Legal

By Martin Ford | 01 December 2022

Property purchases worth £229m made by Spelthorne BC may have been unlawful, its external auditor...

WHITEHALL

Luton latest to head to courts over asylum

By Dan Peters | 28 November 2022

Luton BC has joined the councils taking legal action as the Home Office continues to place asylum...

PLANNING

County threatens districts with legal action

By Martin Ford | 28 November 2022

A county council has threatened legal action against district authorities over funding for infras...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Jenrick vows to improve relationship with sector on asylum

By Dan Peters | 22 November 2022

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has told the sector the Home Office is ‘very keen to improve ...

We had little option but to take legal action around housing asylum seekers

By Sheila Oxtoby | 16 November 2022

Great Yarmouth is among a number of councils in the midst of legal proceedings around the accommo...

LEGAL

Asylum hotel injunctions rejected

By Martin Ford | 14 November 2022

The High Court has rejected two applications for injunctions to block the use of hotels as accomm...

LEGAL

'Multiple opportunities' missed to prevent Grenfell fire

By Martin Ford | 10 November 2022

In written evidence to the inquiry into the June 2017 fire, Kensington & Chelsea LBC said it ‘apo...

LEGAL

Two more councils seek injunctions on asylum hotel use

By Laura Sharman | 09 November 2022

Two more councils have taken legal action to stop hotels from being used to house asylum seekers.

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils could resurrect legal action over asylum

By Dan Peters | 07 November 2022

Government attempts to fix the UK’s ‘broken’ asylum system could be hit as West Midlands mets thr...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Cost of reforms is 'elephant in the room'

By Mark Conrad | 07 November 2022

A failure to estimate the cost of proposed reforms suggested by the National Inquiry into Child S...

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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

Nottingham City Council