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FINANCE

Gauging the benefit of productivity plans

By Abdool Kara | 30 April 2024

At the least the new Government requirement for productivity plans will give a platform for autho...

WHITEHALL

NAO warning over childcare reforms

By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024

Just one in 10 councils predict they will meet the deadline to create 85,000 Government-funded ch...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

41st time lucky?

22 April 2024

After four decades of different initiatives which have failed to boost growth, Professor Martin J...

WHITEHALL

Hopes for regen scheme revived after Home Office scales back asylum plan

By Mark Conrad | 20 March 2024

A £300m council-led regeneration scheme threatened when Whitehall commandeered the site for asylu...

FINANCE

Homelessness inquiry launched by NAO

By Dan Peters | 13 March 2024

The National Audit Office (NAO) has launched an inquiry into homelessness as the issue piles pres...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

Time for change: An early review for the Code of Audit Practice

By Mike Newbury | 13 February 2024

Change is needed now to resolve the broader problems in the local audit market, and together with...

WHITEHALL

Tackling homelessness

By Paul Marinko | 05 February 2024

Homelessness is piling pressure on squeezed council budgets. The MJ and the National Audit Office...

FINANCE

NAO issues wake-up call

By Martin Ford | 17 January 2024

The National Audit Office (NAO) chief’s warnings to Whitehall over governance are a wake-up call ...

DIGITAL

Radical overhaul required to drag us into the 21st century

By Heather Jameson | 17 January 2024

From central government and the NHS, to police, prisons and local government: the ‘state of the s...

FINANCE

Audit reset to trigger slew of qualified and disclaimed opinions

By Martin Ford | 10 January 2024

The auditor general has warned of qualified and disclaimed audits being issued ahead of a reset t...

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Development Management Service Manager - WMF2347e

£65,873 - £68,775

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Westmorland and Furness Council

Director of Children's Services

£123,550 pa

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North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

Assistant Director for Corporate Parenting

£88,225 - £105,726 per annum

This is a time of exciting and positive change in Suffolk. Apply for this job

Suffolk County Council

frederica-diamanta

Development Management Service Manager - WMF2347e

£65,873 - £68,775

The Development Management service plays a vital role in shaping the built environment. Apply for this job

Westmorland and Furness Council

Director of Children's Services

£123,550 pa

We are looking for a visionary and values-driven Director of Children's Services Apply for this job

North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

Assistant Director for Corporate Parenting

£88,225 - £105,726 per annum

This is a time of exciting and positive change in Suffolk. Apply for this job

Suffolk County Council