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PRODUCTIVITY

Wombledon's wry message

01 May 2024

With Westminster awash with allegations of sleaze and bullying, Parliament desperately needs peop...

HUMAN RESOURCES

How we can build an AI foundation

01 May 2024

James Johns analyses the perceived lack of trust in AI technology and says it’s time to take the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Taking the PPMA from strength to strength

26 April 2024

New president Pam Parkes shares her vision for the PPMA, and sets out the seven areas she will fo...

FINANCE

Productivity matters

By Nicole Wood | 23 April 2024

Nicole Wood says the sector 'can and should bring our corporate, digital, people and commercial c...

AUDIT

Minister rules out Oflog role on audit

By Martin Ford | 23 April 2024

A minister has quashed suggestions oversight of audit should be handed to the Office for Local Go...

WHITEHALL

Whiteman criticises lack of prevention focus in productivity demands

By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024

Some ministerial productivity demands are ‘populist nonsense’ more likely to appear in election c...

WHITEHALL

Ministers in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

By Heather Jameson | 16 April 2024

The letter on councils’ productivity, sent by local government minister Simon Hoare this week, bo...

WHITEHALL

Councils hit with new productivity demands

By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024

Ministers have demanded councils improve their productivity in the same week as the Government qu...

FINANCE

Bridging the budget gap

By Tracie Langley | 10 April 2024

We haven’t even closed down the 2023-24 accounts yet and we are already starting to plan our 2025...

WHITEHALL

The dead hand of centralism holds back productivity

By Ian Miller | 20 March 2024

If councils had the tools, most if not all of them could by now have set fees to recover the full...

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frederica-diamanta

Greenspaces and Projects Manager

Up to £54k

It's a fantastic opportunity to take on a varied management role. Apply for this job

Dacorum Borough Council

Head of Neighbourhood Services

Up to £83k (inc. market supplement)

It's a role that will suit someone with the right level of professional knowledge, acquired through study or career experience. Apply for this job

Dacorum Borough Council

Head of Service - Assessment & Intervention

£62,474 - £73,056 plus a Market Rate Supplement

Join a creative, forward-thinking senior leadership team within Children and Families at Kirklees Council. Apply for this job

Kirklees Metropolitan Council