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EDUCATION
Queen's Speech: New measures to raise education standards
By Laura Sharman | 10 May 2022
Local authorities will have a new duty to provide support to home-schooling families under new me...
QUEENS SPEECH
Queen's Speech: Mental health laws to be overhauled
By William Eichler | 10 May 2022
Government will reform mental health laws to make it harder to detain people and to stop the disp...
PLANNING
Appetite for construction?
By Jonathan Werran | 09 May 2022
The Levelling Up department’s wish to see a council housebuilding revolution will require an incr...
PLANNING
New Bill to put beauty at the heart of planning, says Gove
By Heather Jameson | 08 May 2022
The Queen’s Speech is set to include a new bill to revamp planning and kick start housebuilding, ...
COUNCILLORS
Councils must lead the way in raising standards across social housing
By Jamie Carswell | 29 June 2021
The Social Housing White Paper should be welcomed as a chance to renew council housing’s purpose ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
We are getting warmer on climate change
By Kathy O’Leary | 26 May 2021
The Government needs to apply the same problem solving to climate change as it has to tackling th...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
A nuanced approach to levelling up is needed
By Nicola Beach | 26 May 2021
As Nicola Beach becomes the chair of the Association of County Chief Executives, she looks at the...
QUEENS SPEECH
Sir Andrew Dilnot is upbeat on reform to social care
By Ann McGauran | 20 May 2021
Author of the landmark 2011 review into social care funding Sir Andrew Dilnot is upbeat about the...
HEALTH
Making 'build, build, build' a reality
17 May 2021
Having listened to the Queen’s Speech, Cllr Darren Rodwell worries the Government is ‘overly fixa...
WHITEHALL
PM dashes hopes for localism and devolution
By Heather Jameson | 12 May 2021
All hopes that prime ministers forged through local politics would be localists, sympathetic to ...
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This is an exciting time to join the Kirklees Council Development Management team. Apply for this job
Resource Manager
Grade 12 35 hours, Permanent
Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with complex Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)? Apply for this job
Programme Director (LGR Transition)
£121k – £134k (fixed term 2 years with option to extend)
Hertfordshire is embarking on one of the most significant transformations in its public services for a generation. Apply for this job
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