WHITEHALL

Sector bids for key Covid inquiry role

By Dan Peters | 05 September 2022

Local government is bidding to have a key role in the looming coronavirus inquiry.

FINANCE

Call for inflation support from Truss

By Martin Ford | 05 September 2022

Councils have warned of service cuts if new Prime Minister Liz Truss fails to provide further fin...

FINANCE

£1bn COVID grant still to be paid out to businesses

By Dan Peters | 30 August 2022

More than £1bn of the 2021-22 COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF) had not been paid out by the...

SCRUTINY

A spotlight on scrutiny

By Ed Hammond | 29 August 2022

Ed Hammond looks at some of the factors that contribute to the effectiveness of scrutiny, and hig...

PAY

We need less inspection and more prevention

By Heather Jameson | 17 August 2022

Most councils have nothing to fear from plans for an Office for Local Government (Oflog), says He...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Oflog bandwagon rolls

By Dan Peters | 17 August 2022

Large-scale drive begins for local government office despite current squeeze on civil service rec...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Government launches peer review survey

By Paul Marinko | 15 August 2022

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC) has launched a survey into the L...

BUSINESS RATES

We need commitment over funding reform timetables

09 August 2022

Tracy Bingham hopes the two-year funding settlement will still happen - 'but we need to know what...

WHITEHALL

MPs call for return of hybrid council meetings

By Dan Peters | 08 August 2022

A cross-party coalition of MPs has called for the power for local authorities to hold hybrid coun...

BUSINESS

How to be sure when you procure

By David Bemrose | 08 August 2022

David Bemrose highlights the key aspects of the Crown Commercial Service’s new Contract Managemen...

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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