NEW LOCAL

Councils should 'step back' from service provision - think-tank

By William Eichler | 13 September 2018

Local authorities should shift their focus away from direct service provision and focus more on e...

FINANCE

Whiteman: NHS will benefit most from Spending Review

By Dan Peters | 09 August 2018

Councils were this week warned not to expect a significant windfall in next spring’s Spending Rev...

BUSINESS

Complex outsourcing 'not an excuse to exclude public'

By Mark Conrad | 20 July 2018

Increasingly complex modern outsourcing is not an excuse to exclude the public from the design of...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Brokenshire appoints Booth-Smith as SpAd

By Heather Jameson | 30 May 2018

Localis chief executive Liam Booth-Smith has been appointed as a special adviser to local governm...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Authoritative or bossy?

By Claire Porter | 08 March 2018

The culture shift currently underway in the local government sector is a prime opportunity to ass...

PLANNING

Councils and housing associations collaborating: More than the sum of their parts

By Lucy Terry | 06 February 2018

A joint venture between Gateshead Council and a housing association is a prime example of why the...

NEW LOCAL

Place-based policymaking post-Brexit

By Gerry Stoker | 24 January 2018

Professor Gerry Stoker argues that Britain’s challenge post-Brexit requires a new style of natio...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Three reasons why the Industrial Strategy is shortsighted

By Jessica Studdert | 27 November 2017

Jessica Studdert says the message to local government in today's Industrial Strategy white paper ...

FINANCE

We need intellectual bandwidth, capacity and resources to halt a children's crisis

By Adam Lent | 04 October 2017

A crisis is coming to children’s services and the Government has yet to acknowledge the problem, ...

WHITEHALL

Jones: Government fully committed to rates retention

By Dan Peters | 14 September 2017

Local government minister Marcus Jones has insisted the Government is ‘still fully committed to p...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Service – Social Care

G15 £63,148 - £67,058 per annum

There is an exciting opportunity within Children Social Care to join the senior management team Apply for this job

Wrexham County Borough Council

Head of Service Social Work & Specialist Support

Grade M scp 60 £72,118 - scp 64 £77,293

There couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us. Apply for this job

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

Chief Executive Officer - Housing Delivery Shared Service

£123,983 - £138,786 per annum (37 hours per week)

Premium jobBlackpool is Changing for the Better, Can You Lead Delivery of the Next Chapter? Apply for this job

Blackpool Coastal Housing