FINANCE

Tories split as Pickles fights for 1% referendum cap

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014

Local authorities are facing a Christmas headache if Eric Pickles wins an internal party row to s...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Force councils to adopt local plans, CLG committee demands

By Jonathan Werran | 16 December 2014

Government planning reforms should be amended to tackle anxieties about inappropriate and unsusta...

FINANCE

LGA's bonds agency given green light

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2014

Plans for the UK’s first municipal bonds agency have been given the green light to enter the laun...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

New head of corporate communications at Cardiff

10 December 2014

Tim Gordon has started his new post as the Cardiff City Council’s new head of corporate communica...

FINANCE

SOLACE/CIPFA deal aims to add more financial 'variety'

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

Two officer-led local government organisations are in talks to develop a finance-based sector-led...

WHITEHALL

Chiefs critical of coalition's city bias

By Jonathan Werran | 10 December 2014

County chiefs have voiced their criticism of what they claim is the coalition’s bias in favour of...

FINANCE

Chiefs attack tax referendums

By Jonathan Werran | 10 December 2014

Council chiefs have attacked the coalition’s plans to set thresholds for council tax referendums ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Axe fears over top-slice

By Dan Peters | 10 December 2014

The future of sector-led improvement hangs in the balance with fears that Whitehall’s grant to th...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A worrying trend towards self-sufficiency

By Frances Foster | 05 December 2014

Treasurer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Frances Foster, on the unfairne...

FINANCE

Councils are footing academies bill, says LGA

By Jamie Hailstone | 05 December 2014

Councils have been left to foot the mulit-million pound costs of schools converting to academy st...

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Highways Capital Delivery Manager

£50,788 - £52,805

To be responsible for the implementation of Welsh Government’s Renewal and Upgrade programme. Apply for this job

South Wales Trunk Road Agent

Chief Innovation and Commercial Officer

£113,434 - £127,225 per annum

Join a values-driven council where people come first — and your potential has no limits. Apply for this job

Cumberland Council

Director - Governance

£76,134 – £88,571 (including car allowance)

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North Herts Council

frederica-diamanta

Highways Capital Delivery Manager

£50,788 - £52,805

To be responsible for the implementation of Welsh Government’s Renewal and Upgrade programme. Apply for this job

South Wales Trunk Road Agent

Chief Innovation and Commercial Officer

£113,434 - £127,225 per annum

Join a values-driven council where people come first — and your potential has no limits. Apply for this job

Cumberland Council

Director - Governance

£76,134 – £88,571 (including car allowance)

As the Monitoring Officer you will work as part of the ‘Golden Triangle’ with the Head of Paid Service and s.151 officer Apply for this job

North Herts Council