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SOCIAL CARE

Online tool helps residents assess likely care costs

By Anton Hodge | 20 January 2020

Anton Hodge describes how a new online tool to help people assess the likely cost of adult social...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

An efficient collaboration

By Victoria Gould | 15 January 2020

Victoria Gould of Warwickshire CC’s award-winning Young People Legal Service team (YPLS) explains...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Roney warns against complacency after damning review

By Mark Conrad | 14 January 2020

Manchester City Council’s chief executive has insisted the authority will not be complacent about...

WHITEHALL

Government social care plans to be published this year - Johnson

By Mark Conrad | 14 January 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson today vowed to publish the Government’s long-awaited social care pla...

SOCIAL CARE

£12m cash boost for council care workers

By Ann McGauran | 10 January 2020

A council plans to put an extra £12m in the hands of its 30,000 care workers by adding two per ce...

FINANCE

Councils are faring well on finance

By Heather Jameson | 09 January 2020

Last month, CIPFA published its resilience index tool – and the picture for local government is b...

FINANCE

Stoke-on-Trent warns of job cuts

By Martin Ford | 06 January 2020

The council is aiming to make £9.2m of savings next year.

WHITEHALL

LGA care talks offer rejected

By Martin Ford | 02 January 2020

The Government has declined an offer by the Local Government Association (LGA) to host talks on h...

SOCIAL CARE

'Ambitious programme of domestic reform' promised in Queen's Speech

By Dan Peters | 19 December 2019

The second Queen’s Speech in almost as many months has promised an ‘ambitious programme of domest...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Local government are the systems thinkers and the time to act is now

18 December 2019

Systems thinking - considering the whole, not just the parts, and how those parts interact - bri...

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Partnership and Improvement Manager SEND WMF2888e

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frederica-diamanta

Director Children’s Social Care (Family Help and Safeguarding)

£104,196 (plus pay award pending)

You’ll join a supportive and ambitious leadership environment, with strong corporate Apply for this job

Swindon Borough Council

Assistant Director Housing

£111,533 to £119,774 plus relocation support

Housing is one of the most high profile and closely scrutinised areas in local government Apply for this job

North Yorkshire Council

Partnership and Improvement Manager SEND WMF2888e

£51,356 to £52,413

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)? Apply for this job

Westmorland and Furness Council

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