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LEGISLATION
Peers pass fire and hire exemption
By Heather Jameson | 22 July 2025
Councils with financial problems that are placed under government intervention may be exempt from a ban on sacking and then rehiring employees.
REORGANISATION
EXCLUSIVE: Crawley ponders legal response to unitary dismissal
By Dan Peters | 17 July 2025
Crawley BC is considering its next steps, including a potential judicial review, after local gove...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Care prevention spending drops by 10%
By Izzy Lepone | 15 July 2025
Overstretched budgets mean that care leaders have been forced to reduce spending on prevention by...
LEGISLATION
Unite hits out at Labour over fire and rehire threat
By Heather Jameson | 09 July 2025
Birmingham bin strike union Unite has hit out at Labour after it became clear an amendment to emp...
LEGISLATION
Unite hits out at Labour in fire and rehire move
By Heather Jameson | 09 July 2025
Councils under government intervention could be exempt from a legal ban on so-called fire and reh...
FINANCE
Council pressures have 'increased significantly', says OBR
By Dan Peters | 09 July 2025
Councils face ‘growing risks to their financial sustainability’, the UK’s official forecaster has...
PODCASTS
Our World is Local: Law, governance and kindness, with Rachel McKoy
29 June 2025
Newham LBC's Rachel McKoy lifts the lid on one of local government’s most vital but often least u...
FINANCE
Legal warning over Reform's pension plans
By Dan Peters | 26 June 2025
A legal expert has warned Reform UK councils will not be able to slash local authority pensions.
POLITICS
Council warns Government plan would force £95m savings
By Dan Peters | 26 June 2025
Croydon LBC would have to deliver the ‘highest level of service cuts made by one council in one y...
LEADERSHIP
In tandem at the top
By Ann McGauran | 17 June 2025
Stepping into high profile professional leadership roles in the sector is benefitting their own c...
GOVERNANCE
Governance under the spotlight
By Seb Lowe | 16 June 2025
More than ever, councils need to have the right systems of finance and governance in place – and ...
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Director of Transport
£112,924
Premium jobEast Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) is on a bold journey. Apply for this job
Director of Children’s Services (DCS)
£129,000
Be the DCS you always wanted to be. Apply for this job
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£51,356 - £52,413
As the ICT Infrastructure Manager at Westmorland and Furness Council Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Director suspended by county amid reorganisation vacuum
- Reform council asks officers to look at single Kent unitary
- Calls for higher pay for social care as UK worker numbers continue to fall
- Council fired officers after overspend concerns
- Lambeth to slash senior management to help plug £84m funding gap
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