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LEGAL

Legal officers press for standards reform

By Martin Ford | 17 June 2019

The rise in the number of independent councillors has strengthened the case for a tougher standar...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: £95k exit cap regulations are 'lawyers' charter to print money'

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2019

Government regulations introducing a £95,000 cap on local government exit payments are a ‘lawyers...

WHITEHALL

Councils to appeal 'town hall Pravdas' ruling

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2019

Waltham Forest and Hackney LBCs will appeal after a judge backed Government attempts to stop them...

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...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Court ruling defends council but warns others

By Hiba Mahamadi | 10 June 2019

A crucial Supreme Court judgment has dismissed a family’s claim against a council for housing the...

PLANNING

Planning permission for council sports centre quashed

By Martin Ford | 10 June 2019

Elmbridge BC may be forced to demolish its multi-million pound sports hub after a High Court judg...

WHITEHALL

Uncertain wait for pension funds

By Dan Peters | 04 June 2019

Pension funds are mired in uncertainty as they wait to find out whether the Supreme Court accepts...

LEGAL

Council launches internal review after 'scandalous error'

By Mike Yuille | 03 June 2019

Plymouth City Council has launched an internal review of its voter registration processes after o...

FINANCE

Legal row could drag on for two years

By Dan Peters | 31 May 2019

A row between councils and supermarkets over business rates charged on cash machines could be tie...

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Chief Executive

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Ebbsfleet Development Corporation

Assistant Director Strategy & Community Regeneration

£100,592 - £106,591 per annum

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Newcastle City Council

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Ashfield District Council