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FINANCE

LGO: New ombudsman should have beefed up powers

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has called for a new public services ombudsman to be given p...

HEALTH

Call for Better Care Fund 'on steroids' but uncertainty remains

By Dan Peters | 17 June 2015

Senior officials leading national work on the Better Care Fund (BCF) are in the dark about the Go...

HEALTH

99% confidence rate sounds strangely Soviet

By Andrew Kaye | 12 June 2015

There are reports from the National Audit Office (NAO) that have government ministers quaking in ...

WHITEHALL

Time to turn the tide on data

By Heather Jameson | 11 June 2015

As the National Audit Office (NAO) release two reports today, it comes to a conclusion that will ...

WHITEHALL

DCLG needs better data on new burdens, says NAO

By Heather Jameson | 11 June 2015

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) ‘needs to use its intelligence better’...

HEALTH

NAO warning over Care Act cash shortfall

By Heather Jameson | 10 June 2015

Councils are at risk of a funding shortfall for the Care Act as the Government may have underesti...

WHITEHALL

How do we bridge the accountability gap?

By Heather Jameson | 09 June 2015

Tempting as it is to argue for a free local government, unchained from the shackles of central co...

DCLG

DCLG has no plans to cut number of LEPs

By Dan Peters | 09 June 2015

Ministers have ‘no plans’ to reduce the number of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), the Depar...

FINANCE

Calls grow for finance system reform

By Dan Peters | 27 May 2015

The new ministerial line up at Marsham Street should simplify the ‘complicated’ local government ...

WHITEHALL

Deal me in

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2015

Dan Peters talked with senior council chiefs to learn how the previous wave of City Deals fell sh...

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Chief Executive

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Ebbsfleet Development Corporation

Assistant Director Strategy & Community Regeneration

£100,592 - £106,591 per annum

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Newcastle City Council

Service Manager – Commercial Development

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Ashfield District Council