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GOVERNANCE
EXCLUSIVE: McMahon to meet Sheffield leaders about committee abolition
By Dan Peters | 13 August 2025
Minister Jim McMahon has committed to meeting with Sheffield City Council’s political group leade...
TRANSPORT
MPs: Funding and powers needed to stop bus service decline
By Joe Lepper | 13 August 2025
Councils should be handed more funding and powers to halt a decline in bus services, MPs have tol...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument
By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025
Senior Whitehall mandarins have reminded councils not to use public funds to persuade residents t...
LEGAL
Council tight-lipped over monitoring officer departure
By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025
Hertfordshire’s Three Rivers DC has declined to comment on whether it paid a financial settlement...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
All of England's LRFs to take part in pandemic exercise
By Martin Ford | 11 August 2025
All of England’s Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) will take part in a simulation exercise designed ...
POLITICS
Homelessness minister quits to avoid becoming 'distraction'
By Dan Peters | 08 August 2025
Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali has quit the Government following allegations she evicted ten...
ENVIRONMENT
Not zero: Core cities admit they will fail to hit ambitious climate targets
By Dan Peters | 07 August 2025
Core cities have called for billions of pounds of investment to transition to net zero after admi...
MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG creates cohesion taskforce
By Dan Peters | 06 August 2025
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has created a taskforce to unde...
POLICY
Call for tourism tax to help reverse austerity
By Izzy Lepone | 06 August 2025
The introduction of a tourist tax would help reverse austerity’s ‘heavy toll’ on councils, the Au...
REORGANISATION
Rutland leader survives no confidence vote amid reorganisation row
By Joe Lepper | 06 August 2025
The leader of Rutland CC has survived a no confidence vote amid concerns over the local authority...
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- Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets
- Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels
- How productive is local government – and are there any savings left?
- Bringing Birmingham back from the brink
- EXCLUSIVE: London boroughs shunning fixed-term tenancies despite housing pressures
Corporate Director – Adults & Health
£176,061 – £196,002
Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job
Assistant Director, People
£89,116 - £104,843 per annum
Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job
Executive Director (Children’s Services)
up to £137,831
Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job
- Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets
- Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels
- How productive is local government – and are there any savings left?
- Bringing Birmingham back from the brink
- EXCLUSIVE: London boroughs shunning fixed-term tenancies despite housing pressures
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