CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall to increase use of 'external experts' to aid failing children's services

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

External experts will be increasingly called in to support weak or failing children’s social care...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The mayor the merrier?

By Dan Peters | 12 January 2015

Dan Peters talks to leading local government figures to assess whether directly-elected mayors ar...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Plans to create pool of external experts

By Dan Peters | 06 January 2015

Government moves away from sector-led improvement in children’s services have been criticised day...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Pickles announces ex-council chief Caller as Tower Hamlets commissioner

By Dan Peters | 17 December 2014

Former council chief executive Max Caller has been announced as one of the commissioners who will...

WHITEHALL

Amid the cuts, let's toast to local devolved government in 2015

By Heather Jameson | 16 December 2014

And so we reach the end of the year and, despite the predictions of Armageddon that have characte...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

'Keep children's social care within the sector'

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Children’s services directors have insisted that support for improvement should be sector-owned a...

ERIC PICKLES

Call for further Pickles intervention in Tower Hamlets

By Dan Peters | 01 December 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has been urged to intervene in Tower Hamlets LBC’s arrangement...

FINANCE

Boris wades into Tower Hamlets saga

By Dan Peters | 19 November 2014

Independent auditors have been called in to look at the millions of pounds of grants awarded to T...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Tower Hamlets cautions Pickles over intervention

By Dan Peters | 18 November 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles is facing calls to scale back the proposed powers of the commi...

WHITEHALL

Tower Hamlets loses legal battle

By Jamie Hailstone | 17 November 2014

A High Court judge has thrown out a second attempt by Tower Hamlets LBC to fight government moves...

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frederica-diamanta

Director - Governance

£76,134 – £88,571 (including car allowance)

As the Monitoring Officer you will work as part of the ‘Golden Triangle’ with the Head of Paid Service and s.151 officer Apply for this job

North Herts Council

Director Highways, Transport & Waste Management

up to £120k

There for Nottinghamshire. There for each other. There for you. Apply for this job

Nottinghamshire County Council

Deputy Director for Education and Inclusion

£110,000 - £120,000 & Benefits

Together, we’re shaping children’s education for the future Apply for this job

Oxfordshire County Council