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PUBLIC HEALTH
Local efforts key to COVID fight - WHO envoy
By Martin Ford | 29 October 2020
Localised action holds the key to tackling the coronavirus pandemic, a WHO envoy has said.
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Councils stare into a highly uncertain financial future
By David Phillips | 29 October 2020
Extra funding will help English councils this year, but big questions remain for 2021 and beyond,...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Reading refuses to send COVID-19 patients to care homes
By Martin Ford | 28 October 2020
Reading Council is to defy a Government order to provide care home places for Covid-19 positive p...
COMBINED AUTHORITY
Greater Manchester secures £65m lockdown fund
By Martin Ford | 27 October 2020
Mayor Andy Burnham has said he expects to get ‘at least’ £65m from the Government to support peop...
HEALTH
Two Scots councils set for level four
By Michael Burton | 27 October 2020
Two Scottish local authority areas are in line for a new severe level four lockdown according to ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
This global challenge needs a local approach
By Sir Bob Neill | 26 October 2020
Councils should be given the resource and leeway to lead the charge in the battle against COVID, ...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Barking & Dagenham offers same-day testing to key workers
By Ann McGauran | 26 October 2020
Barking & Dagenham LBC is thought to have become the first in England to set up a same-day COVID ...
LEGISLATION
Councils gain COVID enforcement powers
By Martin Ford | 23 October 2020
Councils are to be given new powers to issue businesses with improvement notices and close premis...
FINANCE
This is not devolution – this is not even centralism
By Heather Jameson | 21 October 2020
‘Once the poster-child for devolution, Manchester is now being treated as the bad boy of politics...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Trick or retreat
21 October 2020
With a resurgence of COVID-19 now in full swing, Halloween brings with it more coronavirus-relate...
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- LGA's first chair Lord Beecham dies
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- Councils can't deliver better public understanding of AI without resource
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Building Safety Regulator launches improvement plan
Head of Internal Communications
£59,526 - £74,040 per year
Southwark Council is strengthening how it communicates with staff and residents... Apply for this job
Head of Change
£69,537 - £86,766 per yea
Southwark is delivering an ambitious transformation programme to improve services and deliver financial sustainability. Apply for this job
Head of Data, Performance and Insight
£69,537 - £86,766 per year
Southwark is strengthening how it uses data, insight and performance information to support better decision-making and improve outcomes for residents. Apply for this job
- LGA's first chair Lord Beecham dies
- Corporate Peer Challenge: Going boldly on in Bristol
- Councils can't deliver better public understanding of AI without resource
- EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay
- Building Safety Regulator launches improvement plan
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