FINANCE

Property investment crackdown could be 'potentially disastrous' - LGA

By Dan Peters | 22 December 2017

A crackdown on council property investment could be ‘potentially disastrous’ for some authorities...

WHITEHALL

LGA attacks 'counter-productive' cut

By Dan Peters | 21 December 2017

A cut to councils’ public health grants has been criticised by the Local Government Association (...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Councillors shout, bang tables and threaten to sack officers

By Dan Peters | 20 December 2017

‘Stretched’ officers are working in an environment with insufficient corporate capacity at Derby ...

WHITEHALL

Pressure growing on DCLG as Fair Funding wait goes on

By Mark Conrad | 14 December 2017

Ahead of next week’s finance settlement, local government has been warned it faces a longer-than-...

FINANCE

Child protection inquiry figures double in a decade

By Sam Clayden | 12 December 2017

Councils are undertaking more than double the number of child protection investigations than they...

WHITEHALL

LGA calls for fairer funding in finance settlement

11 December 2017

The Local Government Association has warned that council are heading towards a ‘funding cliff-edg...

EUROPEAN UNION

Council leaders call for 'urgent clarity' over EU funding

By William Eichler | 07 December 2017

Council chiefs yesterday called on the Government to provide ‘urgent clarity’ over how it will re...

HEALTH

LGA chief says BCF has 'come to end of its life'

By Sam Clayden | 01 December 2017

The Better Care Fund (BCF) in its current form has ‘come to the end of it’s life’, the chief exec...

WHITEHALL

LGA chief chosen for new homelessness panel

By Dan Peters | 30 November 2017

Local Government Association chief executive Mark Lloyd will represent the sector as a member of ...

FINANCE

Lawrenson in statutory services warning

By Dan Peters | 30 November 2017

Councils that deliver social care will not have sustainable statutory services by 2019/20, the in...

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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

frederica-diamanta

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