 October 2021

More must be done if the thousands of Afghan refugees being enthusiastically welcomed to the UK a...

WHITEHALL

Council accuses government of ignoring planned legal challenge

By Chris Mahony | 28 September 2021

Blackpool Council has accused the Home Office and Serco of ignoring a planned legal challenge ove...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

ADASS warning over settled status

By Dan Peters | 16 September 2021

Many older and vulnerable European nationals living in the UK may still not have applied for sett...

Afghanistan – stepping carefully through a difficult period

15 September 2021

Chief executive of Staffordshire CC John Henderson, who led British and NATO forces in Afghanista...

WHITEHALL

Councils prepare for legal battle with Home Office

By Martin Ford | 14 September 2021

Seven authorities have launched proceedings against the Home Office over the asylum dispersal sch...

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Team Manager - Locality

£55,979.00, Grade 13

Wakefield Children’s Services have been rated by Ofsted as GOOD with outstanding leadership. Apply for this job

Wakefield Council

Executive Director – Adult Social Care, Health & Wellbeing

£131,208 (Hay 1)

Lead with Purpose. Build on Excellence. Shape the Future of Health and Wellbeing in Sefton. Apply for this job

Sefton Borough Council

Strategic Finance Business Partners (five roles)

up to £80k

Nottingham is a bold, vibrant, and exciting Core City at the heart of the UK, alive with potential and ambition. Apply for this job

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