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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Delay to Northamptonshire reorganisation welcomed
By Dan Peters | 14 May 2019
Council leaders have welcomed the year-long delay to plans to create two new unitaries in Northam...
MANAGEMENT
Do no evil
By Blair McPherson | 14 May 2019
Defining integrity is easy, says Blair Mcpherson. The difficult part is applying it in a complex ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Senior officer capacity call
By Dan Peters | 10 May 2019
Stroud DC should expand its senior officer capacity as soon as it can to help chief executive Kat...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Elvery: Improving children's outcomes is top priority after Ofsted blow
By Dan Peters | 10 May 2019
West Sussex CC’s boss Nathan Elvery has said improving outcomes for the most vulnerable children ...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: Fight for oversight
By EXCLUSIVE by Heather Jameson | 09 May 2019
Brokenshire moves to impose fresh conditions on ‘top slice’ cash
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Inspectors criticise council's pace of improvement
By Dan Peters | 08 May 2019
The overall pace of improvement in Reading Council’s children’s services has ‘not been sufficient...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Making progress in Powys
By Dan Peters | 16 April 2019
An inspection revealing child protection processes at Powys CC were not good enough came as a ‘h...
FINANCE
Doubts over new taxes to fund Commonwealth Games
By Martin Ford | 15 April 2019
New forms of tax are unlikely to fill a £40m hole in funding for the Commonwealth Games budget, c...
FINANCE
Travelling on the long road to improvement
By Heather Jameson | 09 April 2019
After the big developments of the past week – with the improvement team finishing its interventio...
IMPROVEMENT
Brum improvement team issues final damning judgement and walks away
By Heather Jameson | 02 April 2019
Birmingham City Council’s intervention team has issued a final, damning report on the crisis-hit ...
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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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