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FINANCE
Section 114s: where are we headed next?
By Rob Whiteman CBE | 31 July 2023
After a spate of councils issuing section 114 notices, Rob Whiteman looks at what has been done s...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Who would you rather was holding the mirror up to your council?
By Kathy O’Leary | 31 July 2023
The LGA has responded to criticisms of corporate peer challenges by strengthening its offer to pr...
FINANCE
There's still a long way to go to solve the audit issue
By Heather Jameson | 18 July 2023
Heather Jameson says local government minister Lee Rowley's proposals for dealing with the audit ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Time for reflection on council failures
By Graeme McDonald | 17 July 2023
We should all recognise the need to improve standards in public life more broadly, not least as l...
WHITEHALL
Call for Oflog independence
By Dan Peters | 14 July 2023
The Government should grant its new performance body Oflog the ‘independence it will need to succ...
WHITEHALL
Morse: Peer review not designed to prevent major council failure
By Dan Peters | 06 July 2023
Peer review is ‘not designed’ to prevent major council failures, the chair of the new local gover...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Oflog should be the start of trust and devolution
By Heather Jameson | 04 July 2023
Secretary of state Michael Gove launched Oflog to the Local Government Association conference. It...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Minister: Oflog won't spot every council failure
By Dan Peters | 04 July 2023
In his speech to the Local Government Association conference this week, levelling up secretary Mi...
WHITEHALL
Level measures
By Jonathan Werran | 04 July 2023
Localis’s research into the potential for public service integration to underpin the delivery of ...
LEGISLATION
Man on a mission
By Heather Jameson | 04 July 2023
The Local Government Association’s new chair Cllr Shaun Davies says the old ways of doing things ...
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Advanced Social Work Practitioner
£51,356.00 - £54,495.00, Grade 12, 37 hours, Permanent
You will be expected and enabled to contribute to workforce development and staff wellbeing. Apply for this job
Engineering Team Manager (Operational Maintenance)
Special A, SCP 42-45, £53,460 - £56,732 per annum
Premium jobThis is an exciting time to join Calderdale’s Highways Maintenance service. Apply for this job
Director of Public Health
£109,483 to £122,620
This is a rare and career-defining opportunity to shape the future of public health Apply for this job
- Former local government minister Phil Woolas dies
- Wirral management overhaul to create executive director roles
- Recruitment challenges restricting pace of Sandwell improvement, peers find
- LGA to recruit interim chief
- Whitehall thinks its expenditure should be subject to less scrutiny than the local state
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