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BUSINESS

Let LEPs grow the skills provision

By Mark Bretton | 29 June 2022

It defies logic that local enterprise partnerships are being needlessly frozen out of the bidding...

BUSINESS

Will new Levelling Up Fund round repeat 'beauty contest'?

By Dr Nicola Headlam | 12 May 2022

Dr Nicola Headlam says the Government may have renewed its commitment to empower local leaders bu...

FINANCE

Will the fair funding review be another damp squib?

By David Phillips | 11 May 2022

David Phillips says that, if the fair funding review becomes a repeat of the UK Shared Prosperity...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Government must back up claim that UKSPF provides real terms match

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 04 May 2022

If the Government is sure the UK Shared Prosperity Fund provides a real terms match for every LEP...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Funding decision signals 'waning influence' of LEPs

By Chris Mahony | 12 April 2022

The Government’s decision to slash funding for growth hubs and local enterprise partnerships (LEP...

DEVOLUTION

Helping the mayoral medicine go down

By Sheila Oxtoby | 15 March 2022

There is a willingness to enter into negotiations on a county deal in good faith, but there seems...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Four strengths of LEPs

By Mark Bretton | 15 March 2022

Mark Bretton asks how we can marry up the Levelling Up White Paper’s ‘warm words’ about local ent...

BUSINESS

Give communities a real stake in skills improvement

By Dr Marius S Ostrowski | 08 March 2022

Dr Marius Ostrowski says Local Skills Improvement Plans, one of the Government’s key Levelling Up...

DEVOLUTION

Still no fiscal fix

By Heather Jameson | 09 February 2022

What is missing from the Levelling Up White Paper, can its targets can be met and how does the Go...

BUSINESS

Partnership is the key to future prosperity for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire

By Alun Rogers | 07 February 2022

The Levelling Up White Paper has recognised the value of LEPs, public-private partnership and the...

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Talent Acquisition Lead (Manger)

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frederica-diamanta

Talent Acquisition Lead (Manger)

Band I SCP 44-47 (£55,609 - £59,025 per annum)

Ready to shape the future of talent acquisition in local government and make a real impact? Apply for this job

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Principal Lawyer - Children and/or Adult Safeguarding

£51,356 - £56,494

Do you want to make a difference to local people? Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Industrial Relations and HR Policy Manager

£54,495 - £57,864

What You’ll Do This is a unique opportunity to step into a strategic role at the heart of industrial relations. As Industrial Relations & HR Polic... Apply for this job

Oxfordshire County Council