Management

By Richard Stokoe | 14 April 2020

The importance to councils of outstanding internal communications cannot be underestimated during...

Council taking too long to tackle 'critical weaknesses'

By Dan Peters | 12 March 2020

Gloucestershire CC is taking ‘too long to address critical weaknesses’ identified by inspectors t...

MANAGEMENT

Smashing the communication silence

By Rebecca Davis | 19 February 2020

Rebecca Davis examines the need for communication, dialogue and trust within organisations and ho...

DIGITAL

Predicting the workplace of 2021 (and beyond)

By Dr Nicola Millard | 19 February 2020

In a lively session at The MJ’s recent Future Forum North event in Manchester Dr Nicola Millard, ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

The vitally important triangle

By Donna Hall | 19 February 2020

Donna Hall says the main role of the council chief executive is ‘always triangulation, every sin...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Be more than just good at your job

12 February 2020

Nicola McCoy Brown says that while she hadn’t reached her third decade of work ‘without knowing t...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Who you gonna call

By Blair McPherson | 10 February 2020

If an urgent problem emerges at a local authority, whose call should a senior director return fir...

MANAGEMENT

Ofsted highlights 'serious and widespread failures' at council

By Chris Mahony | 27 January 2020

Children in Middlesbrough are being left at risk for too long because of failures in practice and...

BUSINESS

Auditors in fees increase warning

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2020

Auditors have warned a number of councils that their audit fees for 2019/20 could be more than on...

BUSINESS

Council acts after planning 'collusion'

By Dan Peters | 24 January 2020

‘Swift action’ has been taken by Northumberland Council’s senior management after ‘several person...

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