Partnerships

Latest Partnerships

PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM

People, purpose and power for a new era

By Rebecca Murphy | 03 April 2025

New partnership approaches are needed to tackle the challenges at the heart of local government, say Alison McKenzie-Folan and Rebecca Murphy

PERFORMANCE

Up and away

By Ann McGauran | 01 April 2025

St Helens MBC’s corporate peer challenge will deliver good news for the council’s retiring chief ...

FINANCE

Selling the family silver

By Emily Twinch | 24 March 2025

Heritage assets can cost councils hundreds of thousands of pounds to maintain, and with times as ...

DEVOLUTION

Connecting the dots across a new landscape

By Elle Dodd | 27 February 2025

Elle Dodd offers a vision of the collaborative relationships, partnerships and leadership needed ...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

The way to shape better futures

By Nigel Minns | 11 February 2025

Warwickshire’s participation in the Families First for Children Pathfinder Programme has provided...

Keeping people at the heart of everything

By Maxine O’Mahony | 24 January 2025

Against the backdrop of continued debates about structure and governance it is crucial we in the ...

PARTNERSHIPS

Pandora's box and the challenge of forming effective partnerships

By Nathan Elvery | 20 January 2025

Nathan Elvery looks at how to create and build effective partnerships in an increasingly complex...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Evolution through devolution

By Neil Blagburn | 16 January 2025

The council-led delivery of the Northumberland Line could inspire local authorities to take the l...

HEALTH

Tackling inequality through physical activity in Cornwall

By Craig Handford | 16 January 2025

A project aimed at better understanding the contribution of physical activity in helping to chang...

PLACE-MAKING

Rallying for a more balanced Britain

By Susan Jarvis | 20 December 2024

The mayors of Liverpool and Manchester’s ambition for the two city regions to work more closely t...

COMMUNITIES

Effective partnership working on temporary housing is crucial

By Sheila Oxtoby | 03 December 2024

Sheila Oxtoby says: 'If vulnerable homeless people or others who require temporary housing are to...

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Westmorland and Furness Council

Highways Capital Delivery Manager

£50,788 - £52,805

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South Wales Trunk Road Agent

Chief Innovation and Commercial Officer

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Cumberland Council