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FINANCE
OBR: Council borrowing for capital to halve
By Michael Burton | 08 March 2024
Council borrowing for capital projects is expected to almost halve due to curbs on commercial loa...
FINANCE
Daring to be bold
By Piali Das Gupta | 06 March 2024
The MJ’s series on building a new vision for local government, drawing from the 2007 Lyons Review...
SOCIAL CARE
National care service overhaul fails to charm councils
By Martin Ford | 28 February 2024
Councils in Scotland remain unconvinced by proposals to create a national care service.
FINANCE
14 councils 'likely' to issue s114s next year
By Ellie Ames | 28 February 2024
More than half of councils are likely to issue a section 114 notice within the next Parliament un...
SOCIAL CARE
Two-thirds of councils to cut neighbourhood services
By Ellie Ames | 27 February 2024
Community services will have to be ‘drastically scaled back’ or cut altogether without further fu...
SOCIAL CARE
Ofsted rates Havering's children's services inadequate
By Dan Peters | 16 February 2024
Havering LBC’s children’s services have been rated inadequate by Government regulator Ofsted afte...
HEALTH
Creating a Centre for Population Health
By Durka Dougall | 13 February 2024
Professor Durka Dougall explains how the Centre for Population Health can support health and care...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Warwickshire probe over councillor SEND comments
By William Eichler | 07 February 2024
Warwickshire CC has launched an investigation after a video showed councillors making disparaging...
SOCIAL CARE
Former social care chief sentenced for drug offences
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2024
An ex-deputy director of social care at Bradford MDC has been sentenced after pleading guilty to ...
FINANCE
MPs demand fundamental reform of council funding
By Martin Ford | 31 January 2024
The Government has been urged by a cross-party committee of MPs to address the ‘out-of-control fi...
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- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- The MJ crowns Local Authority of the Year
Director of Legal and Governance
£109,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Finance
£131,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
£108,015 - £118,000 pa
Operational leadership that turns strategy into reality. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- The MJ crowns Local Authority of the Year
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