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FINANCE
How to create the winning team
By Claire Mansfield | 29 June 2016
The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has produced research on the relationship between council...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Groundbreaking work on child safeguarding
By Sue Williams | 29 June 2016
Sue Williams explains how Hertfordshire CC used support from the Government’s Innovation Fund to ...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Open scrutiny on government interventions
By Dan Peters | 29 June 2016
Dan Peters examines government intervention in children’s services and asks whether greater trans...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Officers could be identified under future Ofsted rules
By Sam Clayden | 28 June 2016
Poor performing local authority chief executives and their management teams could be named and sh...
SCRUTINY
Council 'failed' to safeguard taxi passengers
By Laura Sharman | 23 June 2016
South Ribble Council had failed to make the safety of taxi passengers a priority when issuing lic...
EDUCATION
Locking out council expertise from schools?
By John O’Brien | 21 June 2016
John O'Brien says local government must ensure improvement in education, no matter who is respons...
FINANCE
Details of £300m grant 'not in the public interest'
By Dan Peters | 21 June 2016
The Government has refused to publish key details about how its £300m transitional grant was allo...
FINANCE
The dog that did not bark
By Graham Chapman | 21 June 2016
After his FOI request on government funding to councils was blocked, Graham Chapman says serious ...
AUDIT
Auditor reports governance failings at Derby City Council
By Sam Clayden | 16 June 2016
Auditor Grant Thornton has highlighted 'significant' governance failings at Derby City Council be...
ELECTIONS
London Assembly to probe Barnet election failings
By Sam Clayden | 15 June 2016
The London Assembly has announced plans to probe the local election day failures in Barnet.
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Executive Director of Transport
£128,216 – £156,241
Getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Moving Apply for this job
Assistant Director – Children and Families
£80,995 - £86,757
Our promise to Sheffield’s children and young people is that Sheffield will be a place where they belong, Apply for this job
Assistant Director of City Transport
£ to match our ambition
You’ll keep abreast of emerging approaches and best practice Apply for this job
- Council backlash over asylum reforms
- EXCLUSIVE: LGA reduces transparency of key meeting
- Local government leaders must connect the council financial crisis to lived experience
- Exclusive: Councils must be made an equal partner in designing a national care system, says Casey
- Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care
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