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FINANCE
DCLG admits blame for 'broken' appeals system
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2017
A senior civil servant has admitted his department is to blame for the ‘broken’ business rates ap...
FINANCE
Porter: Rates retention will end in tears
By Dan Peters | 05 January 2017
The move to 100% business rates retention will ‘end in tears,’ the chairman of the Local Governme...
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LGA: Devolve 'outdated' growth funding system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...
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Service Director - Commissioning and Partnerships
£98, 135 - £113,630
A pivotal role at the centre of our ambitions for children, young people and families across Sandwell. Apply for this job
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