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FINANCE

LGA: Devolve 'outdated' growth funding system

By Sam Clayden | 03 January 2017

Council leaders have called for growth funding to be devolved amid concerns that the complex web ...

WHITEHALL

Improvement budget cut 'risks vital work'

By William Eichler | 03 January 2017

Whitehall risks undermining council-maintained schools by dramatically cutting their improvement ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Department for Education 'must intervene earlier' in failing child protection

By Laura Sharman | 16 December 2016

The Government has been accused by MPs of being too slow to improve child protection services.

WHITEHALL

Sector hits back at PM

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 December 2016

Town hall leaders have hit back at government claims that councils may be partly responsible for ...

FINANCE

Sharing a chief 'beneficial for taxpayers'

By James Evison | 13 December 2016

A decision by two district councils to share a chief executive has delivered ‘significant benefit...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

'Increase autonomy, and reduce hierarcy'

By James Evison | 13 December 2016

Creating workforce strategies to increase autonomy and reduce hierarchy should be an ‘absolute pr...

HEALTH

'Whitehall's failure to end trusts' charity claims wastes cash and harms health'

By Sam Clayden | 13 December 2016

Ministers’ failure to end a long-running legal dispute between NHS trusts and councils is wasting...

FINANCE

Call for rethink over 'flawed' investment crackdown

By Dan Peters | 09 December 2016

Disappointed council leaders have called for a rethink of ‘flawed’ proposals that could ‘severely...

FINANCE

Taking the temperature at The MJ's Future Forum North

By Michael Burton | 06 December 2016

Editorial director Michael Burton on what he learnt from our latest event

WHITEHALL

Councils upbeat about defeating trusts' demands for rates relief

By Sam Clayden | 06 December 2016

Councils are quietly confident of defeating NHS trusts’ claim for mandatory business rates relief...

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Strategic Director – Place-Based Services

£Competitive

Stevenage is a town with bold ambitions. Apply for this job

Stevenage Borough Council

Executive Director of Adult Care Services

£158,000

This is an exciting time to be joining Hertfordshire County Council. Apply for this job

Hertfordshire County Council

Assistant Director - People & Change

Up to £91,625 + generous pension

Cambridge is a city of global reputation and local pride – a place of ideas, innovation and inclusion. Apply for this job

Cambridge City Council