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COUNCILLORS
The current standards regime is not fit for purpose
By Graeme McDonald | 03 July 2019
The recommendations within the Committee for Standards in Public Life report on local government ...
NEW LOCAL
Put communities in charge of public service inspection
By Adam Lent | 03 July 2019
Adam Lent considers the merits of ‘replacing inspectors swooping in and out every few years’ with...
WALES
Leader of 'fractious' council seeks Government help
By Laura Sharman | 28 June 2019
The leader of Merthyr Tydfil Council has asked the Welsh Government for help to overcome its ‘fra...
FINANCE
LGA: Audit committee improvements needed
By Dan Peters | 25 June 2019
Improvements to ‘off the pace’ audit committees can and need to be made, the Local Government Ass...
WHITEHALL
Call for Liverpool intervention after mayoral review frustration
By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019
Liverpool City Council’s Lib Dem leader has called for the Government to intervene after he claim...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Information sharing tensions found in child harm review
By Dan Peters | 12 June 2019
Legal and ethical tensions between maintaining confidentiality and sharing information are contin...
MANAGEMENT
Robots and Risk – what could possibly go wrong?
By David Foster | 12 June 2019
David Forster says that while remarkable 4th Industrial Revolution projects offer opportunities t...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Call for leader to quit after 'repeated failures'
By Dan Peters | 05 June 2019
Shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne has called for Northamptonshire CC leader, Matt G...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
'Slow progress' two years after inadequate judgement
By Dan Peters | 24 May 2019
Gloucestershire CC is making ‘slow progress’ in improving its services for its children and young...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA misses peer review target
By Heather Jameson | 24 May 2019
The Local Government Association (LGA) has missed its target to halve the number of councils that...
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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
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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