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LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Ministerial meddling and the four-day working week

By Professor Jonathan Davies | 11 July 2023

For elite politicians, rational, democratic and forward-looking experiments such as the four-day ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Council leader seeks meeting with ministers over order to end four-day week

By Ann McGauran | 03 July 2023

The leader of the council ordered by local government minister Lee Rowley to halt its four-day we...

RECRUITMENT

MP hits out at council's proposals to extend four-day week trial

By Ann McGauran | 15 May 2023

A Conservative MP today hit out at proposals by a district council to approve an extension to a f...

RECRUITMENT

Performance broadly maintained in first council four-day week pilot

By Ann McGauran | 09 March 2023

Early data from the first four-day week pilot at an English local authority is leading to a step ...

PAY

Why a four-day week works

By Cllr Bridget Smith | 07 March 2023

The early performance data from South Cambridgeshire DC’s trial of a four-day week – the first in...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Avoiding the edge

By Jonathan Carr-West | 28 June 2022

As the sector gathers this week for the LGA conference, Dr Jonathan Carr-West says it’s time to s...

TRANSFORMATION

The private sector is essential to levelling up

By Athina Agrafioti | 19 May 2022

When levelling up, government will achieve the most by enabling and empowering the private sector...

FINANCE

Getting the hybrid model right can improve our workplace culture

18 May 2022

If we can get the hybrid work model right in local government we can improve our workplace cultur...

HUMAN RESOURCES

We need to ask 'what are offices for' ?

17 August 2021

Ministers are said to be concerned that despite the easing of COVID restrictions, few staff are c...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Cities can bring economic and policy substance to the levelling up agenda

By Cllr Nick Forbes | 17 August 2021

A report from the OECD underlines that Core Cities still do not contribute their full potential t...

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frederica-diamanta

Corporate Director - Planning

£97,966 - £126,181

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Dorset Council

Director - South London Partnership

£99,084 - £116,847

South London is a place of real ambition and remarkable scale. Apply for this job

South London Partnership

Director of Transport Commissioning & Development

£131,940

It’s hard to overstate the scale of our transport ambitions. Apply for this job

Liverpool City Region

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